Our workstations range from IDE, SATA to SAS based units and it's sods law that the day we need to do an emergency restore from an image is the day we hit a strange setup.
Any options *other* than ImageX and Acronis? Olly -----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 April 2008 16:17 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Making images to restore to new hardware In reality, this means that you have the ACPI HAL - which I'd guess 99%+ of computers these days do. For desktop, you've got IDE and USB. What else? I image my servers separately anyway, don't you? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -----Original Message----- From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 11:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Making images to restore to new hardware Yes, but being an MS imaging product all is not what it seems; "ImageX... 1)Requires that the destination computer use the same Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) as the master computer. 2)Requires that the destination computer boot from the same mass-storage controller as the master computer. " Thats why we went to TI with Universal Restore in the first place. Shame it doesn't work though. -----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 April 2008 16:06 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Making images to restore to new hardware ImageX. Part of Windows. Free for the download. -----Original Message----- From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 11:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Making images to restore to new hardware Other than Acronis and their pile-o-poo server products, can anyone recommend something that will allow me to make standard images for client builds and then allow me to roll them out to various hardware types? (ie we tend to make a CLIENT_A_MANAGER image and a CLIENT_B_DEV image etc for various client/role combinations and then we need to image them either laptops, desktops, workstations etc). Acronis just errors so often it's not funny. I thought about Ghost but haven't used that for many many years. I'd also like the ability to easily 'archive' the images off to cheap USB disks or something for clients we don't speak to often. Any suggestions ? Olly ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
