I used Norton Ghost to make an image of my disk without XP.
After I had installed Vista, I installed all of the other programs
that were on my computer before the upgrade from the image file.
I did not copy them, I recovered them.

All of the programs worked.


"huwyngr" <Hugh_Wyn_Griffith@simpilot.net> wrote in message
news:VA.00000449.0018cf70@unspam.tampabay.rr.com.. .
> In article <#oZK5hQwHHA.484@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>, I'ecus wrote:
>
>> ... 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?
>
> If you mean make an image of what is installed under XP and use that to
> reinstall under VISTA (or rather to avoid reinstalling but jusst to copy)
> then I doubt very much if that will work.
>
> Also by definition an image is an image and when you reverse it onto a
> drive you get an image -- I don't think it will just add the image onto
> the installation that is there.
>
> I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong and you can correct me if I've
> misunderstood the bit I quoted.
>