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I am not interested in the operating system settings, only the users data. I want to be able to apply an image over an existing installation without overwriting the user data. Deleting the windows directory is not a big deal to me. I just want to make sure there is not a more proper way. Thanks for the info.

I know that imagex is a file based image and one advantage is that you do not have to wipe out existing files to install the OS. My question is, what is the proper way to apply an imagex image over an existing OS. I played with this when Vista came out and the only way I could get a bootable OS was to delete the windows directory prior to applying the image. This, basically, worked but I want to find out if there is a better or more proper way to apply an image over an existing OS. Thanks for any information!