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| Thread ID: 47454 | 2004-07-27 02:06:00 | Anyone used this: Universal Imaging Utility? | braindead (1685) | Press F1 |
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| 255651 | 2004-07-27 02:06:00 | Came across this site today - these are the folks in NZ who developed Ghost. Their spin: To Create a single Windows Image that works on all your hardware platforms... www.binaryresearch.net Select Universal Imaging Utility in the menubar. Cheers :: John |
braindead (1685) | ||
| 255652 | 2004-07-27 03:05:00 | I've used something similar that wipes all hardware specific drivers before running ghost. Can't remember what it was called, but does the same job. It means windows just finds the best video driver etc on startup rather than trying to run something that is wrong. robo. |
robo (205) | ||
| 255653 | 2004-07-27 03:08:00 | Might this not meet with the unqualified approval of a certain software company? ;-) | Graham L (2) | ||
| 255654 | 2004-07-27 03:12:00 | I wonder how it efects the size of the image. eg. if you take an image of a 120g partition of your Win installation, then try to apply it to other computers with 40g HD's, how would you get on? Rob |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 255655 | 2004-07-27 03:56:00 | I think it uses maximum size. Could be wrong. Might not get it to fit on a 120Mb disk, though. robo. |
robo (205) | ||
| 255656 | 2004-07-27 04:11:00 | It is a image of the OS data Derek, nor the actual hard drive so the size should be less than 1 Gb in most cases, just the OS and no drivers or any other hardware-specific files. That's my take on it as a long-time Ghost user anyway, and it sounds quite good to me. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 255657 | 2004-07-27 04:31:00 | Sysprep, it was called sysprep. robo. |
robo (205) | ||
| 255658 | 2004-07-27 05:27:00 | Re: sysprep Just found this: How do I use Sysprep to deploy Windows XP? www.jsiinc.com |
braindead (1685) | ||
| 255659 | 2004-07-27 05:30:00 | And one more: www.win2000mag.com Apparently sysprep is on the XP CD. This tells you where. :) |
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| 255660 | 2005-05-01 08:44:00 | I've had a play with UIU2.0 and it rocks! It does more than just remove hardware drivers, it seems to reset the HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) which was one of my biggest problems with deploying, and also pre-installs drivers for SCSI H/D's which is cool. I've used sysprep manually and it doesn't achieve nearly as much as this, it mainly does things like initiate the mini-setup to search for new hardware, reset user/machine details and rewrite SID's It comes with thousands of drivers as well (they seem to add an extra 250meg to the image, but means you don't have to search for drivers, insert CD's etc), my clones come out (and I have anti-virus, anti-malware etc software and my apps that I beta test installed before hand) 2 gig... It's got my vote! |
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