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Hi all, I have the upgraded version of the sofware and here's my problem.

I have configured 1 of 20 new Laptops (SSD drives) running WIN 8.1.
Now all I simply want to do is make an image of the 1st drive (True Image is installed) to a bootable USB device.
Then put that image onto the other 19 Laptops. One at a time (no networking).
They all need to be indentical apart from the computer name (which I will change).

Time is very short and I seem to be going round in circles the past few days, so if anyone can explain to me a simple way to do it I'd really appreciate it! :0)
(fyi, I've always used Ghost before this)

Many thanks
Mike

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The only tool that might work in TI is the Clone tool. Not sure if it would write to a removable drive or not but if it will it might work.

Windows does not support booting from external drives so your requirement for a bootable drive is questionable. What I think you mean there is that you wish to have a bootable image on a USB drive to make OS migration onto your machine easier. My thought here is you could clone your prepared image to your USB device, then using the TI bootable media disc you could clone from that USB device to each machine. I believe you might just pull that off but I would not want to try it unless all machines in question are of the same specification and hardware. Be advised that TI Clone tool in my opinion is best run from the TI bootable media disc. I would not attempt to run TI Clone from the Win environment.

The USB device doesn't have to be bootable.
The USB device holds the clone image of laptop No.1.
Boot each other Laptop with TI bootable media, either CD or bootable USB memory stick.
Boot up TI from the CD/stick then "restore" or whatever, the clone into that Laptop from the USB storage device.

Repeat for each laptop.

Excellent it seems to work Guys!!! :0)

But just out of interest.
Using this method, does anyone know of a way to put more than one 'Clone Image' on an external USB drive?
For example I'm using a 500GB drive that has just one clone on it which seems a waste, so I'd like to have more.
Much in the same way as Symantec Ghost used to do.

Any thoughts on that one please.

Mike.

I don't think that will work.

You should look at just a backup image of the source drive, not a clone but regular backup. See if it can restore to a new drive.

http://www.acronis.com/support/documentation/ATIH2014/index.html#9042.h…

I think that might be doable. If you used basic primary MBR partitions on the source disk. You can create a maximum of 4 primary MBR partitions on a disk. If you did so with each of equal size (125GB unformatted) and assigned each a unique name so as not to confuse them such as Win 7 disk, Win 8 disk, Ubuntu disk, etc.. You could then clone each OS install to it's respective disk partition. Then you could clone any disk partition to another machine.

In a sense you would create a multi boot disk that does not have to necessarily be bootable although it could be. I know plenty of users running such systems and use third party boot managers to run the OS of choice all from a single disk partitioned as I described. I see no reason you should not be able to clone from this type of arrangement using the manual clone options within the clone tool. I am attaching a link above to documentation of the clone tool. Give it a thorough read and I think you would agree.

I do advise that during any clone operation you insure that power is not lost during the operation so use of a battery backup is highly recommended!