If I upgraded to windows 7, the ability to go back to XP is good or not?

I upgraded from XP to win 7. is it possible to restore or use recovery and to go back to win XP?

I upgraded from XP to win 7. is it possible to restore or use recovery and to go back to win XP?

If you did a backup image of your computer before you upgraded (really a clean install when moving from Windows XP to Windows 7) - then you are fine - you can restore that.  Backups are King.

If you do not have an image: you can still perform the clean installation of Windows XP - but all * not * maybe lost again...  You are likely to discover (or discovered) when you upgraded to Windows 7 from Windows XP - you had to reinstall all of your software - same thing on the other side, if you do it this way...

If you have a Windows.old folder in the root of the C drive...
How to restore a Windows 7 computer to a previous Windows installation by using the Windows.old folder

I think it's pretty much your choice.  You may be lucky lucky, can make the third.  Probably will take the second for various reasons.  Can learn from the experience and start to make backups regularly and periodically (and), contained in the first.  ;-)

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