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Some Newbie Questions - Need help

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Hi there,

I am using today Acronis Home 2013 to deploy computers in My organization,
This is the method i am currently using.

Installing a computer from scratch, including the operating system, drivers, office, and all the other programs we are using. and setting it up with all we need.

When that is done - i restart the computer, and boot from the Acronis CD.
I make a Full drive Backup of the computer. and i save the backup file on our company server.

the next step - all the other computers (which are all identical - hardware)
Booting each one of them with the Acronis CD. And restoring from backup the file that is on our server (the computers are all connected to our LAN as well - Cable connected)

Last step - after backup complete. renaming each computer with a different name. and joining that computer (for the first time) to the company domain.

This Works grate.

- now i have a new set of computers to deploy - and this are laptops, and they don't have a CD-ROM Drive.

SO.... My question is - How can i deploy the fastest way an image to this laptops?

again, one laptop i will install manually from scratch.. and creating a backup of that image in our company server. (unless u guys recommend something else..)

The Laptops do Have a USB input. my first thought was to take the Acronis CD, copy it to my computer as an ISO Image file. then take a USB Flash drive, copy the ISO and make it Bootable -
But i don't know how to do that ... didn't fount any tool here in the acronis web-site that makes USB flash drive Bootable from a ISO file..

Any ideas?
Thanks for taking the time and reading this.

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You can use the UNetbootin tool to make a bootable USB stick from the ISO image file, here's a link:

http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/