fcguy Posted July 16, 2014 Posted July 16, 2014 (edited) So I thought to myself "Self - you need to setup six matching laptops you got for free - you've set one up exactly how you need it. Is there a way to simply image the hard drive and put that image on the other five machines? I'm sure there is - ask OCC! Short and skinny. Got 6 older dell laptops for free - current work wants to use them. All have good XP codes on the bottom. Set one up with all the appropriate drivers and software. Any freeware to dupe the drive contents on other machines? I don't have the equipment to remove a drive and run it on another PC. The drive claims 3.93GB of space used so it seems I might be able to use a DVD to image the other 5 drives. Dell D620 laptops if it matters. Thanks guys! Edited July 16, 2014 by fcguy Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccokeman Posted July 16, 2014 Posted July 16, 2014 Never used these since I use Acronis True Image. But these are free or so they say! http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/five-apps/five-free-and-reliable-cloning-tools/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RHKCommander959 Posted July 17, 2014 Posted July 17, 2014 I've had good luck with driveimage xml, and acronis. Never used, but heard good things about clonezilla. There are a few tools out there that use linux bootable distros too As far as I know the laptop drives are just SATA, so all you would need are SATA power/data cables in a tower to do it that way... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IVIYTH0S Posted July 17, 2014 Posted July 17, 2014 I've used a couple but have been most happy with Acronis/Diskwizard because of that space age compression its capable of Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fcguy Posted July 17, 2014 Posted July 17, 2014 Thanks for the input! I'll give Acronis a shot! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroFight Posted July 19, 2014 Posted July 19, 2014 I always use CloneZilla Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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