This is true for Vista Ultimate, but not for Vista Home Premium Jerry.

Vista Home Premium cannot make an image of the system, which is a real pitty.

I am using "Acronis True Image Home Edition" for that purpose and it works
extremely well.

"Jerry" wrote:

> For Vista, you don't need ghost. Vista has a backup system built in which
> will backup folder/files or the whole drive. It works extremely well.
> "I'ecus" <iecus@rcn.com> wrote in message
> news:%23oZK5hQwHHA.484@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> > The older norton ghost normally make a copy of your entire HD. I see they
> > have improved much since back in the day. w/ norton 12 can I make an image
> > of everything except my xp so when I install vista, I can just run the
> > image to restore all of my programs and files?
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