Thread: Re-Imaging a computer

Re: Re-Imaging a computer Greetings and as Tipstaff has mentioned, a re-image generally means using Ghost or some others means to load an image quickly where as what your talking about is a re-install. To clarify what an image is, an image is a machine that you install every app that you need on it: Office, Adobe Reader, Windows updates/SP's (which can take forever on a fresh install) maybe a VPN solution and once that's done you...

welcome to DH Fat!!!!

or they may just have Ghost images to restore systems to the original state

Howdy guys. Well, I know that the old way to re-image a computer was to reformat the drive with the original Windows OS disc and just reinstall Windows. However at my tech school at the end of every year, they say they have to re image all the computers but I never see an IT guy come in with a Windows OS disc. Is there another way to re image a computer without needing the Windows OS disc?

we ghost our images via network at my company so yea fun

i believe it can be done through the LAN, allowing all systems to boot off the same thing

Just to clarify: What you've mentioned, FatTwinkie, is actually a reinstall. What was mentioned by kris23 and Chaos is a true way of re-imaging. Using a program like Ghost, Acronis True Image, or the like, you can create a snapshot or image of the machine at whatever time you want. The benefit is that you have a backup of your system at the time it was imaged, so if you ever want reinstall your system, you don't have to. Just use...