Overview
ImageW is a 32 bit imaging tool from Terabyte Unlimited licensed through Landesk. ImageW (also known as Image for Windows) is a program for creating and restoring images of partitions or disks.
Usage
ImageW has both a robust GUI and many command line options. Read through the Users Guide linked below for a complete list of the command line options. The GUI will also provide you with the equivalent command line at the last screen before you start the imaging process.
Examples
The following templates should not be used by other departments since they often use accounts and shares specific to OIT. Instead, groups interested in using similar templates should make a copy of them and modify the template to use the appropriate accounts and shares for their department.
OIT-ProvisioningTemplate-BackupHardDrive PUBLIC - This template is designed to be run from within WinPE. It maps an OIT network share to the letter Z:\, then creates and image with a file name based on the computer name and time the image was taken.
The command line used for backing up the image is:
imagew.exe /b /d:w0 /f:"Z:\images\%ldHostname%-$~YYYY$-$~MM$-$~DD$-$~HHMM$" /v
OIT-ProvisioningTemplate-Windows7-v3.1 PUBLIC - This template is OIT's primary template for imaging and configuring new computers. In performs many tasks to automate the process of building a new computer (such as installing software, joining the domain, etc) but it also restores an imageW file to the computer. The command line used for restoring the image from a network drive mapped to the letter Z is:
imagew.exe /r /o /d:0 /rb:0 /f:"Z:\PR\OIT\win7_oobe_fulldrive.TBI" /x
Additional Tools
TBI Viewer - TBI Viewer lets you open .TBI images created with ImageW and extract specific files or folders
PHYLock - PHYLock is a utility that lets you capture an image while Windows is running. In most cases, this is not necessary and ImageW should just be run from WinPE