Can I restore the backup Windows XP on a new computer with Windows 7 COA and upgrade to Windows 7?

Original title: upgrade question.

I currently have a PC running XP in a system with an IDE drive. The system has many applications that the company has moved the installation discs, so I need to move the contents of the entire disk to a new system. I was about to do the following:
 
System backup with a recovery boot disk, in this case a USB.
 
Restore the entire operating system to a new system that will have a SATA drive in it. The new system will have a COST for Windows 7.
 
Start the XP and upgrade to Windows 7.
 
My question is, will it work or the absence of the COA of XP on the new system will prevent me to install?
 
Any help would be appreciated.
 
Thank you
 
The f

Short answer, "no, this will not work."

It is unclear what you mean by 'backup' and 'restore', but it seems that if you are referring to the creation of a disk image or a clone of disk on an external drive and then either restore the image or cloning to the new computer.  Assuming that both of these computers was provided with Windows pre-installed, this process will almost certainly result in a facility that cannot be 'activated '.  In addition, unless the software you use has something like Acronis Universal Restore, restore the image from your old computer to a player in a new computer with a different hardware simply will not work.

In addition, the lack of an XP license is not the issue.  There are several problems with the process you describe, but basically, an "upgrade" from XP to Win 7 requires a "custom installation" which means that applications should be re-installed.

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