32 bit not allowing me to install 64 bit and not regognizing it!! Please help!

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bastapia

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Hi everyone,
I have in fronted a problem which is driving me nuts.. I built a PC four years ago, it consist of 4gb of ram, an intel core i 7 3.1ghz, asus motherboard etc. I have recently tried to upgrade to 64 bit as i wanted to edit videos, as quite frankly im only using 3 gbs of the 4 at the moment. Every time I press on the setup.exe it says i have to do a custom installation.. though when I reboot it, it doesn't even recognize the windows 64bit disk...it just does the usual. It tried using the bios by putting it on highest priority, that still didn't work. My pc is for sure capable of 64bit. At the moment though i don't know what to do.
 
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bastapia

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Well i cant do a full install as when I boot my pc up with the 64 bit disk, my 32bit system doesn't recognize its there, I tried an external optical drive though the outcome was the same, it just boot up password entry.
On the other hand, how is a USB boot done?
 
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Check it out, there are 2 things you must do in the BIOS, put the DVD drive into the boot list of bootable devices, and then you must set the order of the boot devices, set the DVD as the first boot option, your hard drive as second.
And, as mentioned, you cannot "upgrade" a 32 bit installation to 64 bit. You must do complete fresh installation.
 
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bastapia

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The boot options that I have at the moment, after configuring them by priority are
1. IDE: HL-DT-STDVD-RA
2.ATAPI CD-ROM
3. Removable dev.
4. SATA: PS- WDC D10EA

I have also tried with the CD-ROM at the top, still didn't work. Although maybe after reading some other threads, maybe removing the hard dive and then booting up the system is an option to see if it is a boot order or a bio setting problem? What do you think?
 
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is the windows 7 disc a dvd or cd? it does not look like you have a dvd player.

i wonder if your pc is not 64 bit ready...


1.Open Performance Information and Tools by clicking the Start button , and then clicking Control Panel. In the search box, type Performance Information and Tools, and then, in the list of results, click Performance Information and Tools.

2.In Windows 7, click View and print detailed performance and system information.


3.In the System section, you can see what type of operating system you're currently running under System type, and whether or not you can run a 64-bit version of Windows under 64-bit capable. (If your computer is already running a 64-bit version of Windows, you won't see the 64-bit capable listing.)

 
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bastapia

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My only objective is to have 64 bit to use the rest of my 4 gb of ram. I have followed your advice and still it boots up to the default log in screen. I have noticed something odd though, when I entered in the bios the only Auto detected IDE by the SATAs was the hard drive... The rest of the 6 SATA were not detected.....
 
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Sorry, but you need to format the HDD. Go in start menu, search for cmd, open it, then type "format C:" (without quotes) and press enter, there press the Y letter and let it go. Think of it twice, as your disk may still not be working and you will only lose data. I'm not holding ANY responsibilities of what happens with your data, I'm not obligating you to do it.
Now do a full install.

Good luck!
 
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You do have a DVD drive, right? The Windows disk is a DVD.
Unless you have something plugged into them (your SATA ports) they won't be "detected".
 
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Don't do this, good grief.
 
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System type 32-bit operating system
Number of processor cores 4
64-bit capable Yes

Thats what it says.

 
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That is very probable as my optical drive doesn't state anything about DVDS on its front cover...I have got a external optical drive though, which has DVD multi recorder on it and RW DVD+RDL and that still didn't work.. Might it be anything with my motherboard, I have and an asus P6t Se.
 
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Windows 7 comes in DVD format, not CD. For sure that's why is not booting. I think you don't have a DVD-ROM drive, even if the IDE one looks like, maybe it's not a DVD-ROM drive. Try to install one and see if it works.

EDIT: You put the comment right before me about the drive.
 
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