Take a really GOOD look at Microsoft DaRT which you can evaluate from Technet. This contains a wizard to create the Microsoft Emergency Recovery Disks (ERD) which now have different versions for XP/Server 2003, Vista/Server 2008 and W7/2008R2. Think of this as WinPE with all the tools from the toy cupboard.
We've been using ERD 5 to recover from McAfee issues this week. The integrated system restore and autoruns resolved a further issue number of issues. With ERD6.5 (windows 7 kernel) you can just stick in a USB stick of tools with imaging tools on them. One trick we managed was to multiboot a USB stick to 3 different ERD disks plus parted magic. We do use a lot of different imaging tools, but the general rule is that the paid-for products are much faster. Shadow Protect is probably the fastest we use. Mike ________________________________________ From: HELP_PC [[email protected]] Sent: 01 May 2010 06:13 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: R: Open source 'ghost' product? And a really engaged IT wouldn't waste time in experiments and trials . If I have to image a server of a customer I feel more quiet using Storage craft or other paid products requiring one shot only GuidoElia HELPPC -----Messaggio originale----- Da: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:[email protected]] Inviato: venerdì 30 aprile 2010 21.09 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Open source 'ghost' product? It's been about a year since I looked at making a WinPE disk... so I could be completely wrong here, but: 1. Doesn't it require you download WAIK? Isn't that a HUGE Download? Doesn't it require that you burn the ISO (or have some other ISO mounting tool that Windows doesn't have nativity) to install? 2. Doesn't the creation of a Win PE image require a little command line? I seem to remember at least a few steps, which are well written in the docs, to successfully create the image. I also seem to remember that, while the instructions were there, they were burried within the rest of the documentation for WAIK, which is a fairly large doc. 3. Doesn't WinPE come with only the drivers of windows of which you created the PE disk with? I think the newest WinPE allows hot-installation of drivers (yay!), but if you wanted to include the drivers on the disk it requires more work before/while you create the image. Also, I hear that the newer version of the program that mounts the disk image runs a lot faster, as the old one had to completely copy the data to a temporary Read-Write volume, make the change, then re-image it in Read-Only mode. 4. Does Windows come nativity with a .iso burner? I think Windows 7 does (finally). Easy is a relative term. What's easy for you, may not be so easy for me. Thus, when I called it "not super easy", I wasn't trying to say it was too difficult. But it isn't a single command, either. (I wish it was!) --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ----- Original Message ----- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[email protected]] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:22:30 -0700 Subject: RE: Open source 'ghost' product? > >That being said, making a WinPE CD is not super easy > > Well, I would disagree. The syntax is very accurately documented in > the chm's and technet. I use it all the time whip out custom iso's and > add drivers to do things. Just make a script to automate it, and > Voila! > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
