Hardware Independent Imaging....
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Hardware Independent Imaging....
i need to do hardware independent imaging as looking after so many hardware is doing my head in. basically what i am looking for is one master image that can go into 3 different hardware (desktop).
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What operating system is this? IIRC Vista's HAL will adapt when being imaged, I havent experienced this first hand however.
What do you use to clone them, in my support days I would use Barts PE with the corporate version of ghost on it with all the network drivers loaded in then on the XP image
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when making the xp image extract those driverpacks to c:\sysprep\drivers
then use this tool to put all the drivers into a database
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then sysprep the image
when the image is downloaded onto another desktop it installs all the drivers from the database. The guide on the vernalex site states to alter the HAL but I found it will switch from single core to multicore but not the other way around, so I built the image on a low spec machine
What do you use to clone them, in my support days I would use Barts PE with the corporate version of ghost on it with all the network drivers loaded in then on the XP image
Latest DriverPacks | DriverPacks.net
when making the xp image extract those driverpacks to c:\sysprep\drivers
then use this tool to put all the drivers into a database
Vernalex.com - Welcome
then sysprep the image
when the image is downloaded onto another desktop it installs all the drivers from the database. The guide on the vernalex site states to alter the HAL but I found it will switch from single core to multicore but not the other way around, so I built the image on a low spec machine
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some other alternatives
PING (Partimage Is Not Ghost)
DriveImage XML Backup Software - Data Recovery Product
PING (Partimage Is Not Ghost)
DriveImage XML Backup Software - Data Recovery Product
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Try www.hardware-independent.com. It is designed for medium and large businesses (100+ units) not for a single PC.
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I haven't in the past to be honest, people also say stopping services can help with it and whatever account you use to sysprep gets copied to default user so set up any desktop shortcuts etc with that account and clean out temp files etc
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a hot fix was available to revert back to usual operation
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/887816
I consulted on a "gold" image (windows XP) for a large educational instruction a few years ago
I built one base image that could be rolled out to 3000 clients of 20 different hardware types
the technology was basically a stripped OS install (with a Device driver library)
and a heavily modified sysprep file
I suspect technology has moved on now though
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