Upgrading from xppro, sp 3 to win 7 pro

hi,
my x201 thinkpad came with xppro installed, at my request; now, i want to upgrade to win 7 pro. Lenovo supplied the win 7 discs with this machine. here's the issue, which makes me feel that i made a bad choice in systems
i had thought that win 7 could be installed over xp, and that would be that. but the recovery discs sure don't say so.
the discs are labeled "operating system recovery disc," which lenov says will restore the operating system "to start the recovery process" in which all data on the hard drive "will be deleted." [i know i can creat recovery disks for xp, and copy files to an external hard drive.]
my x201 is a 32-bit system, 300 mg hard drive and 4 gigs of memory, of which only 3.? are used
i'd appreciate advice on this.
thanx!

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campus56 wrote:
hi,
my x201 thinkpad came with xppro installed, at my request; now, i want to upgrade to win 7 pro. Lenovo supplied the win 7 discs with this machine. here's the issue, which makes me feel that i made a bad choice in systems
i had thought that win 7 could be installed over xp, and that would be that. but the recovery discs sure don't say so.
the discs are labeled "operating system recovery disc," which lenov says will restore the operating system "to start the recovery process" in which all data on the hard drive "will be deleted." [i know i can creat recovery disks for xp, and copy files to an external hard drive.]
my x201 is a 32-bit system, 300 mg hard drive and 4 gigs of memory, of which only 3.? are used
i'd appreciate advice on this.
thanx!

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