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Just to add to my original response... My day job is predominantly Windows and I've used CloneZilla to backup & clone laptops, workstations and servers with hardware RAID... all with success. I must admit, I used to use Parted Magic because it also contained gparted, etc (which also worked on most hardware RAID - but not all!)... however, now that Parted Magic has started charging (which is fair enough), I've started using just CloneZilla and GParted in isolation - they're smaller and quicker to use. If you're going to be doing a lot of other hard-drive work too, I'd recommend Parted Magic as the "distro" to use for everything. Steve -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tremayne, Steve Sent: 18 February 2014 12:13 To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [LUG] Automated to dvd to hdd imaging Graham, When you say "automatically", what are you after exactly? I'm not aware of any restoration media which just starts installing software over the top of a hard-drive without some kind of interaction :o) FYI - Apparently a .TBI file is from this crowd: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image-for-windows.htm Is this for disaster recovery, or OS rollout? I'd be careful with a Win7 rollout via cloning, unless you're ok with changing the SIDs, etc. First pass at an answer... clonezilla? Pros: Works. Can even do a network cloning of 1:many in parallel (swamps the network though!) Cons: Needs a good understanding of what you're doing. Steve -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Graham Sent: 17 February 2014 08:38 To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [LUG] Automated to dvd to hdd imaging Hi, Could you recommend the easiest way to contruct a linux dvd image that would automatically restore a windows 7 partition. It would be to a 120gb ssd. We used to buy the machines, but we are going to build them ourselves now. The disks that they used to come with had a .tbi extension. But didnt like 1TB drives. Regards -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq