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Upgrading old XP PC to larger HD and Windows 7
I have an old Dell Dimension 5100 running XP with a 150GB HD and only 1GB of RAM. I'm going to check with Dell if the system will support Win7 as know I can upgrade the RAM to 4GB which I believe is the min needed for Win 7. Assuming this is the case I am wondering if I can also upgrade the HD to a 320GB one I have spare. My cheapest route to upgrade is I can access a cheap achademic upgrade from XP to Win 7 Pro.
So the question is how do I get from XP on one drive to Win 7 on the other drive since the upgrade only operates on the drive with XP installed. I can either:
a) Do a clean install on Win7 on the XP HD and then do something fancy to move the whole thing to the new HD
b) Do the fancy transfer first and then upgrade to Win7
I suspect the answer will be to do the clean install first and then use something like System image and restore tools in Win7 to transfer over? I did find the tutorial on using sysprep in Win7, but not sure if that is in additional to the system image method or a differnet memthod. If any one could guide me on the best steps that would be much appreciated.
Mike