Imaging drives

[ross52066]

I was wondering if anybody had any ideas on what they think the best way to get images of drives onto a central repository is. If you have a solution right now that you use frequently and are satisfied with, please share.

Here is our situation:

We do lots of PC builds and they're all customized. These builds include all types of different drives such as IDE, SATA, laptop drives, etc. We would like a solution to be able to plop a drive in somewhere and start a imaging process and eventually we would like to store these onto multiple external 500GB drives.

They keys are simplicity and speed.

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[DelJo63]

google for Ghost.

build one image with ALL the drivers your intend to use, image it and save to an archive.

later reverse the flow from Archive --> new target disk

 

[captaincranky]

Acronis........?

Is Norton's "Ghost" the best of the breed in drive imaging tools? Could you brief us about any of the others?

 

[DelJo63]

we used it commercially but did not attempt a Consumer's Report exhaustive study on the subject