TeraByte Unlimited

I just got a new laptop with UEFI and GPT partitions and I wanted to image it before doing anything much on it. I had run Windows 8.1 once and disabled fast boot. I wanted to make as few changes to the setup as possible so I just disabled secure boot but left it in UEFI mode.

Up to now I had only used legacy and MBR. After reading on the TB forums I decided to try IFL GUI for the first time. I was much impressed by the "eye-candy" of the modern interface with it's Apple like tray at the top and also the range of tools on this. Unfortunately I couldn't get it to make a copy of the system on an external drive. At first it said there were problems with the external drive and I needed to run chkdsk -f. So I attached the external drive to a Windows system, deleted the volume then recreated one and formatted it.

When I got back to IFL and tried again it said there was no free space on the drive. Next time I tried it, it said unable to write to /dex-0.tbi. This doesn't seem right - although dex was the file name I chose, it seemed to imply it was trying to create a file on the root of the Linux system, which was on a separate USB stick.

I gave up and set the laptop into legacy mode, booted up IFD GUI via USB stick and it's now recording on the USB external drive quite happily (fortunately).

It's a pity I couldn't get IFL to work as it seems potentially a great tool. Maybe it's a bit early in its development and is more buggy than IFD?

You can boot IFL CUI version which has an interface you're more familiar
with.

But, sounds more like something else was up, because it doesn't complain
about the target saying chkdsk is needed, it would say that is needed if you
copied with scaling and the source partitions needed chkdsk /f (since it
copes form the source to the target, then resizes). Yes, saving to the root
via File (OS) would cause it to run out of space. When you select your
target it will show you the free space.


"rustleg" wrote in message news:[email protected]...

I just got a new laptop with UEFI and GPT partitions and I wanted to image
it before doing anything much on it. I had run Windows 8.1 once and disabled
fast boot. I wanted to make as few changes to the setup as possible so I
just disabled secure boot but left it in UEFI mode.

Up to now I had only used legacy and MBR. After reading on the TB forums I
decided to try IFL GUI for the first time. I was much impressed by the
"eye-candy" of the modern interface with it's Apple like tray at the top and
also the range of tools on this. Unfortunately I couldn't get it to make a
copy of the system on an external drive. At first it said there were
problems with the external drive and I needed to run chkdsk -f. So I
attached the external drive to a Windows system, deleted the volume then
recreated one and formatted it.

When I got back to IFL and tried again it said there was no free space on
the drive. Next time I tried it, it said unable to write to /dex-0.tbi. This
doesn't seem right - although dex was the file name I chose, it seemed to
imply it was trying to create a file on the root of the Linux system, which
was on a separate USB stick.

I gave up and set the laptop into legacy mode, booted up IFD GUI via USB
stick and it's now recording on the USB external drive quite happily
(fortunately).

It's a pity I couldn't get IFL to work as it seems potentially a great tool.
Maybe it's a bit early in its development and is more buggy than IFD?