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Gabrielasip
Jun 23, 2026Bronze Contributor
Innstalling windows on 30 gaming PCs
Is it possible to get a windows install below 32Gb? I don't care about hybernation and sleep among other things. My plan is to run sysprep after installing the programs i want (steam, epicgames,...
COLEETHAN_OFFICIAL
Jun 24, 2026Copper Contributor
Skip the raw disk image and capture a WIM instead. After sysprep, boot a WinPE USB and run DISM Capture-Image on the OS partition. It only grabs real files and compresses them, so a trimmed install with Steam, Epic and Discord lands well under 15GB, not 32. Run powercfg /h off and compact.exe /CompactOS:always before capturing to shrink it further.
For deploying to all 30, look at FOG Project over your 1Gb line. Its multicast pushes the image to every PC at once, which is exactly where Clonezilla chokes doing them one by one. Way less hands-on than the Mint dd route.
(nice combo btw, those 3070 boxes will fly)