I realise that this has been broached many times, but I suppose I am a bit thick. Anyway - I work in a school where the student body have identical machines (Lenovo s10-3). It is my job in conjunction with the council to look after these machines for the students.
I have kidnapped a machine over the Easter holidays and want to build/create an image for these on a bootable usb drive. This will mean that if one of the kids comes to me with a catastrophic problem / harddrive failure, I can reformat the machine back to its starting point.
So 300 identical machines with identical setups. All the software is legal and confirmed with appropriate activation keys (which I have).
I have mucked about with Macrium reflect and deploy software but no cigar.
This is what I want to do - take the "zero'd" bare bones machine - activated windows 7 32 bit, java, adobe, drivers etc. Copy the whole setup (I believe called an image) onto a bootable usb (if the process can make the usb bootable in the process - cool). When this is done I can keep the usb as a "master bootable drive" that can be used to boot other machines as and when they occur. Given that the school has 300 machines, with their associated dysfunctional teenage owners, I can use this usb as a master bootable copy (I will need to make three).
We received one copy from the council but this contains office 2007 (we now use office 365 as standard) whilst the OS contained no updates so an updated and service packed bundle would be lovely. also drivers have always been an issue as soon as the machines are released into gen pop, so driver updated would also be wonderful.
Anyone know a decent utility that can do that? Instructions are always helpful to me (as I said I'm a bit thick).
Can anyone help a lowly English teacher stranded in Copenhagen?
I have kidnapped a machine over the Easter holidays and want to build/create an image for these on a bootable usb drive. This will mean that if one of the kids comes to me with a catastrophic problem / harddrive failure, I can reformat the machine back to its starting point.
So 300 identical machines with identical setups. All the software is legal and confirmed with appropriate activation keys (which I have).
I have mucked about with Macrium reflect and deploy software but no cigar.
This is what I want to do - take the "zero'd" bare bones machine - activated windows 7 32 bit, java, adobe, drivers etc. Copy the whole setup (I believe called an image) onto a bootable usb (if the process can make the usb bootable in the process - cool). When this is done I can keep the usb as a "master bootable drive" that can be used to boot other machines as and when they occur. Given that the school has 300 machines, with their associated dysfunctional teenage owners, I can use this usb as a master bootable copy (I will need to make three).
We received one copy from the council but this contains office 2007 (we now use office 365 as standard) whilst the OS contained no updates so an updated and service packed bundle would be lovely. also drivers have always been an issue as soon as the machines are released into gen pop, so driver updated would also be wonderful.
Anyone know a decent utility that can do that? Instructions are always helpful to me (as I said I'm a bit thick).
Can anyone help a lowly English teacher stranded in Copenhagen?