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Windows 7 64 Bit and XP 32 bit.

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flyer01

Charter Member 2012
I have found that you can not install Windows 7 64 bit on a PC with a OS of 32 bit. Only Windows 7 32 Bit. With out doing a clean boot of your HD.
There is a windows program that you can use to save your setting from XP on an different HD then reinstall them. But not the programs like CFS3.


I put Windows 7 32 bit on a duel boot partition thinking I could up grade to 64 bit. No Joy, its still a 32 bit OS. So it can not open the 64 bit installer.

To make it short. You have to have a 64 bit OS to in stall a 64 bit OS on you HD.

Then I don't think I could reinstall XP 32 Bit. With the 64 bit OS.


I'M going to try and install Windows 7 64 bit on a external HD using a 64 bit OS.

flyer01:salute:
 
flyer01 said:
I have found that you can not install Windows 7 64 bit on a PC with a OS of 32 bit. Only Windows 7 32 Bit. With out doing a clean boot of your HD.
There is a windows program that you can use to save your setting from XP on an different HD then reinstall them. But not the programs like CFS3.


I put Windows 7 32 bit on a duel boot partition thinking I could up grade to 64 bit. No Joy, its still a 32 bit OS. So it can not open the 64 bit installer.

To make it short. You have to have a 64 bit OS to in stall a 64 bit OS on you HD.

Then I don't think I could reinstall XP 32 Bit. With the 64 bit OS.


I'M going to try and install Windows 7 64 bit on a external HD using a 64 bit OS.

flyer01:salute:
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Some thing good out of this.
If you use EASEUS to make a partition on your start up HD it will work faster. I have a 1000gb on my HD. I made a partition using around 500 gb.
Now my C drive is faster.:applause:

flyer01
 
Not completely sure of your point, but your problem seems to be upgrading 32-bit Win7 to 64-bit. That would seem to me to need a complete reinstall.

However, I have both Win7 64-bit and XP 32-bit on this rig with two HDs. XP was installed first, Win7 later and there was no problem. There should likewise be no problem on one HD once a second partition is set up.

If you want Win7 to exist on a dual-boot with XP or anything else, install the anything else first, making sure a second HD or partition is recognised by the anything else. That way Win7 will recognise and automatically configure a dual-boot system. Otherwise use EasyBCD (free) to set it up yourself.

HTH
 
hairyspin said:
If you want Win7 to exist on a dual-boot with XP or anything else, install the anything else first, making sure a second HD or partition is recognised by the anything else. That way Win7 will recognise and automatically configure a dual-boot system.
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The downside of doing that is that once one Windows (can't figure out which one at this time of the night) fails for some unknown reason the other one can't start either because the dual boot configuration goes belly up with the failed one.

Not in my case. I had a partitioned XP Home 32 installation running fine and wanted Win7 Pro 64 to go with it. I unplugged the XP drive altogether, plugged in the to-be Win7 drive in the next hard drive socket and installed it. After that I turned off the rig, plugged the XP drive back in and now I have two completely independent installations that can be decided between in the boot menu when the computer starts. By default I still have it booting to XP but pressing F11 (very probably differs across motherboards) brings up the menu to choose the boot drive from. I even managed to make it so that no matter which Windows I'm using it is C:, the program partition is E:, the media partition is F:, the "stuff dump" partition is G: and the Windows not in use is H:. All the mentioned partitions physically reside on the XP drive.

If XP fails I can still boot to Win7 and vice versa. I seriously recommend this way if the motherboard has a boot menu functionality and two physical drives can be used.
 
greycap.raf said:
...If XP fails I can still boot to Win7 and vice versa. I seriously recommend this way if the motherboard has a boot menu functionality and two physical drives can be used.
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Two HDs is, I agree, the way to go, but I have a yet further development. My rig can boot to either drive (which drive is set in the bios or can be chosen at startup) and remains dual-boot - there is a dual-boot arrangement on both drives. This was simple to set up with EasyBCD.

I can tell you from experience that if the Win7 drive fails XP will still boot, but I now have a Western Digital drive to replace the original...
 
hairyspin said:
Not completely sure of your point, but your problem seems to be upgrading 32-bit Win7 to 64-bit. That would seem to me to need a complete reinstall.

However, I have both Win7 64-bit and XP 32-bit on this rig with two HDs. XP was installed first, Win7 later and there was no problem. There should likewise be no problem on one HD once a second partition is set up.

If you want Win7 to exist on a dual-boot with XP or anything else, install the anything else first, making sure a second HD or partition is recognised by the anything else. That way Win7 will recognise and automatically configure a dual-boot system. Otherwise use EasyBCD (free) to set it up yourself.

HTH
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You can install 64 bit if your PC has that capability. My PC did not. You can see if it will load 64 bit if you look at your systems from the start menu and you see a 64+.
I'm not up on this stuff. That is just what I have read about.
I have another HD I can use but the PC is not seeing it.

flyer01
 
If it's a USB drive, XP should recognise it straight away.

If it's a SATA drive, your PC can't see the extra drive and it's connected then check in the BIOS at startup to see if the m/b sees it. Setting up an extra drive in the BIOS is usually just enabling auto-detect and the m/b does the rest.

Once the m/b detects the drive, in XP go to the Start menu, right-click on My Computer and select Manage. This brings up Computer Management and selecting Disk Management from the Storage list will show all HDs. Right-click on the inactive drive and set up from there.

If it's an IDE drive (broad ribbon cable) then you might not be able to run a 64-bit OS, but your rig would need to be pretty old not to. Whether it's worth loading Win7 on such an old rig would be open to question.

HTH
 
I now have Windows 7 64 bit and XP 32 bit on the same PC.

I took out my HD and put it in a PC that is 64 bit and loaded Windows 7 32 bit on a partition then ran Windows 7 64 bit over the 32 bit.

Put the HD back in my PC and Windows 7 is 64 bit.:wiggle:

When I start my PC it ask if I want to start the older Windows (being XP) or Windows 7.

For now I'm keeping all the things on XP and will only use the 64 bit for the newer games like CoD.

I have used Vista and did not like that. Windows 7 is pretty cool. Ez to get around. So far. LOL

flyer01:salute:
 
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