Re: Upgrading from XP to Windows 7 64bit..

Option 3 since there is no direct upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit.

Use Windows Easy Transfer or a backup program of your choice, but not
the XP backup utility: there is no facility to read its backups in
Windows 7. Be sure you can read any backups you make in Windows 7.

Delete the partition you want to install on and leave the space empty.
Highlight the space as where you want to install Windows 7. If you do
this, the Windows 7 installer can create the 100MB system partition it
prefers for its boot files and will partition and format the remainder
for the installation.


On 06/12/2009 14:03, Hüseyin Aliz wrote:
> Hi All,
> I have currently a wish to upgrade from XP (32bit) to Windows 7 - 64bit.
> The options are:
> 1) Upgrade to MS Vista, then upgrade to Windows 7.
> 2) Make use of 3rd party software to make a inplace upgrade of XP to
> Win7 (Pcmover, zinstall etc).
> 3) Make a clean of Win7 (without formatting the disk).
> What could be best option? I am currently thinking of option 3, but in
> this case i would like to ask what folder's are moved in windows.old,
> for instance i have folders like:
> c:\data
> c:\developer
> Are they removed from the system/harddisk when Windows 7 are installed,
> untouched or moved to windows.old or what happens to them?
> Thanks in advance,
> Hüseyin A.

Thanks all

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> Option 3 since there is no direct upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit.
>
> Use Windows Easy Transfer or a backup program of your choice, but not the
> XP backup utility: there is no facility to read its backups in Windows 7.
> Be sure you can read any backups you make in Windows 7.
>
> Delete the partition you want to install on and leave the space empty.
> Highlight the space as where you want to install Windows 7. If you do
> this, the Windows 7 installer can create the 100MB system partition it
> prefers for its boot files and will partition and format the remainder for
> the installation.
>
>
> On 06/12/2009 14:03, Hüseyin Aliz wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> I have currently a wish to upgrade from XP (32bit) to Windows 7 - 64bit.
>> The options are:
>> 1) Upgrade to MS Vista, then upgrade to Windows 7.
>> 2) Make use of 3rd party software to make a inplace upgrade of XP to
>> Win7 (Pcmover, zinstall etc).
>> 3) Make a clean of Win7 (without formatting the disk).
>> What could be best option? I am currently thinking of option 3, but in
>> this case i would like to ask what folder's are moved in windows.old,
>> for instance i have folders like:
>> c:\data
>> c:\developer
>> Are they removed from the system/harddisk when Windows 7 are installed,
>> untouched or moved to windows.old or what happens to them?
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Hüseyin A.