Imaging software

captain_twinkie · Post by **captain_twinkie** » Thu Aug 06, 2009 10:28 am

I am looking for some imaging software, either network, or with a external hard drive. For both PC and MAC. Preferrably a free program.

What all do you guys use?

Zantor · Post by **Zantor** » Thu Aug 06, 2009 4:19 pm

What kind of imaging? What do you mean by the term \"image\"?

captain_twinkie · Post by **captain_twinkie** » Thu Aug 06, 2009 4:48 pm

Sorry I ment whole OS image, like Norton Ghost.

BUBBALOU · Post by **BUBBALOU** » Fri Aug 07, 2009 10:37 am

Nothing that is free and I do this daily without booting to an O/S, what are you planning to do (see Acronis True Image for simplicity )

Zantor · Post by **Zantor** » Fri Aug 07, 2009 3:48 pm

I use RawCopy. It's part of UBCD 4 Windows.

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Fri Aug 07, 2009 10:31 pm

At work on our Macs we use Deploy Studio. It's free. Does both Windows (BootCamp) and Mac imaging.

Not sure if that's what you were after when you mentioned works on PC and Mac.

As for just our plain ol' PC's, we use Ghost (not free).

captain_twinkie · Post by **captain_twinkie** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 10:54 am

Sorry for not any more info, I currently just got a job at my local school district, and right now for the windows machines they are using either Zen network imaging, or DRLB server with clonezilla. So my basic needs would be to setup a PXE server, or a network image server to install a image that I have prepared. So I was just wanting some insight.

The last few days I was toying with Acronis and clonezilla, so I was just wanting some suggestions of what others use.

TechPro · Post by **TechPro** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 4:14 pm

Where I work we like to use WinPE to boot from CD, DVD, or USB thumb drive ... connect to our network and use Ghost to upload/download images or \"blast\" an image onto groups of computers. We also use PXE but you have to have multicast working right on your network routers/switches in order for PXE to work well/reliably.

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 3:49 pm

Yes we also use PXE WindowsPE (the Vista version).

We are still using Ghost32 8.0.