Norton Ghost Disk Image & Clone Question, please.

Question 1:   Would a hard drive image be same regardless of the generation utility such as norton or other product such as Acronis?ethod with differnt

 

Question 2:   If they are same, once hard drive image is generated and stored, it can be restored with different utility, yes?

 

Question 3:   I have an hard drive image generated with Arcronis True image, and wonder I can restore such image with norton ghost.

 

I have wonderful experinace with Dell Restore System which uses  Norton Ghost.  This bring me to the last question:

 

Queestion 4:  In my Dell computer, there is a partition with manufactured state of hard drive image came with the computer.   I have used this (DSR) and recover the crashed computer once.   Is there way to replace manufacture image with current stated of image using Norton ghost?   The beauty is that with Control + F11 I can restore the computer painlessly.    Thanks.

 

Thanks