I think Microsoft did HP a favor.
Have you tried Mojavie?
Intel is biting off the wrong bark... once the low-end laptop users get a load of the UAC they will never buy a Microsoft product again.
I mean this is actually a much sadder day for Microsoft and Intel as a couple than HP.
HP will survive.
Microsoft one upon a time used a version of Powerquest Deploycenter or something like it.
They bundled a tiny copy in ADS 1.0(Active Deployment Services or something like that) as imgdeploy, at 512 KB its likely to be the smallest utility you can find for free (as in cost not code) from a commercial software company that can do basically anything ghost can do. It's block based so it should fairly flexible operating system wise. The only difficult thing is downloading the large wrapper that is ADS 1.0 and sifting through it just to get the imgdeploy.exe. The same binary does capture and deploy.
If you have a mini-me operating system like the winpe, bart or something you could wrap a.hta application to give it a smiley interface, otherwise you can figure out how to use it from the cmd prompt usage message. You don't really have to read the docs.
In ADS 1.1 I believe they replaced this with ImageX which is a small utility for creating wimages.. think swim-sandwiches.. and you'll get the pronounciation. Wimages based on the.wim (no I'm not kidding;-) whimsical isn't it?) are file based and go hand in hand with Vista installations. They might be more to your liking if your thinking incrementals since they are file based.
There is a tar like utility for windows called str or something that is very tiny and does the streaming archive thing.
There are a bazillion answers to this.. but those should get you started.. and don't forget Bacula if you have a fast gig switch.. you probably need to get the images off and on your hard disk fairly fast.
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I think Microsoft did HP a favor. Have you tried Mojavie? Intel is biting off the wrong bark... once the low-end laptop users get a load of the UAC they will never buy a Microsoft product again. I mean this is actually a much sadder day for Microsoft and Intel as a couple than HP. HP will survive.
They bundled a tiny copy in ADS 1.0(Active Deployment Services or something like that) as imgdeploy, at 512 KB its likely to be the smallest utility you can find for free (as in cost not code) from a commercial software company that can do basically anything ghost can do. It's block based so it should fairly flexible operating system wise. The only difficult thing is downloading the large wrapper that is ADS 1.0 and sifting through it just to get the imgdeploy.exe. The same binary does capture and deploy.
If you have a mini-me operating system like the winpe, bart or something you could wrap a .hta application to give it a smiley interface, otherwise you can figure out how to use it from the cmd prompt usage message. You don't really have to read the docs.
In ADS 1.1 I believe they replaced this with ImageX which is a small utility for creating wimages.. think swim-sandwiches.. and you'll get the pronounciation. Wimages based on the .wim (no I'm not kidding ;-) whimsical isn't it?) are file based and go hand in hand with Vista installations. They might be more to your liking if your thinking incrementals since they are file based.
There is a tar like utility for windows called str or something that is very tiny and does the streaming archive thing.
There are a bazillion answers to this.. but those should get you started.. and don't forget Bacula if you have a fast gig switch.. you probably need to get the images off and on your hard disk fairly fast.