Recommendations for a free disk imaging software

adarryladarryl No Man Stands So Tall As When He Stoops To Help a Child. Icrontian
edited December 2009 in Science & Tech
I am trying to assist a teacher friend of mine who also takes care of (read "for free") the small computer network at his school. If you know anything about small, rural schools; you know they expect teachers to do additional duties according to their skill and most often without additional compensation. He put it this way in his email: "I have 18 laptops at L*** School that I would like to image rather than install software and create shortcuts on each and every one." Can you recommend a decent, free program comparable to Norton Ghost that can do the job? Appreciate it!

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  • ardichokeardichoke Icrontian
    edited December 2009
    There have been a few threads about this recently. I'd recommend looking at Clonezilla It has some advanced features that they probably won't use but you can always just dump an image to an external drive then use the disk to restore it to each system.
  • ardichokeardichoke Icrontian
    edited December 2009
    Oh, and to be able to deploy a Windows image to multiple computers, he is going to have to reseal the OS first using Sysprep. There's a good, albeit slightly dated, guide on using sysprep and clonezilla here
    http://techtalkplus.blogspot.com/2008/08/using-sysprep-clonezilla.html
    That should give them a good starting point.
  • adarryladarryl No Man Stands So Tall As When He Stoops To Help a Child. Icrontian
    edited December 2009
    Great information! Thanks! I will pass it along.
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