Vista Home premieum 32 bit to Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit?

dheremans

February 1, 2012 11:44:25 AM

Im running Windows Vista Home Premium on my Dell Inspiron 1721. Can i upgrade to windows 7Ultimate 64 bit software.
I have purchased Windows 7 Ultimate and received both 32 and 64 bit software discs.
Thank you for your help
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signor

February 1, 2012 11:54:27 AM

No, you cannot upgrade from 32 to 64 bit via any upgrade pathway.
It is reccomended that you do a clean fresh install onto a formatted HDD, when you do this you can install 64 bit or 32 bit but you cannot upgrade from 32 to 64.

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13thmonkey

February 1, 2012 12:12:27 PM

and please do not put your email address or your phonenumber in a forum. Do you seriously expect one of us to phone you, would you even want one of us to phone you?

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jsc

February 1, 2012 12:20:57 PM

signor said:

No, you cannot upgrade from 32 to 64 bit via any upgrade pathway.
It is reccomended that you do a clean fresh install onto a formatted HDD, when you do this you can install 64 bit or 32 bit but you cannot upgrade from 32 to 64.

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Well, you are mostly right. You can upgrade from Vista-32 straight to Win7-32, no reformatting necessary. But upgradiny any Win-32 OS to any Win-64 OS requires a reformat.

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Hawkeye22

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February 1, 2012 1:44:10 PM

Going from 64 bit to 32 bit also requires a clean install.

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