Upgrading from Win XP to Win 7

Hi ivath0,

You should be able to install Windows 7 Professional 64bit on this system without any issues. Also, Windows 7 64bit drivers are also available on Dell website for download. For downloading the drivers, click on the link: http://dell.to/15qqGcr and enter the Service Tag of your system and select the operating system. The list of the drivers will appear for download.

Please refer to the link http://dell.to/1ftNe1u for instruction on installing Windows 7. Once the Windows is installed please click on the link http://dell.to/1a6dVMG to know the correct order of driver installation.

The only drawback that you will face is, certain application which run on 32bit environment will not work as designed or may not work at all. Hope this helps. Please reply if you have any questions.

Going from XP to Windows 7 will require a clean install (wiping out everything and installing over the top of XP - there is no "upgrade" path), so you simply use your 7x64 media to install.  The only implication with running 64-bit on this machine is possible software incompatibilities, but there are more likely to be software incompatibilities with Windows 7 (versus XP) than from it being 64-bit.

Have a look at Windows Reinstallation Guide/A Clean install of Windows 7 for more details:

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