Restoring from old PC backup

Hi,
I have XP installed on my Bootcamp partition but would like to restore a backup I took from my old PC. I used Norton Ghost to create the backup image of my C drive (on about 6 DVDs) and have had to use it once to restore my PC so I know it works. Will it work if I restore over the Bootcamp partition?
Thanks

You would first have to get past the booting into the Norton CD problem. At least my version of Ghost requires the restoration start by booting into the Ghost CD.
Even if you could get that part done, you would then have the hardware incompatibility problem: attempting to restore an OS onto a completely different platform. All the hardware drivers would be wrong.
I don't think it would work, but that's just my opinion.

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