New Machine Every 2-3 Months, and KEEP OS?

temporalwar

temporalwar

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I need a option for a user that Gets a new Machine every 2-3 Months that would like to keep the same windows 7x64 Home Prem OS loaded with programs/user data
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each machine is custom, Gigabyte's latest board/recent video cards
some of the machines mixed in could be AMD/Nvida/Intel based on needs

your thoughts?
 
Just a guess but . . .

(((Retail OS + Image of drive) - old drivers) + new drivers)= Win!
 
Win7 is pretty good about hardware. You should be able to sysprep it and then image and have it work with just about any machine.
 
DeChache said:
Win7 is pretty good about hardware. You should be able to sysprep it and then image and have it work with just about any machine.
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Or perhaps just take an image of it (or keep the hard drive until you replace the hard drive) and do a repair install. Windows 7 is really good at this kind of stuff.
 
Most of the time you'll probably get it to run OK. Once in a while when going to a motherboard with completely different architecture..like say from a nice Intel based board to some ghastly Via (ugh) based chipset board with some wonky drive controllers...it may fight a bit. May be able to settle it down after a reboot,

If you take a drive and move it from motherboard to motherboard..after a while it will have visited quite a few different motherboards and get pretty wonky. So after 6 months this install of WIndows has transferred across 6 machines and will be pretty messy.

Versus taking an image from a "first" image each time you get a new mobo/system...thus the image only transfers once.
 
YeOldeStonecat said:
Most of the time you'll probably get it to run OK. Once in a while when going to a motherboard with completely different architecture..like say from a nice Intel based board to some ghastly Via (ugh) based chipset board with some wonky drive controllers...it may fight a bit. May be able to settle it down after a reboot,

If you take a drive and move it from motherboard to motherboard..after a while it will have visited quite a few different motherboards and get pretty wonky. So after 6 months this install of WIndows has transferred across 6 machines and will be pretty messy.

Versus taking an image from a "first" image each time you get a new mobo/system...thus the image only transfers once.
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^^This

I've had better than expected luck with doing a windows image backup (if W7HP has that, I've been using Enterprise), installing the image on similar hardware, and it will at least boot to the point I can update drivers. If you have an early image with programs installed you can try to image new hardware, then use Easy Transfer to move current files & settings.
 
Yeah good advice here. Keep the image on a disk then just make sure the user replaces each board with a similar chipset. Intel x58 chipset is probably the best best for this power user.
 
It is best to use sysprep when creating generic images that will work on any hardware. Do this and you will be good. To transfer user data use a migration tool like USMT4 or the easy transfer wizard.
 
Give the user a VM?
Why do they get new machine every few months? do they need the CPu power or video card power?
 
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