Ghost 9.0 question

[jamawass]

Hi
I've been having problems with my WinXP install since a video card driver upgrade, with reboots, blue screens. I bought Ghost 9 (before reading this forum otherwise would've bought acronis). I now want to reformat and reinstall windows and restore my data from a drive image but not the videocard drivers. Will this work? Also will all the user accounts and login passwords be saved in the image?
Thanks for your responses.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Ghost will make a complete bit-for-bit image of the drive, so everything will be included as part of the image.

 

[NightCrawler]

Should have made two images one before the video card driver upgrade and one after.

 

[jamawass]

Originally posted by: NightCrawler
Should have made two images one before the video card driver upgrade and one after.

I haven't made an image yet, so are you saying after I reinstall windows the image will overwrite my new driver install? Can I just "import" my software settings without the drivers?

 

[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: jamawass

Originally posted by: NightCrawler
Should have made two images one before the video card driver upgrade and one after.

I haven't made an image yet, so are you saying after I reinstall windows the image will overwrite my new driver install? Can I just "import" my software settings without the drivers?

Nope, the imaging software doesn't work that way.

 

[jamawass]

So if I do a fresh install what how should I restore my programs, and software from my image.

 

[NightCrawler]

Do this:

1. Your profile and settings won't be recoverable unless you save the profile. Logon as a different user and save the user profile that you normally use. Mine is a whopping 100 megs.

2. Format, Reinstall Windows XP

3. Open the Ghost image that you created and copy the important files out to wherever you want them.

4. Without the reg setting many of the apps will have to be reinstalled.

Could also try a repair install which could save you a lot of time. Basically pop the Windows XP cd in the cd rom drive and it will detect the windows install and ask if you want to repair it.

 

[jamawass]

What's the file extension for profiles and after reformatng how do I import my profile? Thanks again.