Cloning Windows 7 over the network?

Question

linux

Task: you need to install a pre-prepared image of Windows 7 on four dozen machines.
Previously, Windows XP cloned like this:
Booted into Linux and using ntfsclone created an image of the partition with the installed system: ntfsclone --save-image -o - /dev/sda1 | gzip -c > backup.img.gz
Then distributed the image over the network to all computers using the commands:

nc -l 3333 | gunzip -c | ntfsclone --restore-image --overwrite /dev/sda1 -

and nc [ip] 3333 < image.img.gz
But with Windows 7 it doesn't work, it just won't load. As I understand it, the problem is in the bootloader. I tried to restore the bootloader using ms-sys: ms-sys -7 -w /dev/sdaor by copying the MBR from a normally booting Windows:

dd if=/dev/sda of=/home/user/MBR.img bs=446 count=1

. But none of this worked.
Tell me how you can restore the bootloader directly from Linux (I know about the Windows recovery disk, but it takes a lot of time). Or with what else can you clone Windows 7 over the network?

Answer 1

>>Or what else can be used to clone Windows 7 over the network?
You can try clonezilla . Grub it can correctly overwrite. I don't know how it will behave with the Windows bootloader.

Answer 2

check if you are cloning the 100 mb partition at the beginning of the disk that win7 creates (if you have one)
for an ideal solution - look at WDS (Windows Deployment Services)
and it's not clear how exactly it (cloned windows) does not boot.

Answer 3

Windows Deployment Services is the most correct way to distribute Windows across the grid.

Answer 4

Are your screws new and clean? check that after unfolding the image and mbr, your system partition is indeed marked as active.