How to Migrate XP to Windows 7

 Recently Microsoft has officially announced that security updates for Microsoft XP OS going to stop by end of 2013. There are many home users as well as corporate users they still use XP as their client OS since a long time. Now, It is the time to upgrade your OS to a better and secure version. Currently we have two choices Windows 7 and Windows 8. Both has its own advantages and disadvantages, that I will discuss in my next post.

How to Migrate XP to Windows 7

Let us look into Windows 7 edition :

1- Windows 7 Starter
2- Home Basic
3- Home Premium
4- Professional
5- Enterprise
6-Ultimate

How to migrate to Windows 7 from Windows XP ?

- You can not upgrade your Windows XP to Windows 7 directly. First you must keep your user content that you want to maintain when installing Windows 7 onto computer running Windows XP in a safe location. Then do clean installation of Windows 7 on that PC. When the installation is complete, you can move the user content from the safe location to the computer running Windows 7. This is known as Migration to Windows 7 from Windows XP!

There are different types of migration available to migrate user data from one computer to another.

- Side by side Migration - In this method, data is transferred from the source computer to the destination computer directly through special cable or through network. If any data lost or damaged during migration, you can go back to source computer and again transfer the data.

- Wipe and Load Migration - In this method, user data from source computer is transferred to an external storage media such as USB storage device or network share. Following this, remove the existing operation system after migrating data to external device. Then perform the clean installation of Windows 7 and import the data from external location to Windows 7.

After successful migration of data to Windows 7 , you can delete the data from external location.