The disk contained a complete image of the drive minus XP.
I don't know how the processed worked, but it did.


"huwyngr" <Hugh_Wyn_Griffith@simpilot.net> wrote in message
news:VA.0000044b.00220ceb@unspam.tampabay.rr.com.. .
> In article <#AJ8aaawHHA.4544@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>, Jerry Grabill
> wrote:
>
>> I used Norton Ghost to make an image of my disk without XP.
>
> I still don't understand this -- so what was on the disk? The files to
> install the programs you wanted?
>
>> 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.
>
> I could understand, with GHOST being able to recover files from within
> the image, that you could be able to extract the files needed to
> install the applications but is that what l'ecus wants to do -- and why
> bother to do it this way?
>
> What I was saying before was that if he was making an image of
> installed applications then restoring those to the new VISTA drive
> would not write their information to the registry etc.
>