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FOG to deploy only the first partition of HDD
i am using FOG (free opensource ghost) for cloning computers
i want to image only the first partition of my HDD which would be my system drive c:
i have tried all the options size ...
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Software solution for duplicating files to multiple USB flash drives simultaneously [closed]
We are distributing data to hundreds of customers using USB flash drives.
There are expensive hardware solutions to duplicate USB flash drives.
Is there any cheap software alternative using a ...
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How can I retrieve statistics from my ghost cast server?
I have a GhostCast server running for deploying images. I would like to have each ghost cast session to write to a file ( can be multiple text files or append to one file already there ) statistics. ...
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How to prepare computers for donation
We are decommissioning around 40 Dell desktops. We would like to donate them but drives need to be wiped. What's the best approach to wipe them all as efficiently as possible?
Is it standard practice ...
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Booting to non-default NetBoot?
Is is possible to script the bless command to have the computer boot to a specific Netboot set that is not the default?
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How to fix 7B stop errors when cloning Windows images to different HBA types
When Windows is installed it searches it's driver database and installs the appropriate HBA driver so the boot loader can access the drive and boot the system. When an image is taken and cloned to a ...
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Is Imaging over wireless possible and/or feasible? PXE boot over Wireless?
I am looking to implement (if possible/feasible) the ability to image a PC and Mac via our wireless network. Is this actually possible? I have read multiple documents that newer Macbook Airs can do ...
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Workstation is not accepting image
I am in the process of a Win 7 migration using MDT and the last workstation is having a problem reimaging. I am getting an error message saying the installation was canceled windows cannot not ...
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Wyse Z Class Thin Client (WES7) Image Deployment
We are currently working on deploying a few Wyse WES7 thin clients (Z Class, exact model escapes me at the moment).
We have WDM setup, and are able to see new clients show up, interact with them, ...
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Write an image to an external hard disk in Windows 7
As you may already know, Windows Vista SP2 and up (includes Windows 7) block raw disk write access. Is there a way, short of patching the kernel, to override that block? So in cygwin I can do e.g. cat ...
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Image a Windows PC using Linux
I want to create a bootable USB disk (like Clonezilla) and create images which are saved as GHO/GHS
I also want to restore images back to the PC and do the following tasks (if possible)
Rename the ...
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Windows 7 install in small office
I have 6 new computer in a primary school that arrived with Win 7 installed. I have to put them on our domain, but I also have to install all sorts of programs on them.
With Win XP I always cloned ...
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Automated Server cloning and deployment
I have an ERP system that requires a local installation on a Windows Terminal Server to operate properly. Right now I pay for each TS that I have the vendor install the software on directly. ...
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Sysprep system started up
We sysprep'd our newest xp install and restarted to image it. Our tech missed getting it to boot into the usb drive for imaging. Is there anyway to leave the install now without it giving a bootup ...
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NT 4 inaccessible boot device
We have two NT4 SP6 machines that are identical. One of them went down and gives a bsod on boot with 'inaccessible boot device'. We assumed the hard drive went bad. So we attempted to take an image of ...
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Taking image of a VPS to run locally
How can i take image of my ubuntu running on a VPS and then make it run on my local machine?
I have access to my VPS via ssh as root user.
Taking an image of it and making it run on local machine ...
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PXE-E32 TFTP Open Timeout While Attempting to PXE Boot from Windows Deployment Services
I'm running Windows Deployment Services on Windows Server 2008 R2 on top of an ESX 4.0 box. This is the only function of this VM instance, although it had previously functioned as an AD Domain ...
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Sysprep rearm set to 1 and shouldn't have been. Any workarounds for automatic activation prior to the 30 day period?
I work for a fairly large school. We are deploying 850 tablet PCs to students starting tomorrow (Windows 7 Enterprise with a MAK). We have imaged all of these machines with our standard student image ...
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disaster recovery plan for server migration
We are migrating from a DC and Exchange 2003 on an old Win 2003 server to Win 2008 R2 and Exchange 2010 in a virtual env.
We are worried hardware failure in our old server when we install adprep and ...
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Windows Deployment Server and Re-Re-Imaging via PXE Boot
I'm just getting the hang of trying to configure/use Windows Deployment Services (WDS) to image Windows 7 workstations on our network.
I have the WDS server configured so any machine can request an ...
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Rebuilding failed WDS & MDT server… Do we need to change DNS, DHCP or AD?
My colleague and I are experimenting with replacing Ghost with WDS (Server 2008 R2 SE) and MDT 2010. I intially built the virtual machine and added the WDS service but at the time I also imported ...
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Proper Imaging Procedures to Restore and Deploy Image with Separate System Reserved Partition
UPDATE: As per my experience here, no one responded. If I do not hear back from TechNet forum members about it, I will post a bounty here, if it makes a difference.
I have banged my head against a ...
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Live updating running linux OS instance by unpacking disk image
I have couple of servers running off of an usb stick each. Servers are basically hypervizors.
What I was thinking of doing is distributing binary updates in form of downloading system image and ...
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make Windows 7 install compatible built-in driver when imaging or with GPO?
I have a device that has had no specific driver released. In Device Manager, if I choose
Update Driver... --> Browse my computer driver software --> Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my ...
