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In a few months time I am going to perform once in a decade upgrade on my Windows installation that I still have running at my computers. My earthquake monitoring computer is currently running Windows 2000. But when the time comes for Windows 7 to be installed on it. I need to figure out a way to upgrade the Os. I do not want to do a clean install.

Is it possible to do a Windows 2000 to Windows XP and then to Windows 7 in a way that it works without problems.

Thanks for the help.

I do believe that is possible to upgrade in such a manner, although a heck of a lot of work!

Sure would be a whole lot easier to just backup the stuff you want to save and do a clean install though. Can almost guarantee you run into problems. It's just the nature of Windows. Especially trying to upgrade from that far back!!

As far as getting Windows 7 to run and look sweet, can almost guarantee you'll need to upgrade the video card, at least also, not to mention you don't say anything about how much memory you have installed.

I am not going to do this in one run. First I am going to move my gaming hard drive (or PC) to Windows 7. After that I can upgrade Windows 2000 to Windows XP and update it and run that for a few months before I update that to Windows 7.

The earthquake monitoring computer has AMD 3400+ CPU and 1GB ram. Adding more ram is not going to be a issue for me. The only reason why I need to update it is to add a proper IPv6 support to it. But I plan to move the data from my geophones to IPv6 connection soon as I can.

Dr.Zoidberg, on 24 October 2010 - 06:16 PM, said:

I realize this was posted over a month ago, but there is no direct upgrade path from 2000 to 7. If you truly want to stick with upgrades, the following is the only way I know of to perform upgrade installs from 2000 to 7.

2000-->XP-->Vista-->7

Unfortunately, there's no direct upgradeability from XP to 7, so you're stuck using Vista as an intermediary OS. Same said for 2000 to Vista, you're stuck using XP.

Damn, not sure how I missed this one either. XP->Vista isn't a viable upgrade either. There were major boot-loader/architecture changes at that point and the only thing you'll get is a "mothballed" copy of the old OS in a sub folder on C:.

Closest you could get is a jump from XP-to-7 using the Easy Transfer wizard

I did upgrade Windows 2000 to Windows XP without a problem. I am going to run that for the next year or two before I upgrade to Windows Vista, before upgrading to Windows 7 (or whatever).

"Closest you could get is a jump from XP-to-7 using the Easy Transfer wizard"

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xp>vista sp2>w7 > w7 sp1