Re: Switching OS systems - Windows 7 to Vista

no you cannot recover your win7 copy/clone/backup to your vista o/s
you can only recover data

Ghost or Acronis TI and the like can create an Image of the origonal
installation and at a later date restore that image

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>I know a lot of people probably like Windows 7 by now but its given me
> several headaches and I certainly checked before installing Windows 7
> for incompatibilities ... I won' get in to my petty probs though.
>
> What I want to do is switch from Windows 7 back to Vista allthough I
> did not create a windows.old file whie installing Win7.
>
> If I was to copy my WHOLE C Drive to another hard drive and ran the
> vista recovery disk I assume I would be at day one with the Vista
> operating system back on the computer.
>
> The question is:
>
> Can I copy the full C Drive from the standby computer on top of the
> freshly re-installed Vista? I do intend to replace the register to a
> time before I installed Win7.
>
> Is this what programs like Ghost do?
>
> Any opinions would be greatly appreciated ...
>
>
> TIA
>
> Bob