Disk imaging software - Democratic Underground

DaveJ

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Thu Sep-18-08 09:45 AM
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Disk imaging software

Hi, Does anyone know of any open source (free) disk imaging software, something that preferably could be installed on computers with different hardware configurations?

Almost everything seems to be free these days, so I thought I'd give it a shot.

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hunter

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Thu Sep-18-08 01:04 PM
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1. What are you trying to do?

Make images of entire hard drives? CDs? DVDs?

Which Operating System? Windows XP? Vista?

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DaveJ

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Thu Sep-18-08 07:34 PM
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2. Well pretty much just reduce monotany

Edited on Thu Sep-18-08 07:37 PM by djohnson

At work we have these demo laptops which involve lengthy product installs and everyone messes them up, so it would be nice to have an image we can just slap back on to keep them all the same. We're using Windows XP unfortunately, wish it were Vista.

I know most imaging apps are cheap, like $40 or less, but so much is open source these days.

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Gore1FL

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Thu Sep-18-08 11:48 PM
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4. I use ghost

I create an image, and the sysprep it, load it on a server and then bring it down at will.

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PennDem

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Thu Sep-18-08 09:20 PM
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3. BartPE

WinPE and ImageX are free tools from Microsoft that will make and deploy images of XP and Vista. It is not very user friendly, all command line. http://www.svrops.com/svrops/articles/sysprepvista.htm

BartPE is a great tool but you need to build the disk with a licensed version of Ghost to make images with it. It will not work with Vista. http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

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