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but my friend of course you can: 1) put image on a disk 2) put disk in a pc 3) DO NOT start pc 4) boot from winXP CD 5) first screen press ENTER NOT repair 6) second screen press R NOT esc 7) continue installing 8) all drivers,programs,everything sould be as they where. That's install-repair or reinstall Am I loosing your point, friend, in that it is possible to make image of XP on one machine and then install XP from the image onto another with completely different hardware ? This is to ask: - if for example one has a desktop with Pentium 4 + NVIDIA + Realtek + XP Pro on partition C, and a notebook with Core 2 Duo + ATI + Creative + Vista on partition C, can he then make image of XP and then use the image to install XP to the notebook system ? Will XP installed this way function ? Anyway, kwheeler7's way is better.

Hello, I'm a fan of the new Windows Vista Flip 3D Feature. Bug: - Flip 3D starts and proceeds very well, smoothly, accurately, very nicely and everything. However, when I release the Win key (or press Enter), the flipping ends at the foremost window tile and I always get a 50/50 chance, 50 % chance that the foremost window lands all right without any visual bugs and 50 % chance that the whole image of or a part of the window image from where I started flipping shortly OVERLAYS the foremost window. This produces a kind of visual flashing, which really spoils the aero flip 3d function. I have the system + SP 1 + all the drivers PROPERLY installed. I get the bug even when my system is not overloaded and when just a few standard windows are open. Did anyone have this or similar bug ? Suggestion: - make an update to fix the bug - make Flip 3D customizable : hotkey, layout

Hi kwheeler7, hello everybody ! I can hardly add more to what's been replied here. I can only tell about my own experience with the dual-booting process. I have both XP and Vista installed on different partitions. When I once started my XP > Control Panel > System > and set the time to 0 to display boot options, I found that I could boot my XP only, pressing F8 did not display an entry to choose to boot Vista, and reverting to the default time to display boot options did not allow me to boot Vista. Thus, I could not switch to booting Vista. And there's no microsoft utility to do that. I found EasyBCD by NeoSmart Technologies and VistaBootPRO by ProNetworks I tried all those versions and found EasyBCD 1.1 to be the best utility for dual boot, with all features working, in XP and Vista. So, I successfully use EasyBCD 1.1 for the dual boot purpose. Run EasyBCD Click "Configure BCD" tab In the "Default OS", choose your OS to boot next time Click "Save settings" EasyBCD 1.1 is the best version. On your post, kwheeler7, what do you actually want to do : If what you want to do is to install your old XP of the old xp machine, from the Acronis image, then you can't do it, for your old xp machine's hardware does differ from your new machine's. Just freshly install XP to a partition, I prefer XP on Disk C, and Vist on any other, 'cause unlike XP, Vista sees any partition on which installed as C. If you have documents within the image, then find a way to read from the image, or temporarily extract the image to a different partition, copy the documments you need, and delete what you don't need. Regards,