BootCamp – Imaging windows with winclone

Using a lab windows image on a dual boot mac —

  • Prepare a base windows image in Dell hardware and sysprep
  • Take an image with KACE/Ghost but don’t allow drive to boot after
    • With ghost you need to uncheck “Reboot” in the Misc Options before starting to take image
  • Physically remove hard drive from dell hardware and put it in a Mac Pro Tower but don’t let it boot yet
  • Use an external disk that has winclone loded on it to boot the mac
  • Take a winclone image
    • Before taking winclone image, set perferences to use the “special” format that is not mountable but is smaller and restores faster.

This image should then be restorable to any bootcamp windows partition using the external mac boot disk and winclone as above. After restore you’ll need to boot to the windows volume, letting sysprep complete and then run the bootcamp drivers disk for that mac model.

Add any additional software/settings, re-sysprep, and then take an image of the windows volume with DeployStudio.

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