1. A computer system including instructions recorded on a computer-readable medium and executable by at least one processor of a server, the system comprising: a request handler configured to receive an image capture request for an operating system (OS) executing on the server; a pre-boot image handler configured to analyze, at the server, the executing operating system of the server and generate a pre-boot image, based on the image capture request and on the executing operating system, the pre-boot image handler being further configured to cause the at least one processor to change an existing boot procedure of a boot configuration of the server to include the pre-boot image within a modified boot procedure; and an image handler configured to execute the modified boot procedure at the server to capture an image of the operating system.