[Novalug] Imaging Laptop Tool

[Miguel Gonzalez Castaños]

Brandon Saxe wrote:
> Try DriveImageXML. I use it ALL the time at work to do laptop imaging. It is free, designed for Windows, can schedule images. You can continue to work while it's imaging. Claims to work on XP, Vista, and Server 2003. I have only used it with XP.
>
> http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm
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> You can create Windows live boot disc with the tool as well as a BartPE plugin. 
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> http://www.runtime.org/peb.htm
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> I just used it today in fact to restore an image of my laptop from May. The C: partition table seemed to be trashed after a crash. Chkdsk didn't solve any problems. Booted BartPE with DriveImage and my image on USB disk. 15 minutes later, my computer was back! Simple and easy and free.
>
> --Brandon
>   
Am I wrong or with DriveImageXML is not possible to perform a bare metal 
recovery on Windows 2003 Servers? If yes, which DVD or CD image you use 
for performing the restore? I don't want to spend the time to play 
around building a restore CD with BartPE, any basic image that works out 
of the box?

Miguel