I think if u clean the drive and start fresh with fresh drivers and (iportantly) a genuine version's of windows on a system wich meets the windows requirments,it does not matter wich windows you install.But keep in mind that windows Xp is no loger suported so next up may be windows 7 but by that time most of us(or all of us)will be runnig a windows newer than 10 or 10 but at the moment it more a personal thing.