"Dale "Mad_Murdock" White" wrote

I agree, though I'm partial to Symantec's Norton Ghost. which at their
current rate, will probably buy Acronis in the next year or so

"Rock" wrote

"Jerry Hughes" wrote

Hi Dale, thanks for your info. Actually, the notebook is a month old
Dell
Inspiron E1705 and I was really surprised that I could buy this notebook
so
close to the release of Vista and still have all this work to do, as far
as
updating drivers! What's more, a friend of mine bought a new Dell and
will
have to go through the same thing but instead of doing the work, is
going to
drop it off to have Vista installed. Man, can't imagine that service is
going to do all the updating, uninstalling, etc., that should be done,
properly.

I will have to look into how to preserve my XP config before
installing
Vista. Haven't the foggiest but I guess it's better to be safe than
sorry.
I'm hoping the Vista DVD will mention that option before installing
Vista and
if so, I will certainly choose that option. Thanks for that advice!

Easy / best way is to get drive imaging software like Acronis True Image,
and image the XP installation to an external hard drive, USB or Sata.
ATI works in Vista too, so you have both bases covered.

Bite your tongue. They gobbled up Powerquest and Drive Image some time ago.
Still use that on XP. Just moved to ATI for Vista. Symantec tends to ruin
everything they buy, though they did take the good features of DI and moved
them into Ghost. I haven't worked with any of the Ghost versions.

--
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]