Imagex generates a file based image rather than a block based image like ghost and the others do. You can mount an Imagex wim file and go in and easily add/remove/replace files.
...Tim -----Original Message----- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com] Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 9:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Open source 'ghost' product? On 4/30/2010 11:03 AM, Ben Scott wrote: >> Aside from ghost (which pretty well is flawless) the next best "free" >> thing is probably imagex properly configured for _windows_. > > Is ImageX available for Windows XP? ImageX will capture XP disk images. You don't get all the fancy deployment image servicing features you get with with NT6.0+ though (ie add drivers directly to image, slipstream .msu packages directly into image). > That statement worries me. What does ImageX actually do if it's not > a "true image"? I believe the thinking is "the only true image is a dd dump". ImageX gets everything that Ghost and Acronis TrueImage and DriveImage XML and <insert endless product list here> does. -- Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
