PDA

View Full Version : Ghost Pc


darkstyle
July 17th, 2005, 06:01 AM
Hi there,

I am looking for Ghosting Program which will help me to Image Windows XP as well as all the programs in one Floppy. Its just that in my network there are around 40 pc and I got tired formatting them every time. If any one have some information about the software, please help! Thank you.
Butters
July 17th, 2005, 09:44 AM
You want to put Windows XP and a ton of programs onto 1 floppy disk?
hl
July 17th, 2005, 09:46 AM
:lol:
ramie
July 17th, 2005, 09:47 AM
http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/
ya3
July 17th, 2005, 10:04 AM
Well... if they're networked, you could configure one PC exactly how you want it, use Norton Ghost or something to make an image of the entire system (as you explained), but whenever you want to restore the workstations to the 'imaged' state, you could do it to all of them from one PC over the network :beam:

We've got that at school. There's a default config stored on some server, and whenever you install something (which you're not supposed to), it gets wiped and overwriten with the default config.

Not sure exactly how you'd do this, though :-/
[uber]
July 17th, 2005, 10:43 AM
yea... me and the network admin used to ghost over pc's with an image using a thumbdrive.... don't think the floppy will do it...
darkstyle
July 18th, 2005, 03:40 AM
well sorry guys but i guess i was unable to explain what i want!
hmmm... lets put it in this way,
i am looking for a software which will help me to Store Image of hardrive into one floppy, it working like same as windows restore. but the only difference is it includes other software information also.
ramie
July 18th, 2005, 05:57 AM
ok, is it just the partition table info you want to keep, if so that makes sense......

ok, you cannot possibly, ever ever never, no way jose, fit the contents of a drive on a floppy (1.44mb) that just cant happen.

you can use something like belarc to audit the machine, and have that info handy, then store the partition table info on a floppy and restore a partition setup that way.........
ya3
July 18th, 2005, 06:18 AM
What you need is WinZip UberSuperMegaProEnhancedVersion 9.2.1 Platinum Edition.




:trout:
Flashmatazz
July 18th, 2005, 07:42 AM
What you need is WinZip UberSuperMegaProEnhancedVersion 9.2.1 Platinum Edition.


:P

edit: or how about a onesizefitsall floppy?
teet
July 19th, 2005, 11:54 PM
I work at a computer shop and we have used PowerQuest Drive Image for many years now. It rocks my socks off.

We have an "image server" that holds hundreds of our images for different motherboard/OS combinations. Whenever we build a new machine, we pop in a custom made boot cd that boots up to the PQDI server (Somebody else always keeps the boot cd up to date so I don't know much about it). Then we just choose the image file we need and aabout 10 minutes later we have a fresh OS install. When you boot up to Windows you enter your product key and all that jazz. You have to make a new image for every motherboard/OS combination.

This may be a little bit of overkill for what you want to do, but this is what we do. Good luck.

-teet