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Disk cloning is an excellent choice if you need to install identical OS and application configurations on multiple computers.
On a master computer, you install the operating system and any applications that you want installed on the target computers. Then you run Microsoft® Sysprep© if required. Microsoft® Sysprep© prepares the hard disk of a Microsoft® Windows© NT/XP/2000/2003 installation on the master computer for duplication to other computers. You take an image of the master computer using LogicImage©. Finally, you then apply the image to the destination computers. This method decreases deployment time dramatically compared to standard or scripted installations.
Most manufactures of computers don`t supply you with recovery CD`s, making it difficult to reinstall a preinstalled operating system. Using LogicImage© you can create an image of a drive and keep it in a safe place, it can then be restored at anytime.
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LogicImage© can interpret the following file systems:
This means that LogicImage© creates a concise image of your source/master drive. Each partition formatted with the above file systems will be intelligently scanned for data files and only that data will be included in the image. This can lead to huge reductions in both the size of each image file and the time taken to create and restore images.
For example, if your master computer has a 100GB IDE drive with 500MB of data stored, LogicImage© will only clone the necessary 500MB of data.
Additionally, LogicImage© offers 3 levels of compression when creating an image, thus further reducing the size of the image file, leading to improved image restore times when accessing the image file over the network.
For example, if you created an image file without compression that occupied 500MB of data storage, each client accessing this image over the network would require a total of 500MB network bandwidth in order to restore the image. If we use one of the LogicImage© compression levels when creating the image file, we will reduce the size of the image file to, for example, 400MB. Thus each client accessing the file only requires a total of 400MB network bandwidth, representing a 20% reduction in network traffic.
The image file created by the cloning software contains all details of the hard drive or partition you are cloning and includes all files—no matter what their attribute settings.
For example, the image will hold all hidden and system files—including the crucial Io.sys and Msdos.sys—essential for booting Windows 9x, the NT information files required for a system that dual-boots Win 9x with Win NT/2000, and the master boot record (MBR) itself. Because everything about your disk partitions, your operating system, your applications, utilities and your configuration settings are simple data bytes, and because the image file captures the original on a byte-by-byte basis, the completed image file contains everything needed to reproduce the hard drive or partition exactly.
4 easy steps to replicate a disk
1. Create your Master build on a PC
2. Use Microsoft® Sysprep© to create a unique SID, once the PC has shutdown
3. Use LogicImage© to create an image
4. Use LogicImage© to restore the image to other PC
The result is a clone of the Master build from step 1.
Of course, many users have only one large partition on their hard drives, so the size of the image file is a concern. We solve this problem by copying only those hard drive sectors that contain data, not empty sectors. In addition,you can select to compress the image, the technique can result in an image file substantially smaller than the original partition, allowing you to store your image files on a second hard drive, network drive, CD-R, or CD-RW etc.
Features
Clone drive to another drive
Clone drive to an image file
Clone partition to an image file
Clone partition to another partition
Clone partition to a hidden partition
Restore drive from image file
Restore partition from image file
Resize partitions on restore or after*
Different compression levels
Split files into segments for removeable media
Command line based
Key Features
Backup your drive or partition while in windows, no need to boot into DOS
Restore partition in Microsoft® Windows©*
Run in DOS or Win32 environment
Benefits
Lower the cost of ownership
Create a recovery image of your PC
Create a master image that can be loaded on your other PC`s
Backup your drive while in Microsoft® Windows©.
Modify the sysprep.inf after restore to include PC uniqueness.
Resize partitions without data loss and during restore.*
Supported Partitions
All basic disk partition types that are used in every version of windows are supported, this includes FAT16/FAT32 and NTFS
* On supported partitions only which are not locked by the operating system
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