{"id":45,"date":"2004-07-31T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-01T00:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/what-is-image-for-windows\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T16:21:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T00:21:27","slug":"what-is-image-for-windows","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/what-is-image-for-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Image for Windows?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Image for Windows (IFW) is a program for creating and restoring images of partitions. It offers all the conveniences and advantages of running from within the Windows environment. IFW runs under all versions of Win9x\/Me, WinNT\/2K\/XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7\/8.x\/10\/11.<\/p>\r\n<p>Every purchase of IFW also includes a copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/image-for-dos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Image for DOS<\/a> (IFD), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/image-for-linux\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Image for Linux<\/a> (IFL), and Image for UEFI (IFU).<\/p>\r\n<p>IFW can be run:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Interactively, using simple wizard-driven options<\/li>\r\n\t<li>From the command line<\/li>\r\n\t<li>From batch files<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Additional information can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/image-for-windows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Image for Windows product page<\/a>\u00a0on the website and in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/downloads\/ifw_en_manual.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Image for Windows manual<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image for Windows (IFW) is a program for creating and restoring images of partitions. It offers all the conveniences and advantages of running from within the Windows environment. IFW runs under all versions of Win9x\/Me, WinNT\/2K\/XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7\/8.x\/10\/11. Every purchase of IFW also includes a copy of Image for DOS (IFD), Image [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1777],"lsvr_kba_tag":[2121],"class_list":["post-45","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-faq-image-for-windows","lsvr_kba_tag-image-for-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsvr_kba"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7300,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/45\/revisions\/7300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}