Badly upgraded

Hey
I've recently purchased an upgrade CD from xp to windows 7 after making sure I had all the criteria right. I followed the steps to the letter but when I tried exctracting the old files I got an error message saying
"This version of update\update.exe in not compatible with the version of windows you're running. Check your computer's system information to see whether you need a x86 (32-bit) or x64(64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher."
There's even a warning message at the bottom right corner sating my Windows copy isn't genuine though I bought this and the previous one at a real store.

Also, I'm a noob.

Help, please?

TulipGirl said:

Hey
I've recently purchased an upgrade CD from xp to windows 7 after making sure I had all the criteria right. I followed the steps to the letter but when I tried exctracting the old files I got an error message saying
"This version of update\update.exe in not compatible with the version of windows you're running. Check your computer's system information to see whether you need a x86 (32-bit) or x64(64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher."
There's even a warning message at the bottom right corner sating my Windows copy isn't genuine though I bought this and the previous one at a real store.

Also, I'm a noob.

Help, please?

I don't know what you mean by "extracting the old files". Are you trying to copy out files from windows.old?

Please clarify that.