JAY94 Posted January 14, 2015 Posted January 14, 2015 Hi all, Hoping someone can help. I have 15 desktop pc's (Dell Precision 390) with no operating systems installed & was wondering if there is any solution in being able to install Windows 7 on all of them, through a free cloning software package that has been tried & tested. Many Thanks Jay
itguy22 Posted January 14, 2015 Posted January 14, 2015 Clonezilla, easy to use. Reliable. (Clonezilla Live is easier too! although this is only unicast not multicasting)
Davit2005 Posted January 14, 2015 Posted January 14, 2015 (edited) For 20 odd machines once I used Macrium, the machines were special build for a networking LAB, not on the domain or connected to the production network. Just take a presysprep clone, sysprep and then clone and test to another machine. Macrium ran from CD and then had the images on a few USB's. Edited January 14, 2015 by Davit2005
cdgill241183 Posted January 14, 2015 Posted January 14, 2015 We use ghost pretty easy and reliable just make a image on the master machine pull it back to the server and send out to the other clients
Davit2005 Posted January 15, 2015 Posted January 15, 2015 +1 for MDT, different way to working and although may take a small amount setup and testing it saves buckets of time. No need to do a separate image just for different hardware, build the image in a virtual environment and at deployment do BIOS queries to install the right drivers.
LeMarchand Posted January 15, 2015 Posted January 15, 2015 +1 for MDT, different way to working and although may take a small amount setup and testing it saves buckets of time. No need to do a separate image just for different hardware, build the image in a virtual environment and at deployment do BIOS queries to install the right drivers. +2 for MDT/WDS
hardtailstar Posted January 15, 2015 Posted January 15, 2015 Its not software, but Ive just installed an IT suite by building one computer with software then I copied the hard drive via a hard drive copying machine. Would take a bit longer then software but it worked
andyturpie Posted January 15, 2015 Posted January 15, 2015 I bought myself one of these for personal use a while back, I brought it into work when we upgraded our Mac music suite to SSD drives. We also tried it on our windows clients - took around 35 mins per workstation I would highly recommend this. StarTech Standalone Hard Drive Duplicator Dock - Ebuyer
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