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Replicating one Windows 7 installation on additional machines?

Hi,

The following situation:

I've got 10 laptops currently running XP on which I will install Windows 7 (wiping the disk first).
I've installed Windows 7 on one of those laptops, updated it, installed the programs we need, etc. It runs perfectly.

Now how could I transfer this configuration/installation on the other laptops without having to reinstall all of them (we're covered with licences)? They obviously also need different names but I could do that manually if need be and re-register them in our AD.

So what I want to do is to kind of clone the image of this laptop to the other 9. What's the best/easiest way to do this?

I've looked in WAIK and MDT but that seems like overkill and not actually doing what I want to do?

Thanks a lot!

Jerome

Thanks a lot!

Ivano Viola

Jerome,

There are a few ways you could this. The process I follow can be read here:
https://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Windows/Windows_7/A_3095-Windows-7-Sysprep.html

I been using this process for the last 3 years without problems.

Hope this puts you on the right track.

IV

Kruno Džoić

if you want clone hdd use one of these programs

http://dottech.org/featured/6194/

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Use an imaging software, such as Acronis 2010, make an image of the system you want to duplicate and put it on the others with acronis 2010 by booting into.