TrueImage HOME Edition 10.0 (with the updates) works great with Vista.

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...cts/trueimage/

Don't compute without it!

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
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Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!



"Kevin Young" <ky-nntp@sent.com> wrote in message
news:O0YDdk0OHHA.780@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> "Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:uCh#dD0OHHA.3668@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> 1. As the title implies it is an upgrade. You run Setup from your Vista
>> Business desktop, enter the AU pk, choose the upgrade option, and you get
>> a clean installation of Vista Ultimate (all installations of Vista are
>> clean whether you choose upgrade or custom). None of your files,
>> settings, or apps will be disturbed in the slightest.
>>
>> 2. Yes, you would start with Business again. MS recommends strongly
>> that you make an image backup of your system with it just the way you
>> want it and restore from that rather than reinstalling and reactivating a
>> chain of editions. I suggest you make two image backups, one for
>> Business as a fallback base system and one for Ultimate as your final
>> base system before further apps are added.
>>
>
> Any recommendations on a fail safe image back-up program that will work
> with Vista to create the image files?