Setting up a test machine

I'm looking to set up an improved test environment. I use VMWare to easily set up a clean environment (fresh installation). This works OK for WinXP and simple tests, but our software is very memory and CPU intensive and VMWare is just too slow with Win7 & a full functionality test.

So I'd like to set up a system with a big hard disk that I can store disk images to. I've tried Clonezilla but it's quite cumbersome to use. I'm looking for a solution where I can boot from a usb drive which will then show me a list of the following:

• make new image
• restore image

and 'restore image' should give me a list with the available images (win xp, win vista, win 7, win 7 with office installed, etc) So basically just like VMWare, but non-virtualized.

I would think this would be something obvious, but for the life of me I can't find any software that advertises it can 开发者_JAVA百科do this. 10 years ago, Norton Ghost could do something like this but I don't remember how easy it was to use, and anyway it seems that current versions focus more on being an end-user backup tool.

So, any advice on what is the best way to set up such a test environment? Any specific disk imaging software that works well, or other tips on how to set this up? Thanks.

ISO Buster might help you to put mirror images to set your required Environment.

You might want to take a look at it :

• http://get2pc.com/isobuster%202.8o36c-1-w-0-0

• http://www.isobuster.com/help.php?help=285link text

• http://download.cnet.com/IsoBuster/3000-2248_4-10208087.html

Good Luck !