Cloning a disk with a system on multiple computers?

theproof2011-09-10 07:22:45

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theproof, 2011-09-10 07:22:45

Greetings!
Task: there is 1 computer fully configured, etc. It is necessary to “spill” the image of this system for 11 more such computers over the network. The configuration of iron is ideintic
Who used what in such cases?
Advise from personal experience
Thank you

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Sergey Savostin, 2011-09-10
@savostin

Somewhere on Habré there was an article about the problems of cloning Windows. Something related to the fact that IDs are generated during installation, which are then used for identification (authorization?) and there may be security problems if they are on the same network. Could not find.
So Windows® Automated Installation Kit (AIK), as already advised, is the only completely correct option, albeit for a long time.

amc, 2011-09-10
@amc

Tell me, why should everyone guess what exactly you have “set up”, what are your conditions, and so on?
If you have WinVista/Win7, just use sysprep and WDS (Windows Deployment Services), regular server role 2008+, for 2003 can be downloaded from download.microsoft.com

kostik450, 2011-09-11
@kostik450

Cloning the disk itself is not a problem. The problem is that each machine needs to be additionally configured, otherwise they will not be able to work simultaneously on the network, since they will have the same SID (machine identifier).
To give each machine its own SID, there is (was) the NewSID program from Mark Russinovich. Why was - because the official Microsoft forbade using it. Read more on the official page of the project.
In short, look for NewSID and everything will be OK.

codecity, 2011-09-10
@codecity

Two options used:
1. Use the Windows® Automated Installation Kit (AIK). In doing so, you create a distribution that installs (no questions asked). That is, they booted from the network and everything was installed by itself. Only activation, it seems, occurs after installation.
2. Windows PE + ImageX. Works much faster than DriveXml. You just have to enter the command for each computer separately (but for 11 - not so long). The activation is saved.

korvindest, 2011-09-10
@korvindest

In such cases, I used the Paragon partition Manager utility from the well-known Hiren Boot CD build.
We just connect all the screws, including the image, to one machine (if there are not enough contacts, then in batches) and start parallel copying to everything at once. The process is 30% slower than copying a single screw.
The downside is that you need to disassemble the cars, but under your conditions (no drive), I think it will do.

----, 2011-09-10
@stalkerxxl

Why complicate things?
Acronis True Image to the rescue...

ob1, 2011-09-10
@ob1

In Wikipedia (engl.) all this is well described.
There are also disk cloning devices .

Vitaly Peretyatko, 2011-09-11
@viperet

At a time when there were no flash drives yet, they used a stripped-down Linux on a floppy disk with the Dolly program (http://www.cs.inf.ethz.ch/cops/patagonia/dolly.html), clones a hard drive over the network to many computers at once, very fast. When I worked as a laboratory assistant at the university, this program helped out a lot ...
Now everything is much easier with flash drives ...

Dimitriy Dimitriy, 2020-04-29
@Dimitriy-D

Sysprep is a must. And then ad will go crazy with the same suid s and stop trusting them.
Then shoot the image with an acronis (for example) and roll it out to new hards.