How Can One Create Images from Netbooks??

[Yung_Jah]

Sound like you are into programming....and I am lost for words....I mean...I can see that stating what you did in a step by step manner....but bwoy....speak some english....lol..

Well see what I can do when get my hands on all this.

[kilaj1]

lol you would be surprised ...i hate programming...never got into it...the scripting I did is specific to ghost command lines and basic HTML editing.

With the exception of ghost, everything I mentioned is free ...im starting that thread now...should be a bit more clear...but what exactly did i lose u on?

[Anthon]

Norton Ghost and Symantec Ghost are 2 different evils...I spit on norton ghost...I laugh at the sys admin for using it and I get a headache when people mention it.....
Symantec Ghost is the corporate level of Ghost, the command line switches should be the same but Symantec one is more powerful imo.

Its not the system really recognizing the GHO format you would ahve to do some scripting to get ghost to launch, I actually have the entire script(s) needed

K let me give you a quick run down on how my recovery partition works, lets say i have a computer with a 160GB HDD.

Without Tumbdrive and creating the recovery partition localy

• Create 2 partitions using Diskpart 1x10GB for Recovery partition, 1x(reset of disk space) for OS.
• Create the base install on the large partition with all windows 7 updates all apps installed, create a ghost image of this partition and copy it to the second partition.
• After customizing WinPE with a GUI menu and adding scripts to the menu add the WinPE image (this is not the same as the ghost image) to the smaller partition.
• Using BCDedit you configure Windows 7 boot menu to show the recovery partition, this is essentially an entry pointing the above mentioned WinPE file.
  
• Within the WinPE environment when you select the Option to ghost ( i have a menu entry saying "System Recovery") the ghost script will run and start the ghost process and afterwords change the computer name and SID. This usually takes from 10mins to 15mins depending on the system specs and size.

So if my MBR gets corrupted, the recovery partition is rendered useless?

[Yung_Jah]

Option #3, regarding the WinPE....customizing method and so forth

[kilaj1]

So if my MBR gets corrupted, the recovery partition is rendered useless?

Yes unfortunately, in my company if this happens we resort to burning the ghost images to DVDs and send it out...if the office doesn't have an external drive they need to purchase one or send the unit to us.

I have not tested it with a USB key but it should work. The main reason we went with this method was for when we have users that messup there system with viruses or they mess with some other admin settings. not a perfect system, but it at least provides an additional option from shipping the unit to us. the user can do this on there own with out our help>less calls to support

Option #3, regarding the WinPE....customizing method and so forth

Ok cool, that was really a general comment cause that point alone is well detailed...from setting up the menu system to adding your own applications and even creating your own start button....no worry i going to post that thread soon and Ill update it if its still unclear.