How to clone an OS from one PC to another?

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Hello!
Need advice.
There are two identical (hardware) monoblocks on win 7 32bit.
The first monoblock is ready to work (all the necessary software is installed, a lot of it). On the second monoblock clean OS.
Actually the task is to save time and clone the OS from the first (along with all the software) to the second.
By what means can this be done?
PS /
Tried to do the following using standard Windows tools.
- I removed the system image from the 1st PC to a removable hard drive.
- On 2 PCs, I launched OS recovery from removable media. The PC goes into reboot, sees the desired image on the hard, but does not want to deploy the OS from it. Offers to create a disk and knocks out an error. I do not understand how to install the OS from the image. Surely there is some less laborious way.

Answer 1

In general, this can be done with any utility - acronis, clonezilla.
Although I usually do it just by regular means - for example, through a system image.
Describe exactly how you do it step by step, let's try to figure out where the error comes from.
Do you have two disks connected in your system, on one image, the other is blank, you boot from a USB flash drive, select recovery, select the desired image and get an error?
There is another way - to create a mirror raid, wait for synchronization, and pull the second disk out of the raid and put it on the second computer.
Then turn off the mirror on both machines.
Fast and very easy. And no utilities.

Answer 2

Use Clonezilla.
And for cloning using windows, you first need to prepare the donor system with the sysprep utility.

Answer 3

Acronis True Image