Customizing USB bootable IFL/TBWinRE

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[Kempy]

Hi,

please identify if your are on a EFI system or Bios/Bios-CSM.

The best tool I found for booting multiple ISO's (WinPE and Linux) for multi systems (EFI and Bios/Bios-CSM) from the same USB-Stick is called WinSetupFromUSB.

That will boot WinPE based ISO's via BCD/Windows boot manager on EFI and Bios/Bios-CSM systems (there are two BCD's on the USB-Stick; one for EFI and one for Bios/Bios-CSM booting) and Linux ISO's via grub4dos on Bios/Bios-CSM systems (grub4dos is currently not EFI capable).

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Another thing I found is how to get IFW as fast as IFL in backup-speed for offline backups when the target drive is connected via USB3.0

You will need to integrate IFW into a winbuilder based ISO (to have access to the windows device manager) and switch on windows write-cache and drives write-cache (both caches are off by default for USB connected drives and on for internal/external drives connected via SATA/eSATA) for the target drive in the windows device manager.
That will speed-up IFW's backup speed.
My test setup, winbuilder W10-x64 based ISO with IFW 3.04, went from 10:23min (internal M.2 SDD to external USB3.0/UASP 2.5" HDD, cache switches off/off, bfb validation) to 3:47min (cache switches on/on, bfb validation).
For comparison, TBWinPE (W10PE-x64 based ISO, IFW3.04 x64), took 11:49min for the same offline backup task.

@Terabyte
Perhaps it is possible to switch on windows write-cache and drives write-cache for USB connected drives by default via windows reg-key in TBWinPE/TBWinRE builds ?, it seems Windows PE can handle that.

G.

[Brian K]

Kempy wrote:
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> Another thing I found is how to get IFW as fast as IFD in backup-speed for
> offline backups when the target drive is connected via USB3.0
>


Kempy, do you mean IFL instead of IFD?

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@Kempy. I'm on Bios/Bios-CSM.

From the YouTube video @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOxybrlqlRY WinSetupFromUSB seems similar to YUMI. Looks like it has a much better USB disk creation user interface but, unfortunately, produces a similarly graphics-challenged user interface on the actual bootdisk

For what it's worth, I have found that emergency boot and save image times are quickest with:

A Lexar 1066x or higher compact flash dives with a USB 3.0 reader (They are much faster than garden variety SD or Micro SD cards. I've also tried Sandisk CF but they seem to fail at a higher rate than Lexar)

[Kempy]

Brian K wrote:
> Kempy wrote:
> >
> > Another thing I found is how to get IFW as fast as IFD in backup-speed for
> > offline backups when the target drive is connected via USB3.0
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>
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> Kempy, do you mean IFL instead of IFD?

You are right, IFL, just corrected.

G.