The issue of total cost of ownership has surfaced on radar screens everywhere. IT managers have come to accept as fact that, in many cases, the balance of the cost equation has shifted to outlays related to installing, configuring, tuning, and supporting new PC s. The situation is similar for managers looking to upgrade existing PC s, or those who need to revert a machine to a known initial state. One solution that reduces much of the associated pain, as well as cost and time, is disk cloning software. Today's technology enables managers to create fully standardized hardware and software environments, based on a single PC installation that has already been fully configured and tested.
Most users start with a clean, freshly formatted system on which the operating system is installed.
Once the system installation and configuration has been thoroughly tested, a disk image is created. This image can then be copied to any number of PC s, thereby creating completely identical installations. Copy the entire contents to one hard drive to another. Create an image file of one drive, and use this image to create clones of the original. Copy the contents of one partition to another.