Timeline for What is the most efficient, native way to image a Windows partition?
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| Jun 4 at 11:42 | comment | added | JW0914 | @HansSchulze (this should have gone under the answer) It's three steps, so I'm not sure how that's complicated: (1) Boot to WinRE (2) Identify drive letters (3) Capture a WIM. All other information is comprehensive. Acronis is beset by the exact same issues all third-party solutions have and WinPE/WinRE is still required to be booted to after a third-party image is restored; I go over those under section What are the pros and cons of native versus 3rd party? | |
| Jun 3 at 21:54 | comment | converted from answer | Hans Schulze | All of this sounds too complicated. I've used Acronis True Image and other tools so many times over the last 15 years because it's easy, free, and quick (sparse). Other tools like AIOMI, etc, haven't tried them yet. | |
| Mar 21 at 16:04 | history | edited | JW0914 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Updated Annotation formatting and added link showing "image" is the correct terminology per Microsoft ; Modified first bullet's question to be non-leading
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| Mar 6 at 1:04 | history | edited | ﾤ ﾡ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 11 at 8:32 | history | edited | ﾤ ﾡ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 15, 2023 at 11:34 | history | edited | JW0914 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 14, 2023 at 17:15 | comment | added | cybernard | You can't compare a SSD to an HDD. If I use fast compression with an SSD its even faster than max/recovery on a SSD. | |
| Jul 14, 2023 at 17:05 | comment | added | JW0914 |
@cybernard Imaging Windows to an SSD via dism with compression set to max/recovery has been faster in my experience than using fast with an HDD (I cover this in the accepted answer). There is zero setup time for dism||imagex. No user will ever be using SCCM, which is now MEM, as the license alone is thousands of dollars - MEM, and its predecessor SCCM, are only for businesses managing hundreds to thousands of machines and OEMs, as installing and imaging is done via LTI/ZTI Task Sequences like this. Clonezilla isn't a native Windows solution.
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| Jul 14, 2023 at 15:13 | comment | added | cybernard | The question of how the OP defines efficiency comes to mind. If your focused on speed you will choose no compression, but if you focused on image size you will choose max compression and slowest speed. These are exclusive of each other you can not have the smallest image size at the fastest speed. Also the question of time to actually image a computer comes up, which includes all setup time. For example, If your an average user,who never installed sccm before, setting up SCCM that could take days to configure. Making a bootable clonezilla usb takes <1 hour. | |
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| Feb 23, 2021 at 12:44 | vote | accept | JW0914 | ||
| Dec 25, 2020 at 14:33 | history | edited | JW0914 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 28, 2020 at 15:13 | history | edited | JW0914 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 15, 2020 at 16:17 | comment | added | J... | @JW0914 All that's fine, but it's still a loaded question. It presupposes that the native method is, in fact, generally the best method in asking why. | |
| Nov 15, 2020 at 13:15 | history | edited | JW0914 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added disclaimer regarding a factually inaccurate answer that is still receiving upvotes
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| Nov 15, 2020 at 13:10 | comment | added | JW0914 | @J... As to loaded, not at all, as there's only one native way to image partitions in Windows for the last ~20yrs. I became exasperated continually addressing parts of these in comments and as answers on cloning issues questions, so I wanted to create a Q and A that addressed them in-depth, hoping to also squash misnomers & factually inaccurate info along the way (appears to be harder than it really should be since many aren't bothering to read the source links). | |
| Nov 15, 2020 at 13:10 | comment | added | JW0914 | @gronostaj While I had in mind precisely what I wanted to address in the answer, the questions are both thoughtful & pertinent. | |
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| Sep 1, 2020 at 19:36 | vote | accept | JW0914 | ||
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| Aug 31, 2020 at 13:42 | comment | added | J... | @gronostaj More to the point, rather than what it isn't, we can say that it is a loaded question. | |
| Aug 31, 2020 at 13:40 | comment | added | gronostaj | "Why is the native method generally the best method for most users?" - that's not really an honest, non-biased question. | |
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| Aug 30, 2020 at 18:58 | answer | added | harrymc | timeline score: 15 | |
| Aug 30, 2020 at 18:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/super_user/status/1300131179564281857 | ||
| S Aug 30, 2020 at 15:59 | answer | added | JW0914 | timeline score: 25 | |
| S Aug 30, 2020 at 15:59 | history | asked | JW0914 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
