Migrating from Windows XP 32-bit to Windows 7 64-bit

[ng_reader]

Okay, that's good, that's the kind of thing I wanted to know. So the
Windows directory got saved, what about the "program files" directory, and
the "documents and settings" directory? Did they also get backed up?

Also did you have to install from within Windows, or did you have to boot
from CD and install?


So I assume it got infected under XP rather than Win7?


Here's the Microsoft official method:

How to log on to your Windows XP-based computer if you forget your
password or if your password expires
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321305

Here's a bunch of others, most seem to be password crackers:

win xp admin password reset - Google Search
http://www.google.ca/search?q=win+x...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a


No, actually I may be dating myself here, but I've been Yousuf longer than
he's been Yousuf. He's been around on Earth bit longer overall, but not as
Yousuf.


I'd like to make the migration even simpler by using this utility:

Upgrade XP to Windows 7, hassle-free — Zinstall
http://www.zinstall.com/

I've been carrying out an email conversation with them, and I asked them
whether I should be making a dual-boot out of this thing, and they said
specifically, "no, install it over top of the existing XP". So this may
explain how they do it. It doesn't matter, I've managed to make a clone of
my boot disk onto an external eSATA disk now, and I can conceivably go
either way now, installing it overtop or dual-booting, both options are
now available to me.

Yousuf Khan

Hi there and read through most of your post and chuckled a bit. All the old
stuff was saved, not so much backed up. If you know "explorer" then you know
how to find it. Of course with an 80GB hard disk about half of it is now
packed with the data from the old XP install.

There was no way, no way, the machine was letting me back into Windows. So,
I just stuck the Win7 Disk in the DVD drive and the machine booted from it.
Nice. Of course the disk was a Vista Upgrade disk so I didn't think it would
work. But it did.

Yeah, I think I might look closer into the password hack things, but, my
guess the machine is no longer running XP, it thinks and runs only Win7 now.
So the way those things work it might be folly. I still have a couple of
weeks to fart around. Maybe more...

Cheerio.

Ted

 

[JessicaD]

Yousuf Khan,
If you install Windows 7 to your existing Windows XP partition you will no longer be able to boot into Windows XP as you will be forced to move your Win XP files to a folder labeled, "Windows.old" and perform a custom ("clean") installation of Windows 7.
If you wish to be able to use both Windows 7 and Windows XP simultaneously, have you considered using XP Mode virtually on your Windows 7 desktop?
To learn more about XP Mode and Virtual PC please see the following link: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx
Jessica
Microsoft Windows Client Team