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Hardware Independent Image with limited resources
Hi all
New member here and hope people can point me in the right direction. I have been tasked with trying to create a hardware independent Windows 7 image for our organization. Having separate laptop and desktop images would be fine, 1 image for laptops, 1 image for desktops. The person I have replaced created an image, but every time I drop down the image I spend 20-30 minutes installing the necessary drivers from a thumb drive on most of the machines. I don't have too much experience with imaging and I don't have too many resources available. I have a PC with Symantec Ghost server and a few different kinds of desktops and laptops. The models of machines that we have are all Dell's. Laptops are D620, D630, E6400, E6410, E6500, & E6510. Desktops are Optiplex 620, 745, 760, 780, and 980's. Is it possible to create 1 image (at least 1 for laptop, 1 for desktop) that will have all the proper drivers installed when the image is brought down to the machine so I'm not spending 20 - 30 minutes installing drivers each time I drop an image down?
I have done a lot of google searching and have found a ton of websites. All of which are making me more confused and a lot of them are referencing technology I don't have access to like WDS and such. So any links or steps that members can provide would be very helpful. Thanks in advance!!!