I'm just lamenting my lot

Capt. Picard

Capt. Picard

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I want to clone 1 hard drive to 45 other hard drives in my class.
The hard drive has 2 partitions on it (Windows 10 and Ubuntu Mate)
The hard drives are all 500GB

The cloning utility is Ghost 2003. I've been using it for years.

The first series of times I used Ghost 2003 was just to copy a single Windows partition (Windows XP). Between 80GB hard drives, that just took about 7 minutes.

The second number of times was with 2 partions (Windows XP and Edubuntu). Also on 80GB hard drives that took about 30-40 minutes.

Now I'm trying to do it again ... copying 2 partitions (Windows 10 and Ubuntu Mate) on 500GB hard drives. I've done 1 so far. It has taken me almost 2 hours!!!!

And I wanted my whole class to be done for tomorrow when our new semester starts ... :(

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I don't believe the older versions of ghost support Windows 10.

You could try using something free like clonezilla. http://clonezilla.org/

Check out the server version if you want to push to all the clients at once.
 
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Greasy said:
I don't believe the older versions of ghost support Windows 10.

You could try using something free like clonezilla. http://clonezilla.org/

Check out the server version if you want to push to all the clients at once.
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No, it works just fine. Up till now I've done 3. It's just ****ing slow.

I'm running Ghost.exe with an -ir switch. That makes it copy a raw disk image (I think that's the wording).

I'm back at home at the moment. I said stuff this. It's a Sunday afternoon and I might as well enjoy it before school starts tomorrow. I'll continue tomorrow morning.

I haven't acquired the skills yet to do a server roll-out. And I won't have the time over the next couple of days to teach myself.
 
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Can you put multiple hard drives in the same machine and do several clones at once? It seems like your processor should be able to handle more than one copy at a time, and as long as you're reading from different drives I'd think it would work.
 
Nagorak said:
Can you put multiple hard drives in the same machine and do several clones at once? It seems like your processor should be able to handle more than one copy at a time, and as long as you're reading from different drives I'd think it would work.
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Interesting idea ... never thought of it. I'll try it. Thanks.
 
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