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Hardware and OS upgrade
Time to upgrade to Win 7 however I have a bit of a dilemma! Along with wanting to upgrading the OS from XP Home to Win 7 Home Premium 64, I also want to perform a hardware upgrade as well which will include new Motherboard, CPU, RAM and Hard Disc. My question is do I upgrade the hardware first then re-activate XP? This will most likely require a Win XP Repair install to get the computer working, or at the very most re installing XP all together. Or do I perform the OS upgrade first then upgrade the hardware.
Just to note that only have 1Gb of RAM installed with my current XP hardware configuration which does not meet the min requirements for Win 7 64bit
Does XP have to be activated to upgrade to Win 7 or just present on the system?
One more question...if I format Win 7 down the road (use to do this about once a year to clean out the bugs in XP) do I have to install XP again to install Win 7 upgrade?
Thanks