Just like when Vista first launched and I rolled out a couple of Vista's right at the very early beginning of busy season, I'm doing it again with Windows 7. But this time I'm adding a bit of virtualization. Key to a succesful migration is keeping an image of that old deskop around just in case. In the past I would use storagecraft to image the drives. Not anymore. The current recipe is as follows: 1. I copy of http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx. Download it and make a image vhd copy of the original XP hard drive. 2. I copy of a virtual hard drive resizing tool should the original PC be larger than 127 gigs. http://vmtoolkit.com/files/folders/converters/entry87.aspx Shrink down the vhd. 3. A spare server. Now in the past I would buy a separate harddrive and put it inside the new workstation to be the respository of the virtual old machine, but with the HyperV/Virtual Machine/XP Mode technology I can just plop that vhd drive on a spare file server somewhere. 4. Now you can use Windows Easy Transfer to move stuff, but you can also merely go into the Windows 7 interface and merely attach that built VHDRead more: THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA"