Yes, it's possible. But you have to install sysprep from MS in the source machine's XP first.
You can find more info in the forum. Try to find "sysprep" in the forum of clonezilla.
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I have tested a scenario like this in a lab situatioon and sysprep (before grabbing an image) works well.
Your image may be written to one or more target systems.
On the first boot a "Host Configuration Wizard" provides a dialogue to configure the new host.
You will need to have a Product Actvation Key to hand.
You need to be aware of 3 issues:
* Licensing: You need to have Windows licenses for the cloned hosts in order to keep it legal.
* Windows Drivers: Windows may be unhappy if your new host has different hardware components.
(Network Cards, Display, Storage devices), some fiddling about with a windows installaton disk can fix this.
* You need a plan to get your "source" host back to a normal configuration.
Either recover from a "Non Sysprep" clonezilla image you made earlier, or boot and feed the correct answers to the host configuration wizard.
In my experience, this approach is most useful when cloning a single image across muntiple hosts of the same hardware spec.
Regards
Steve Holmes
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For years I’ve used external drives to create and manipulate drive image backups like this: make two partitions, first partition 300MB fat32 for Clonezilla live boot, and the balance ntsf partition to store the images. Then I use tuxboot to install Clonezilla on the fat32 partition. Then I restart the pc and boot to the Clonezilla partition and make a drive image of whatever other drive and store it on the ntsf partition, or restore an image from the ntsf partition to whatever drive. I just bought a WD My Passport 2tb ignorant of the 2tb problem which I suspect is why my procedure won't work with it.
So how do I make this 2tb drive useful in the manner I want. How should I format this 2tb drive so it will boot Clonezilla via usb? Thank you.
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can clonezilla be used to image a windows 2003 server with raided SATA drives and apply image to another server with a different model# ???
Thanks,
mikntwd
Yes, it's possible. But you have to install sysprep from MS in the source machine's XP first.
You can find more info in the forum. Try to find "sysprep" in the forum of clonezilla.
I have tested a scenario like this in a lab situatioon and sysprep (before grabbing an image) works well.
Your image may be written to one or more target systems.
On the first boot a "Host Configuration Wizard" provides a dialogue to configure the new host.
You will need to have a Product Actvation Key to hand.
You need to be aware of 3 issues:
* Licensing: You need to have Windows licenses for the cloned hosts in order to keep it legal.
* Windows Drivers: Windows may be unhappy if your new host has different hardware components.
(Network Cards, Display, Storage devices), some fiddling about with a windows installaton disk can fix this.
* You need a plan to get your "source" host back to a normal configuration.
Either recover from a "Non Sysprep" clonezilla image you made earlier, or boot and feed the correct answers to the host configuration wizard.
In my experience, this approach is most useful when cloning a single image across muntiple hosts of the same hardware spec.
Regards
Steve Holmes
Stephen,
Thanks. I have updated the FAQ to include this.
http://drbl.sourceforge.net/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/60_universal_clonezilla_image.faq#60_universal_clonezilla_image.faq
Steven.
For years I’ve used external drives to create and manipulate drive image backups like this: make two partitions, first partition 300MB fat32 for Clonezilla live boot, and the balance ntsf partition to store the images. Then I use tuxboot to install Clonezilla on the fat32 partition. Then I restart the pc and boot to the Clonezilla partition and make a drive image of whatever other drive and store it on the ntsf partition, or restore an image from the ntsf partition to whatever drive. I just bought a WD My Passport 2tb ignorant of the 2tb problem which I suspect is why my procedure won't work with it.
So how do I make this 2tb drive useful in the manner I want. How should I format this 2tb drive so it will boot Clonezilla via usb? Thank you.
Duplicated post. Let's focus on this:
https://sourceforge.net/p/tuxboot/discussion/general/thread/6c99156b/
Steven