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I just bought a brand new mobo, EVGA nForce 680i SE Sli and also an Intel Core 2 Duo E 6750 cpu. I am planning on switching out this mobo and cpu out with the new hardware. &nbsp;Currently, I have vista and xp dual booted, and I plan on formatting the drive with vista on it but want to keep the xp partition. &nbsp;If I plan on dual booting after putting the new mobo and cpu in, is it possible to just install xp and still have all my settings, registry info, etc and anything needed to do so or would it be necessary to format and install xp clean? I've already decided i wanted to dual boot again, although I realize the lack of needing xp and just stick to vista. <br />
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I just bought a brand new mobo, EVGA nForce 680i SE Sli and also an Intel Core 2 Duo E 6750 cpu. I am planning on switching out this mobo and cpu out with the new hardware.  Currently, I have vista and xp dual booted, and I plan on formatting the drive with vista on it but want to keep the xp partition.  If I plan on dual booting after putting the new mobo and cpu in, is it possible to just install xp and still have all my settings, registry info, etc and anything needed to do so or would it be necessary to format and install xp clean? I've already decided i wanted to dual boot again, although I realize the lack of needing xp and just stick to vista. 
Thanks.

New Mobo and CPU, keep old xp install information.

Microsoft Windows XP is the sixth release of the NT series of operating systems, and was the first to be marketed in a variety of editions: XP Home and XP Professional, designed for business and power users. The advanced features in XP Professional are generally disabled in Home Edition, but are there and can be activated. There were two 64-bit editions, an embedded edition and a tablet edition.