Win7 32bit on HDD from old computer to Win 8 64 bit on new computer with upgrade media

jomcompbio · Jun 17, 2015

Hello all,

So I am doing a new build and I only have my old upgrade media disk from vista 32 bit, Win 7 32 bit, and I got a free copy of the Win8 32/64 upgrade disk. I want to put Win8 64 bit on my SSD on the new build (which will have a different motherboard) from the HDD of my old build which has Win 7 32 bit. I know you can only do a 32 to 64bit upgrade with a clean install with the disk, but I wanted to ask what is the easiest way of doing this transfer/upgrade/bit change?

Thanks

scout_03 · Jun 17, 2015

you could not upgrade directly fro a 32 bits os to a 64 bits os you need to have a 64 bits in to upgrade or a full 64 bits os to do it .

Snipergod87 · Jun 17, 2015

Upgrade disks only work is the previous version of Windows is installed and activated, so in this case to upgrade to Windows 8 you need Windows 7 installed, and if you have an upgrade version of Windows 7 you need to install Vista first. You can then do a clean install of Windows 8 64 bit.

There are some hacks around this but I am not familer with them.

Snipergod87 · Jun 17, 2015

scout_03 :

You can upgrade it but not an in place upgrade everything installed before hand will be lost.

Wolfshadw · Jun 17, 2015

Your Windows 7 upgrade is tied to the original system it was installed on and cannot be moved to a new system. Purchase Windows 8 64-bit, install it and call it a day.

-Wolf sends

jomcompbio · Jun 17, 2015

scout_03 :

Snipergod87 :

You can upgrade to 32bit Win 8 then do a clean install of windows 64bit after that but the transfer of windows to a new machine is what worries me.

jomcompbio · Jun 17, 2015

Snipergod87 :

I have everything backed up so I don't mind wiping the drive. Is there an easy way to transfer the windows license to a new drive (instead of cloning the whole thing just to wipe it in the future)?

jomcompbio · Jun 17, 2015

Wolfshadw :

I normally wouldn't care but since windows 10 comes out in a few months I would rather save my money for a full version of that since I am not sure how clean installs of windows 10 will work down the road with the free upgrade and all.

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