You should be able to boot into ghost using the CD that you installed ghost from. This needs to be in the CD drive at startup and you might have to change the device boot order in your computers bios so that the CD drive boots first and uses the Ghost disc. The button to enter the bios varies on different systems but it usually tells you on the screen that appears when the computer first starts up.
Once you get the cd booted, the software should guide you through restoring the image.
Having a look at the Ghost website I don't think the trial version can restore files. Not sure if the full version would restore an image made by the trial version.
can I install an old version of Windows XP Home Edition and then copy all of my files back to it including the windows directory making it Windows XP Professional???
You won't be able to convert it to professional no. You might however be able to install the version of windows you've got and install the trial again and if it will allow you to restore the image you made earlier then you could restore it back to how it was before the crash. I don't know if the trial will allow that though. And installing windows again will wipe everything on your hard disk so you need to make sure you have another backup of important files before you wipe the disk incase the ghost backup you made can't be restored.
Did the windows xp pro come on this computer or was it an upgrade or such?
What is the make and model of computer?
If you want to restore from the Norton Ghost you are going to have to spend the money on the real program, this is the only way you are going to restore the windows xp pro.
it came that way I have no idea its an old Dell I got from were I work
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