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Recommendations for OS management and deployments in a portable lab?
Are there any general recommendations for managing OS's on a portable laptop cart? The cart will be taken to educational labs and used for teaching job skills to prisoners. We want to reset all the ...
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Create an iso file of EC2 backup on s3?
I just create an AMI instance of EC2 and than upload it S3 using following command:
1.ec2-bundle-vol -d /mnt -k /root/PrivateKey.pem --cert /root/Certificate.pem -u 012345678901
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Open Source Live Migration (Clone/Imaging)
I want to do a live migration of my Fedora and Windows Server 2003 into raw disk image without restart the server or shut it down. (disk image is for virtualization purpose) Is there any open source ...
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IDE compatability with SATA image
We had an old CNC machine's hard-drive fail recently. The hard-drive is an old 1275MB IDE (Seagate) and there were defiantly bad sectors on it. I was able to image the contents of the drive onto a ...
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Windows Server 2008 - Disk Imaging program wanted [closed]
Can anybody please suggest a good disk imaging solutions for Windows 2008 Server? The software should be capable of incremental backups, FTP storage and handling the Windows Server 2008 default ...
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How do I restore a .nbi NetRestore image to a Mac?
I need to image a set of Mac machines with the same image of Mac OS plus some pre-installed and configured software.
I created a base installation on a USB disk and imaged it as a NetRestore image ...
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Remotely Managing Windows Machines
So I'm curious about managing remote windows xp/or windows 7 boxes. Basically, I want to be able to lock the computers down so that junk doesn't get installed and disk space wasted (restart should ...
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RPCSS kerberos issues on imaged Windows workstations
While doing some unrelated troubleshooting (at least I think so, shared-printer issues) I came across a set of Event Log entries that have me concerned.
Machine Name: labcomputer82
Source: ...
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What's the best way to store an image?
I am attempting to create my own one-off imaging utility based on fedora and I have one main question. The utility (well, in theory) will save a raw image of the machine to a network storage ...
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Installing a Windows 7 image using OEM key provided with new computer
I work for a company of approximately 200 employees. We order 2-3 computers a month and would like to create and deploy a standard Windows 7 Pro image to the new machines. Is there a way to do this ...
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RAID Controller / RAID Array question
I have a question about my RAID controller. It's an Adaptec 2010s (onboard). I have 3 machines, all the same hardware. One is running, the others are down. If I pull my 4 SCSI hard disks out of the ...
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Checkout Laptops Imaging and Encryption
We have about 20 laptops (windows xp or 7) that we're getting ready for checkout at a library. People will be using these laptops anywhere from 1 day to 3 months.
We have a few issues because of new ...
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PC Imaging questions
I have some questions about how to image a group of PCs. I can use ghost or other software to create an image of a single PC well enough (otherwise this question would just be on superuser). What I ...
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Creating Windows 7 Images with Hyper V
I have been working on creating standard windows 7 images that can be installed on physical machines (setting up developer machines) following the instructions here
This involves:
Setting up the ...
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How to make bootable images of triple-boot OS on Mac OS
guys I would like to know the best practices or at least method to do the following things i am working on.
I have installed triple-boot OS(windows 7, RHEL linux and Mac OS 10.6) on imac7 with refit ...
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Scanning - hw custom document size
I need to perform a scanning of areas which do not meet standard sizes of A3, A4 etc. Those scans have to be loaded and post processed by custom application. The rough idea of my colleague was to ...
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Windows 7: restore from ISO
I made an image of my boot SSD using Linux directly to an ISO for safe keeping on another hard drive. Now that installation is messed up somehow I want to restore from the ISO. I know Windows 7 ...
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Is there a way of creating an image from a bootable usb stick
I would like to create an image from a hard drive, but most software for this requires to be installed (on windows)
I would like to attach two hard-drives and a usb stick, and create and copy the ...
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Simple Duplication of several Machines (Imaging, with Linux)
I have set up a single laptop (I have 10 of these exact models) for a demonstration next week. I want to copy the configuration (Fedora 13 with the software for demonstration) to the 9 other machines. ...
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Multicast image restoration with adaptive speed
I'm curious to know if there are any tools for restoring disk images (or even transferring files) via multicast -- for any platform, especially if the project has source available -- where the ...
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How do I access the hidden “R & R” partition on a Lenovo laptop?
I have some Lenovo laptops (T410 / X201) and want to get the .wim files from the R & R partition.
Anyone know how I can access it? It shows in the OS (i.e. has a drive letter assigned) but shows ...
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Need disc image help pronto!
I recently got a job as a junior network administrator. Last week the senior admins did their yearly reinstall of server 2003, exchange, drivers etc on the main server.
I've been asked to back up the ...
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Pre-built images deployed directly onto machines without Virtualization
I'm looking into a solution for our QA department that allows them to create a set of operating system images and deploy them to multiple machines from a central server without using virtualization.
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How to image an fresh hard drive
I'm looking for something that can drop an image of Windows onto an uninitialized Hard Drive. I have new units that haven't even had the partition table created on them, and I'm trying to come up with ...
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Deploying workstations - best practices?
I've been researching on the subject of workstation deployment for a while, and found a ton of info and dozens different methods and tools, but no "best practice" method that doesn't lack at least one ...
