{"id":373,"date":"2008-12-01T23:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T07:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/how-to-perform-an-unattended-installation-of-image-for-windows\/"},"modified":"2021-09-10T22:51:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T05:51:00","slug":"how-to-perform-an-unattended-installation-of-image-for-windows","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/how-to-perform-an-unattended-installation-of-image-for-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Perform an Unattended Installation of Image for Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To perform an unattended installation of Image for Windows:<\/p>\r\n<ol>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/downloads-image-for-windows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download Image for Windows<\/a>.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Open a command prompt window. If UAC is enabled in Windows and you don't want the installer to trigger the UAC prompt, open an Administrator Command Prompt.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Navigate to the folder where the Image for Windows installer is located. The folder <span style=\"color: #008800; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\"><strong>D:&#92;Temp<\/strong><\/span> will be used in this example. To change the current directory, issue the applicable <span style=\"color: #008800; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\"><strong>cd<\/strong><\/span> command. \u00a0Following this example, you would enter the command:<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<span style=\"color: #008800; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\"><strong>cd \/d \"D:&#92;Temp\"<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Depending on how you would like the\u00a0installation to proceed, enter a command similar to one of the following in the Command Prompt window:<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<ul type=\"disc\">\r\n\t<li><strong>Note:<\/strong> The installation program filename will vary depending on which Image for Windows package you have downloaded. The installers for the purchased version are shown here:<br \/>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0terabyte_drive_image_backup_and_restore_suite_en_gui.exe<br \/>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0terabyte_drive_image_backup_and_restore_suite_en_cui.exe<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Note:<\/strong> Program defaults will be used if it's a clean install. This includes <em>Simple Operations<\/em> mode being enabled. Depending on the options you want, you may need to first do a normal install and select those options, which will then be used by future silent installs.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<ol type=\"a\">\r\n\t<li>Using the <span style=\"color: #008800; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\"><strong>\/silent<\/strong><\/span> option (command should all be on one line):<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<span style=\"color: #008800; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\"><strong>terabyte_drive_image_backup_and_restore_suite_en_gui.exe \/silent<br \/>\r\n<\/strong> <\/span><br \/>\r\nIf you will be running setup from a .CMD\/.BAT script and don't want the Command Prompt window remaining open during the installation process, run the command as follows using the START command (command should all be on one line):<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<span style=\"color: #008800; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\"><strong>start \"\" \"D:&#92;Temp&#92;terabyte_drive_image_backup_and_restore_suite_en_gui.exe\" \/silent<br \/>\r\n<\/strong> <\/span><br \/>\r\nThe <span style=\"color: #008800; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\"><strong>\/silent <\/strong><\/span>parameter will cause setup to run with a progress bar shown. You will be prompted to reboot at the end of setup, if a reboot is necessary.<em>\u00a0<\/em> <br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Using the <span style=\"color: #008800; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\"><strong>\/verysilent<\/strong><\/span> option (command should all be on one line):<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<span style=\"color: #008800; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\"><strong>terabyte_drive_image_backup_and_restore_suite_en_gui.exe \/verysilent<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nIf you will be running setup from a .CMD\/.BAT script and don't want the Command Prompt window remaining open during the installation process, run the command as follows using the START command (command should all be on one line):<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<span style=\"color: #008800; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\"><strong>start \"\" \"D:&#92;Temp&#92;terabyte_drive_image_backup_and_restore_suite_en_gui.exe\" \/verysilent<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nThe <span style=\"color: #008800; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\"><strong>\/verysilent <\/strong><\/span>parameter will cause setup to run with no progress bar shown. You will <em>not<\/em> be prompted to reboot at the end of setup if a reboot is necessary (the system will restart automatically).<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t<li>If either the TBIView installer or the TBOSDT installer are displayed the unattended install will not be able to complete silently (the installer remembers the options selected on the last manual run).\u00a0You will need to reconfigure the installer to run without showing the TBIView and TBOSDT install wizards. This can be accomplished by doing one of the following:<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Reinstall Image for Windows using the setup wizard and unselect the <strong>Show TBIView Setup Wizard<\/strong> and <strong>Show TBOSDT Setup Wizard<\/strong> options. <br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Using the Command Prompt, perform a silent uninstall and then reinstall:\r\n\r\n<ol type=\"a\">\r\n\t<li>Save your IFW.INI file (located in the IFW installation folder)<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Run <span style=\"color: #008800; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\"><strong>unins000.exe \/silent<\/strong><\/span> (located in the IFW installation folder)<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Run install command (should all be on one line)<br \/>\r\n<span style=\"color: #008800; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\"><strong>terabyte_drive_image_backup_and_restore_suite_en_gui.exe \/silent<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li>Restore your IFW.INI file<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p>More information on the command line parameters available for the installer can be found here:<br \/>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/jrsoftware.org\/ishelp\/index.php?topic=setupcmdline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/jrsoftware.org\/ishelp\/index.php?topic=setupcmdline<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To perform an unattended installation of Image for Windows: Download Image for Windows. Open a command prompt window. If UAC is enabled in Windows and you don&#8217;t want the installer to trigger the UAC prompt, open an Administrator Command Prompt. Navigate to the folder where the Image for Windows installer is located. 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