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10-22-2007
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| | Re-installing programs after clean Vista install Has anyone found a way to reliably image an entire hard drive onto a second drive, then reformat the first drive, install Vista there, and restore all data files AND programs from the second drive back onto the first drive? I'm trying to find some way to avoid re-installing all settings, user accounts and apps (plus patches, upgrades, ad nauseum) after a reformat and clean install of Vista, in an upgrade from Windows XP Professional. (That's assuming a reformat is needed to get a really good clean install of Vista.) Norton Ghost? Acronis? Any thoughts would be welcome. |
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10-22-2007
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| | Re: Re-installing programs after clean Vista install Acronis True Image 11 Home http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...age/index.html Download Acronis True Image 11 Home 15 days trial http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...oad/trueimage/ -- Carey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User --------------------------------------------------------------- "Dan Richman" wrote: Has anyone found a way to reliably image an entire hard drive onto a second drive, then reformat the first drive, install Vista there, and restore all data files AND programs from the second drive back onto the first drive? I'm trying to find some way to avoid re-installing all settings, user accounts and apps (plus patches, upgrades, ad nauseum) after a reformat and clean install of Vista, in an upgrade from Windows XP Professional. (That's assuming a reformat is needed to get a really good clean install of Vista.) Norton Ghost? Acronis? Any thoughts would be welcome. |
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10-23-2007
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| | Re: Re-installing programs after clean Vista install Hi, Carey Yes, Acronis True Image can probably do the first part of what the OP wanted -- to create an exact image of one drive on another drive. But that does not help at all with with what the OP really wants to accomplish: Quote: > I'm trying to find some way to avoid re-installing all settings, user > accounts and apps (plus patches, upgrades, ad nauseum) after a reformat > and > clean install of Vista, in an upgrade from Windows XP Professional. (plus patches, upgrades, ad nauseum) from the backup image and merge them into the clean installation of Vista? Could you explain how you would do this? -Paul Randall "Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:6D096225-827F-47A1-AB87-06E283DCDC37@xxxxxx Quote: > Acronis True Image 11 Home > http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...age/index.html > > Download Acronis True Image 11 Home 15 days trial > http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...oad/trueimage/ > > -- > Carey Frisch > Microsoft MVP > Windows Shell/User > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > "Dan Richman" wrote: > > Has anyone found a way to reliably image an entire hard drive onto a > second > drive, then reformat the first drive, install Vista there, and restore all > data files AND programs from the second drive back onto the first drive? > > I'm trying to find some way to avoid re-installing all settings, user > accounts and apps (plus patches, upgrades, ad nauseum) after a reformat > and > clean install of Vista, in an upgrade from Windows XP Professional. > (That's > assuming a reformat is needed to get a really good clean install of > Vista.) > > Norton Ghost? Acronis? Any thoughts would be welcome. |
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10-23-2007
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| | RE: Re-installing programs after clean Vista install No! "Dan Richman" wrote: Quote: > Has anyone found a way to reliably image an entire hard drive onto a second > drive, then reformat the first drive, install Vista there, and restore all > data files AND programs from the second drive back onto the first drive? > > I'm trying to find some way to avoid re-installing all settings, user > accounts and apps (plus patches, upgrades, ad nauseum) after a reformat and > clean install of Vista, in an upgrade from Windows XP Professional. (That's > assuming a reformat is needed to get a really good clean install of Vista.) > > Norton Ghost? Acronis? Any thoughts would be welcome. |
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