@dustinb3403 said in Cross Post - Restoring Windows 7 Image Without a Repair disk or Installation Media:
@ezacal said in Cross Post - Restoring Windows 7 Image Without a Repair disk or Installation Media:
@dustinb3403 I appreciate the recommendation of alternate imaging software and i personally would love to use them but my mission is to get the VHDs stored in the windows image to transfer over directly to a blank HDD, no matter the method used the windows image must be the source of the restoration.
This is the issue here. He is stating he must use Windows Recovery to restore the operating system.
Not sure of why or what requirement this is other than
@ezacal said in Cross Post - Restoring Windows 7 Image Without a Repair disk or Installation Media:
@dustinb3403 ah yes i neglected to mention we are able to clone the drive via clonezilla but a lot of the times the users have to continue work while we send out a new drive, so as of now i only have a windows image to work with, with the constraint of not being able to use a repair disk
Where he says the users have to be able to use their systems.
Which the answer to this is an Agent based backup solution (Veeam Endpoint, UrBackup etc) can all write to remote storage and can be written to new drives that then get sent out to the user to physically remove the hard drive from their system to install this "restored image".
There are potential issues with this. Restoring a computer image that's 3 months old could easily find a situation where the restore has a different computer password with the network, etc.