USB disconnected imaging with ZCM 10

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I thought of that but was trying to have desktop only have to carry one device. All good suggestions, but what I would really like is to figure out how to make a ZCM bootable usb. I think some have done it in Zen 7 but nothing in ZCM yet that I can find. Even instructions on how it cuold be done would be great. I am still looking into Larry's suggestion, but I need to install Vista or Windows 7 (which I don't have currently) to get started, if I am reading the WinPe stuff correctly.

True - you do need a Vista or Win7 machine to create the drives (not to run the WAIK for XP though). I use a VM session myself for that.

There was a Cool Solutions article about doing what you want for ZEN7, and I would think it would be the same for ZCM.

The big advantages for USB-based as I described are a) Much faster than regular imaging (about 4 minutes for a Compaq D820), and b) Much easier to add new disk or network drivers so you don't have to wait until an imaging update comes out to image machines with new controllers.