ghost, or other cloning, drive imaging program

[derekblankmccoy]

Hi;
Im looking for a program that can make an image of a hard drive and make a bootable recovery disc sorta thingie. I need it bc i got a load of dell c610 laptops, all identical, but want to put xp on them with office and all the apps and stuff.
I heard ghost can do this, but i tried it and (v. 10) and it doesnt
any help?
thanks

 

[DaveSimmons]

Product Activation could get you in trouble when Windows Update, Office Update and/or Genuine Spyware phone home with 10 different MAC addresses tied to a single license key.

Anyway, you could use Ghost or Acronis True Image with a USB external HD. Acronis makes a bootable program CD even if not bootable image CD/DVDs.

 

[HardWarrior]

True Image is a damned fine product and will do precicsely what you want.

 

[derekblankmccoy]

True Image is brilliant!, and the trial version works FULLY! Not worried about windows update or any of that crap.

 

[Zugzwang152]

if you want ghost, you'll want to use ghost 2003 instead of the later versions which are crap.