Best setup for dual Snapshots

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Originally Posted by rlcohen70

OK,
just to check for understanding. It does not matter if I have two OS in the system, Rollback is system wide or should I say the complete hard drive?

It matters in that Rollback has to be installed within each OS on the drive. So Linux wouldn't be an option.

Originally Posted by rlcohen70

To further delineate,
Dual boot
Win XP SP3
Win 7 32bit
Rollback Dr. ( i need multiple snapshots so I have to use Rollback Dr versus Drive Vaccine)

If I restore, I restore the snapshot for both systems..
That is how I understand it. Sounds like the only advantage of having the dual boot is that I can operate inside of each OS as needed.

Yes, the restore is system-wide. To be honest, my original suggestion for the dual-boot was as an alternative to having Rollback installed and I agree that there doesn't seem much benefit in having a dual-boot if RB is installed anyway. Except that you are now looking at running Win XP and Win 7, is this essential? If it was the same OS then it would be simpler to go back to a single boot system and just use Rollback to swap between the systems.

Originally Posted by rlcohen70

My last question and I do appreciate the time, this sames me days of testing... Is that If I image Sector by Sector and Acronis does offer a complete HD image, I can run newsid to issue a new system ID, but what about registering a new License. I have a vol license program for Win XP but not Win 7. those will be using the independent licenses from each of the units..

Thank you both again for your time...

There's an article here which describes how to create a standard Windows 7 image for distribution. It's not for the faint-hearted but the video tutorial makes it seem less daunting . I'm still not too sure how the licensing side of it works but it may just be a question of activating each installation with the required info.

The way it works I think you would have to:

Set up a "technician's" pc
Set up a target PC with all necessary software
Image target PC and transfer image back to technician's PC
Create modified image from technician's PC and save for restoring to multiple PC's

In your case you would then have to restore the image, install Rollback, make changes and then re-image with Acronis.

I think!

.....or maybe using XP might with your volume license might be a better option .

Graham