Can I install Windows 7 on a machine with Windows XP using a Windows 7 upgrade CD?

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I have a machine running Windows XP. I want to install Windos 7 on it, but I don't need to upgrade the existing installation. The instructions on the back of a Windows 7 upgrade disk say that it is meant to upgrade Windows Vista. It then adds that if the mcahine has Windows XP on it, I must instead save all user files. programs, etc., and then do a clean installation of Windows 7. After that I can restore the files I saved. (I don't happen to want to do that.) I interpret this to mean that I can use the upgrade disk to do a fresh installation of Windows 7 on the machine given that there is a preexisting version of Windows, namely Windows XP. So I don't need a more expensive disk which can do a full installation of Windows 7 on a mcahine which doesn't have any previous version of Windows on it.
Am I right?

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