lforbes

Yes. I work in a Domain so the only imaging I do would be with Business. I
don't image my home machines where I run Vista Home Premium.

Cheers,
Lara

"Simon Berube" wrote:

> 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.
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
>