it only took 11 minutes to image a Windows 7 laptop, and 3 minutes to restore it to another laptop. the image copying process just requires a few clicks, and the restore process only requires to set the computer to boot using PXE booting option. I find Clonezilla much easier to use than any other disk imaging solution I ever tested so far. and after fighting with Ubuntu Server for awhile, I was able to get it running. after hearing endless love songs, and poems about Clonezilla in the open source Linux community I decided to give it a shot. and if you have the money to buy it, go for it.Ĭlonezilla the open source Symantec Corporate Ghost, just better. anyways, that was my first impression of the software. but nay, Symantec dumped all things on the front console interface,that figuring out how to start using the software is intimidating. and have link for advanced functionalities customization. why not only have a button that says “disk image, click here” and another one saying “ restore image, click here. the server console has too many options and that rather than helping confuse the user.

this is my personal opinion, I find Symantec Corporate Ghost bloated, slow and clumsy. I played with it for awhile ( trial version ), and I was able to image a few computers.

we started using Symantec Corporate Ghost in our company, but we have many office locations and we did not have enough licenses for all the offices so some of us could not use it. this solution is disk based imaging so it does not matter what type of OS the computer has, it will image the entire disk. Symantec Corporate Ghost is used to deploy multiple computer images through the network using multicast. follow this detailed tutorial on how to accomplish that if you are looking just to install windows 7 on your network, I think this is the best option. WAIK does not support other Operating systems than Windows 7 and Windows 2008, and most likely we will have Windows XP and Windows 2003 workstations and servers in our network for awhile, and once in awhile there will be a need to install one of these OSs and I cannot use WAIK to do that, so is not quite the solution for us. the download for the kit is almost 2 GB and you can download it from here. Microsoft has packaged a few deployment tools on this kit that makes windows 7 deployment much easier than any other Windows OS.

How to install windows 7 over a network