Vista Ultimate Disk Image

Looking for advice on how to create a backup disk image.  In addition, I am looking for advice on the recovery of documents, etc... I could not restore a prior to installation on my machine, but have the folder windows.old on the main hard drive

Hello
 
What documents you want to recover?
 
You may want to take a look on the bottom of the article which will answer your question on the system image backup.
 
Back up your programs, files and system settings
http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/back-up-your-programs-system-settings-and-files

Windows.old file, I would say that refer you the below article:

How to restore your personal files after you perform a custom Windows Vista or Windows 7 installation

http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/932912

Aziz Nadeem - Microsoft Support

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