Simon Berube

I'm pretty sure that the drive imaging in Vista is only in in Ultimate and
Business editions, too.

"lforbes" <lforbes@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A1F07F49-7859-40D7-A4F2-E37932991403@microsoft.com...
> Hi Simon,
>
> Thanks for this info. I used Ghost until they required an upgrade for
> every
> new OS. With 500 workstations it got too expensive. I will investigate
> TrueImage.
>
> I have been using Partimage which is a linux imaging program that works
> GREAT on XP and 2000 but haven't tested it on Vista.
>
> Vista does have its own deployment imaging but you need one CD per machine
> which isn't fun.
>
> Cheers,
> Lara
>
> "Simon Berube" wrote:
>
>> TrueImage is incredible, and so very affordable too! Ghost was an
>> amazing
>> product back in the day, but hardware has changed and Norton didn't keep
>> up.
>> I seriously considered purchasing Norton to make multiple workstations
>> for
>> my father's business. I had a Ghost 2003 edition that didn't cut it
>> because
>> of incompatibilities with the hardware. I assumed that the latest
>> version
>> would resolve the issue, mainly SATA.
>>
>> Luckily I ended up trusting the Newegg customer reviews. My perception
>> of
>> the Ghost software was that it was leading, robust software which was in
>> a
>> league of its own. However, the ratings were awful, and I looked into
>> the
>> competition. TrueImage was cheap and downloadable right from Newegg, so
>> I
>> saved both time and money. That stuff is amazing. You can prepare many
>> media types as boot media. From this, you can clone drives, get and send
>> image files to and from CD-R media, USB, network shares, DVD. I was just
>> impressed, because they made that media resemble the XP luna theme and
>> it's
>> always easy to use.
>>
>> In my case, I installed the software on my server, set the network boot
>> options, and with every system, I used boot from network option and it
>> was
>> same as if I had put in the boot CD. I made an image from one computer,
>> which saved directly to a network share, and I then pulled that image
>> from
>> several identical workstations (also with the boot from network ability)
>> to
>> save time. This software is up to date, extra robust software, that easy
>> to
>> use.
>>
>> Only thing that I would comment about, is that if you choose to use the
>> network to do these things, you may need to type /SERVER/C or whatever
>> your
>> shared folder may be. Most of the time the entire network was viewable,
>> but
>> sometimes I gave it direction .
>>
>> Good luck with it Charlie.. Oh .. and if it is not apparent, I am not
>> being
>> payed to say such things, it's incredible software and I want to let it
>> be
>> known.
>>
>> Simon
>>
>> "R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSpam_@mindspring.com> wrote in message
>> news:OEFu5%23KZHHA.4772@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> > Acronis True Image Home Version 10.0.4942 might be a solution for
>> > you. Very capable Imaging program and works well with Vista.
>> > Acronis offers a free trial at:
>> > http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...cts/trueimage/
>> >
>> > "Charlie" <charlie@aol.com> wrote in message
>> > news:eQG3C6KZHHA.3968@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> >> Is there any Vista compatible drive imaging software that will allow
>> >> me
>> >> to save my local image to a network drive? With XP I had been using
>> >> Norton Ghost but they have no solution for Vista.
>> >
>> >
>>