OS Deployer, our disk imaging software enables you to create an image of the OS and disk partitions of the disk in your computer. After imaging a hard disk, you can store the image in the image repository configured in your environment.
The image created using OS imaging can then be deployed to a bare-metal computer, computer with a corrupted OS, or even to multiple computers simultaneously. Our hard drive imaging software supports both online and offline imaging modes to image a computer. Thus, using our comprehensive disk imaging software we can onboard huge number of workstations with minimal manual effort.
Let us now discuss some of the basic features that make up the best disk imaging software.
This method allows administrators to capture the disk image of a system when it is live and functioning in the network. This hard drive imaging method does not require a system reboot to perform Windows imaging. It finishes the work, without interrupting the user and their ongoing work.
Administrators can use this hard disk imaging method to acquire the disk image of a system in the network that is shut down. When this method is used, the system is booted into the Windows pre-installation environment, and disk imaging is performed using the WinPE component. This WinPE component can be stored within the bootable media (USB, ISO, PXE). To know more about PXE boot server, click here.
This feature helps you create an image of a single partition, multiple partitions, or an entire disk based on your requirements. You can also use this technique to take a backup of a system before performing migration, or when the system is corrupted due to technical issues.
By shrinking the disk partitions, you can reduce the space occupied by the primary partitions and logical drivers. This also helps to eliminate the disk size incompatibility errors.
Our best imaging software allows you to set the image compression level, which will minimize the size of the image and reduce the image storage space.
You can select the memory usage level for the imaging process. This ensures that the available memory is used based on the requirements.
During the process of disk imaging, drivers are automatically collected from the imaging machine and stored in the configured driver repository using our best image software.
Creating an image using our disk imaging software, OS Deployer is a seamless process with 3 simple steps. In this section we will learn how to perform the disk imaging process.
Once you've created the image, you can start with the deployment process. For example, after imaging a Windows 10 machine, you can deploy the image to any computer by booting the computer using a Windows 10 ISO media. OS Deployer also offers the option to boot machines using USB and PXE.
Disk imaging is essentially a means to copy the Operating System and the data stored in a disk from the master system to distribute it to other target computers. Automating this process is beneficial for the IT team, which OS Deployer does in a few simple steps.
Disk image is a replica or a copy of the data stored within the disks in your computer. A disk image will contain the contents of the data storage device and replicates the structure of such devices. It will also contain the OS partitions.
A disk imaging software works by copying the content stored in partitions, partition details, disk details and Os partitions. All the configurations and installed applications will be copied from the selected partitions. All these data obtained from imaging a hard drive will be stored in a network share as an image. The image can be compressed based on the user's requirements and deployed.
Let us now discuss some of the benefits of disk imaging.
A disk image comes in handy in the event of an accidental disk crash due to a virus attack or an unforeseen hardware failure. It will also be useful in deploying the captured disk image to the computers of new joiners in an organization, migrating to a new model/manufacturer or when you want to upgrade hard disk or change the existing hard disk.
OS Deployer, our computer imaging software offers its services free of charge to customers with its free edition. This edition can be used to deploy OS images for up to 4 workstations and 1 server. The free edition is equipped with various features like online/offline imaging, multicast/unicast deployment, hardware independent deployment, standalone deployment, and much more.
Disk cloning is the process of creating a replica containing the operating system and other data of one hard disk into another hard disk. While disk cloning is to create a single copy of a hard disk primarily, disk imaging is used to create an image which can then be deployed to multiple machines simultaneously.