Picked up an external hard drive today with the intention of backing up my system getting it ready for an OS upgrade, I’m running XP now. Reading online I see that windows 7 register all the components of a computer and if any are replaced you have to buy another copy. When I had my computer built it was built with an upgrade of the OS in mind, there is more memory than XP can use so I think it will run 7 fine.
OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name MICHAEL-802D317
System Manufacturer ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC
System Model P5W DH Deluxe
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 6 GenuineIntel ~2404 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 1201, 8/15/2006
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2111)"
User Name MICHAEL-802D317\michael
Time Zone Pacific Daylight Time
Total Physical Memory 4,096.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 1.35 GB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 3.85 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
