I had to re-deploy an HP thinclient the other day, and here are the directions to do this…
Login in as a Administrator
HP ThinState Capture
Once you launch the HP ThinState Capture tool from within the Control Panel
Click Next.
At this point, attach a disk on key (DOK) to the unit. The DOK drive letter and size are displayed.
The DOK must be greater in size than the onboard flash disk. As a result, if your thin client has 512 MB Flash, then the USB flash drive must be 1 GB.
Click Capture.
Click Yes. The HP ThinState Capture tool formats and makes the USB flash drive bootable. HP ThinState Capture will now reboot the system.
After you perform these actions, the HP ThinState Capture tool displays the following screen.
Please follow the on-screen instructions.
You can now use the USB flash drive to deploy the captured image to another HP thin client of the exact same model and hardware with equal or greater flash size capacity.
HP ThinState Deploy
To perform an HP ThinState deployment:
1. Set the boot order in the F10 System BIOS to USB boot.
2. Attach the USB flash drive to the thin client unit you wish to deploy the captured image to, and then power on the unit.
3. Follow the on-screen instructions.
July 16th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
Thanks dudde!
pretty simple and very clear!
August 25th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
You should work for HP. I spent a few hours on their web site. Then gave up and did a google search and found this, Thanx!
September 28th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
Rule of thumb: Google first, then company website.
September 28th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
… and thanks, works like a charm.
September 29th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
An additional note: You will need to edit the registry concerning auto-login. Namely you will need to change the defaultDomain to match the new computer name the wizard assigns.
January 13th, 2010 at 10:39 pm
I used the HP ThinState Capture tool to get an image of my
thinclient. After I ran the image on another client and joined
that client to our domain and then set up the AUTO LOGON I now
get the following error
WINDOWS PRODUCT ACTIVATION
A PROBLEM IS PREVENTING WINDOWS FROM ACCURATELY CHECKING THE
LICENSE FOR THIS COMPUTER
ERROR CODE 0X80070005
April 7th, 2010 at 3:18 pm
please post a link to download a aplication
favor postar o link para download do aplicativo
August 23rd, 2010 at 3:04 pm
Have you gotten this to work on a HP T5325 ThinClient? You can’t access the System Bios with F10 on this one, it’s supposed to boot from the USB by pressing the power button twice. However, I haven’t seen this work.
November 17th, 2010 at 10:09 am
In my case, my ThinClient after capture image to usb resetting same configurafion on source ThinClient. Is it normal?
May 8th, 2011 at 6:35 pm
Great stuff, so much that we book marked the article The Sillican Files » How to image a ThinClient well done
January 31st, 2012 at 4:35 pm
ID10T-proof instructions! Love it! Thank you.