Would someone please check my reasoning and comment. I am currently running WinXP Pro 32bit on a Quad core 6600 @ 2.4Ghrtz. I have 4G Ram installed and several HD installed. My system has passed the Win 7 upgrade adviser analysis as good to go. My current boot drive happens to be F:, as a result of an earlier crash and re-build. I have copied all of the current drives and contents to a new external HD in preparation for the upgrade. There is nothing else on that drive except the backup files. I plan to do a clean install of Win 7 64bit on drive C:, re-install all programs from the original files/discs, and then use drive C: as the primary boot drive. I plan to leave drive F: as it is, with WinXP on it for the present, although I do not plan to use it except if I have serious problems with Win 7 64. At the end, I hope to end up with drive C: running Win 7 64bit in a smooth installation.Can someone point out to me if I have made any mistakes in my planning or offer suggestions about a better way to go about the upgrade. I suspect that this is going to be a lot of work, but hopefully the end result will be worth it.Thanks in advance,

Would someone please check my reasoning and comment. I am currently running WinXP Pro 32bit on a Quad core 6600 @ 2.4Ghrtz. I have 4G Ram installed and several HD installed. My system has passed the Win 7 upgrade adviser analysis as good to go. My current boot drive happens to be F:, as a result of an earlier crash and re-build. I have copied all of the current drives and contents to a new external HD in preparation for the upgrade. There is nothing else on that drive except the backup files. I plan to do a clean install of Win 7 64bit on drive C:, re-install all programs from the original files/discs, and then use drive C: as the primary boot drive. I plan to leave drive F: as it is, with WinXP on it for the present, although I do not plan to use it except if I have serious problems with Win 7 64. At the end, I hope to end up with drive C: running Win 7 64bit in a smooth installation.Can someone point out to me if I have made any mistakes in my planning or offer suggestions about a better way to go about the upgrade. I suspect that this is going to be a lot of work, but hopefully the end result will be worth it.Thanks in advance,

This is almost exactly what I have done. Here is what I did:1) Copy/backup the entire contents of the C: drive onto an external/portable drive.2) I physically removed the C: drive and replaced it with a brand new one3) Installed Win7 Pro x64 and all programs (for FS9, it sucks to do this. Actually it's brutal and I'm still not finished. LOTS of add-ons to install.)4) Copy files from portable drive (old C:) onto new drive5) Test FS2004 Win76) Reinstall old C: drive(FYI, I haven't made it past #4 yet because the FS9 reinstall is such a massive effort.)Supposedly Win7 has the capability to copy all of your old files automatically. I don't trust Microsoft to do this for me. Rather just do it myself.The change from XP to Win7 is a big one, IMHO. Very different way of organizing/presenting things. I seem to be spending the majority of my time so far trying to figure out where things are and how to customize things to my liking.Hope this helps. I'm sure lots of folks who are smart have thoughts, too.

Backups? (CHECK!)Plan on Full/Clean reinstall? (CHECK!) Hardware specs up to snuff? (CHECK!)Doublechecking the validity of the backups? (To Do) I think you're good to go!I'm not terribly sure that dual-booting will be possible considering where WinXP is located, however you can give it a shot.