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ultimabond   08-09-2009 at 01:17:31 PM

Hi all,
I currently have OEM vista 32-bit installed on a 250G hard drive but having 8 gigs of ram i thought it might be worth my while to upgrade to 64-bit as i have the cd for it. the problem is i was wanting to replace my 250G hard drive with a 1TB hard drive i have so install the 64-bit version on the 1TB drive rather than the current one i have. Will this be a problem? or will vista only allow me to install the 64-bit version on the current hard drive im using the 32-bit version on.
thx in advance!

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badge   08-10-2009 at 02:55:47 AM

ultimabond wrote :

Hi all,
I currently have OEM vista 32-bit installed on a 250G hard drive but having 8 gigs of ram i thought it might be worth my while to upgrade to 64-bit as i have the cd for it. the problem is i was wanting to replace my 250G hard drive with a 1TB hard drive i have so install the 64-bit version on the 1TB drive rather than the current one i have. Will this be a problem? or will vista only allow me to install the 64-bit version on the current hard drive im using the 32-bit version on.
thx in advance!



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i was wanting to replace my 250G hard drive with a 1TB hard drive i have so install the 64-bit version on the 1TB drive rather than the current one i have. Will this be a problem?



Just install Vista 64 on the new 1TB hard drive. You system will have a dual boot Vista32/64 with each OS installed on seperate HD's. A boot menu should appear on startup asking which HD/OS you want to boot to.

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Jonmor68   08-10-2009 at 11:18:56 PM

That's actually a good idea from badge.
If you have any programs that you need, that are not compatible with 64 bit, you can boot to the 32 bit version.

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ultimabond   08-17-2009 at 06:41:26 AM

ya thats wat iv done now just was not sure if it would work as the software is OEM and thought the software might think new hard drive=new computer and not install but it turned out to be ok. thx for ur answer

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