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OK, ta. Probably will go FOG then for PXE boot installs, and investigate using a Linux shell script for copying images to local/SAN drives.

Question answered, just not sure how to mark it as such.

For some jobs yes and I can see using FOG with PXE boot will work in those situations. However some jobs require mass hard drive wipes and checking or the hard drives may come from stock so it is easier to put the drives into a hotswap server/SAN and wipe the drives/check/repair and image the drives while still in the server. Doing it this way means we only need to setup one PC at a time rather than having 20-40 PCs all powered and connected at the same time. Our refurbishment scenario is a little different to the typical business install.

Yes, each HDD needs to become the drive in the refurbished PC and so must boot to Windows Vista/7/8.1 (and soon 10).

Each HDD will have been checked for errors before attempting to copy the image onto it. Probably reformatted to one partition.

HDD sizes may be different.

Hi guys,

I’m a newbie looking at methods to copy images to multiple hard drives. Not used FOG at all.

I’m using sysprep and Ghost to create images. I then want to copy the image to multiple hard drives that will later be installed in refurbished PCs.

These hard drives may be in a FOG server or in a SAN box.

Can I use FOG to do what I need? If so, what is the starting point?