I wrote here a few weeks back for advice on my plan to upgrade my
netbook from XP Home to Win7 Home Premium.  Amongst the really good
advice was that I download and run Microsoft's "Win7 Upgrade Advisor"
utility to make sure that my machine was up to the task.
  Not surprisingly, that utility reported that the low-power-consumption
Atom CPU could not run 64-bit code and lacked the virtualization support
needed toi run the "XP mode" included with Win7 Ultimate and Pro
versions.
  So this weekend I pulled the original 160 GB hard drive and replaced
it with a 750 GB drive and installed Win7.  I have a USB adaptor for
2.5" drives, but so far the netbook doesn't recognize the old drive
attached that way -- there are a small number of files I'd like to save,
and that meant the install couldn't see the XP installation and so I had
to call Microsoft in order to activate the new OS.
  I've saved space to install Ubuntu as well, and I'm very pleased with
this machine's new lease on life.

David Gillett


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