Help to migrate from XP to Windows 7

The PC that my family uses to synch our iphones and ipods has crapped out and will not boot and runs Windows XP.. The weird thing is the whole issues started when my son said that all of his music libraries were gone. So after researching the issue, I was able to restore everything back to an archived itunes library from back in November. A few days later, the PC wont even boot, is seems something is corrupt in the boot sector. If I add the hard drive to a PC, I can actually read the data. So on to my question.
I am building a new PC which will have windows 7 64 bit. So my question is, what would the best method be to migrate everything from my XP hard drive to my new Windows 7 PC? I don't even know what version of Itunes the XP machine was running. Is there a way to look at some xml file on the XP machine to find out? I have read other posts on this topic and they seem to get somewhat complicated based on what the old machine(XP)'s folder structure was set to. I don't recall ever switching to the new folder structure so I am sure it will not match the new iTunes version on my Windows 7 Machine.
Thanks in advance for an advice, it is greatly appreciated.
Sprybry

Hi,
When you backed up the data, did you use the default setting? Or did you choose the files you needed to backup?
Files under a profile should all be backed up, except when you created an independent .pst file and imported the data into it.
You can try Don's suggestion, and we can also post this question to Windows Client forum:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-us/home?category=w7itpro
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Melon Chen
TechNet Community Support

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