ghost 2003 on Vista

[bimbim]

I've just bought new laptop running Vista premium which won't run Ghost 2003 ,is there anyway round this ? Thing is my old laptop running XP died & I have a ghost backup on an external drive from which I'd like to extract some hard to find programs . Would it be possible (or advisable) to put the drive from the old laptop into the new machine & extract what I need from there ?

[ACtheTROLL]

why not put it in an enclosure? ... it needn't be expensive
http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=usb+hdd+enc losure&scoring=p

however ... if ghost didn't run how do you know the other old progs will?

without the original install files ... you might not even be able to try.

this should work
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824547

or even better

virtualPC 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.asp x?********=04D26402-3199-48A3-AFA2-2DC0B40A73B 6&displaylang=en

and the how-to
http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2007/02/24/mi crosoft-virtual-pc-2007-follow-up-review/

[bimbim]

Thanks. I think i'll try the virtual PC route but your right maybe other programs won't run either