What is the best way to clone Win7 machines?

Solution 1:

You can use sysprep which Microsoft has lots of documentation on.

Solution 2:

I personally like Symantec's System Recovery, it's easy to setup 200+ machines at once.

For a small LAN, I recommend you to use http://clonezilla.org/

  1. Burn ISO & Boot

  2. Create the image and save it to a portable device

You can get the latest version at http://clonezilla.org/downloads/stable/iso-zip-files.php