Can IFW expand and restore to a BIBM sized partition?

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Can IFW expand and restore to a BIBM sized partition?

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I have read my manual several times and can't figure out how to restore an image to a disk that is taken care of by BIBM. The image I have is smaller than the partition I have newly created with BIBM and I would like to restore the image to the partition without having to go into BIBM and increase the size of the restored image because it was smaller than what I now need. (I know, I'm lazy).

It sure would be nice if IFW inspected the BIBM settings and then gave you the choice to expand the image upon it's restore so that it filled the newly sized partition on the disk. Failing that could an example be included in the next IFW User Guide that would explain this process?

Thanks!
Brian K
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Re: Can IFW expand and restore to a BIBM sized partition?

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plain wrote:
>
> It sure would be nice if IFW inspected the BIBM settings and then gave you
> the choice to expand the image upon it's restore so that it filled the
> newly sized partition on the disk.

plain,

It does that. On the IFW Options screen, Resize Partition section, you can choose anything between Min and Max values. You want Max.
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Re: Can IFW expand and restore to a BIBM sized partition?

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plain wrote:
> The image I have is smaller than the partition I have newly created with BIBM

Perhaps I am out of date, but I was under the impression that BIBM partition images can be restored only to unpartitioned space on the disk. In other words, it is a mistake to create an empty partition into which you want to restore the partition image. Has that changed with recent versions of BIBM?

-- from CyberSimian in the UK
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Re: Can IFW expand and restore to a BIBM sized partition?

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Thank You Brian I will investigate..

CyberSimian I never use BIBM to make or restore an image so I wouldn't know the answer here. I only use IFW either in Windows or on a WinPE DVD and have never tried to restore a partition to the frontier. Only to partitions I created in BIBM or that were created by Windows.
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Re: Can IFW expand and restore to a BIBM sized partition?

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Brian Thanks:
Yes things worked just as you said. The last time I restored this image IFW for some reason showed the maximum partition size as the size of the image when I captured it.. 75Gig. The only thing I can think of is when I expanded the partition in BIBM I didn't reboot? Other than that error on my part I don't know why things were as they were at that time.

Anyway, I can go back to being lazy now. I appreciate your help.
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Re: Can IFW expand and restore to a BIBM sized partition?

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On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 02:11:25 PST, just as I was about to take a herb,
CyberSimian disturbed my reverie and wrote:

>Perhaps I am out of date, but I was under the impression that BIBM partition images can be restored only to unpartitioned space on the disk

BIBM images are not special nor different from any other "Image
for..." product. The image files can be used and manipulated by all
the Image programs as they are cross-compatible.

You can restore either to an empty space or the originally backed up
partition. So, if I backup partition "wizzbang", I can either restore
to "wizzbang", the source partition, or create a copy by restoring to
empty space.

I use IfW and IfL. IfD, the version in BIBM, is the slowest on my PCs.
--
Cheers,

DrT

** Amateurs built the Ark, but professionals built the Titanic.**
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Re: Can IFW expand and restore to a BIBM sized partition?

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Yes, out of date, that was BING with the image option built-in to partition
work.

"CyberSimian" wrote in message news:16710@public.image...

>Perhaps I am out of date, but I was under the impression that BIBM
>partition images can be restored only to unpartitioned space on the
>isk. -- from CyberSimian in the UK

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Re: Can IFW expand and restore to a BIBM sized partition?

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plain wrote:
>
> Anyway, I can go back to being lazy now.

plain,

You can be even lazier next time. There is no need to create a partition to restore your image into. Just restore your image into Free Space. You can still use the resizing numbers.
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Re: Can IFW expand and restore to a BIBM sized partition?

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So I was going to restore the 75G partition image again to the 100G partition and on the page where you enter your desired image size IFW again said my max was 75G and some change. ?? I don't get it. But I went ahead and entered 100G and IFW accepted this number. I know I know it isn't a big deal but curious nonetheless.
When you restore to unpartitioned space 'frontier' does the image leave any unpartitioned space between itself and the other partitions? I didn't realize this feature was available. Thanks Brian, I will try it out.
And yes, Dr. Teeth IFD on Bootit Baremetal is slooowwww for me too.

Now I have another question for a new post..
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Re: Can IFW expand and restore to a BIBM sized partition?

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plain wrote:

> When you restore to unpartitioned space 'frontier' does the image leave any
> unpartitioned space between itself and the other partitions?

plain, let's say you have a 40 GB partition. You image this partition., You then restore the image to 100 GB of Free Space. The restored partition will be 40 GB, the same as the original. But you can use Min/Max to get a different result.
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