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Re-imaging a hard drive

Deploying netbooks for our organization and want to give the users the ability to reload a default image if needed. Anyone have any suggestions on what software to use to do this. Of course it needs to be as simple as possible. THE OS is Windows 7.

madunix

-Paragon Drive Copy is a cutting-edge solution to deploy new hard drive, migrate data and applications online, create bootable backup copy of a hard drive or its partitions. Paragon Drive Copy is based on innovative Hot Copy? technology. Due to this technology all your applications remain online during data migration without significant performance delays. Easy to manage and understand interface in Windows XP style, unique One Button Copy Wizard, platform independent Drive Copy CD, automatic transferred partition resizing, wide hardware support (including USB, FireWire hard drives) make Drive Copy an ideal solution for the full spectrum of disk cloning operations.
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-Acronis Backup & Recovery Workstation is the next generation of the Acronis True Image disaster recovery product for small enterprise environments. Built to protect the intellectual property that resides in business desktops and laptops, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Workstation combines optimized data protection and ease-of-use. It creates an exact disk image of your office workstation and backs up the operating system, applications, key data files and folders.
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-clonezilla
http://clonezilla.org/
http://www.sevenforums.com/software/18971-clonezilla-open-source-image-backup.html

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SterlingMcClung

Take a look at the Windows AIK(Automated Installation Kit). This is the kit that OEMs use to preimage and provide restore images for computers. It is not exactly simple on your end, but can be made to be very easy for the user. Best part, it is free and fully "supported" by MS.