I was introduced to TeraByte Unlimited by Fred Langa a couple of decades ago through my subscription to The LangaList. In one issue Fred sang the praises of BootIt Next Generation, AKA BootIt NG. The program fit on a 1.44MB floppy disk, and would launch and run from that floppy. It was a partitioning tool that also included drive/partition imaging. I downloaded the thirty-day fully functional free trial, then paid for it after about three days.
I was then, as I still am, tinkerin’ with Windows innards in order to get Windows to do what I wanted it to do rather than what Microsoft wanted me to do with Windows. Making frequent and byte-for-byte verified drive/partition images allowed me to quickly return to my last working configuration, rather than having to start all over again.
Over the years TeraByte ported Image for Windows into its own utility just for drive/partition imaging. BootIt NG still worked as always except that the imaging software was removed. Through the years Image for Windows has, in my experience, made steady, useful, incremental improvements in the UI and under the hood, making it both easier to use and faster in creating images.
I haven’t tried any other partitioning tool, nor any other drive/partition imaging tool in all these years, because I haven’t seen any reason to do so. On various Windows help sights I have seen posts on how to correct problems with other imaging software, but I don’t recall seeing anyone complain about Image for Windows.
TeraByte has an active user forum that is regularly attended by TeraByte employees. I haven’t had any particular issues with imaging, but I have had an occasional question about scripting for Task Scheduling, and they are quick to answer. Either late last year or early this year, a Utilities button was added to the launch screen, making operations like adding Image for Windows to the Windows Recovery Environment, creating a Recovery USB drive, and creating scheduled tasks to be run by Task Scheduler simple and easy.
TeraByte also has BootIt UEFI which, once again, includes drive/partition imaging. It uses the same imaging technology/format as Image for Windows, can create and restore images and also restore Image for Windows image files.
