Converting 32bit vista to 64 bit suggestions?

[WildEagle]

I had to go back and read the title of this thread about six times and I still don't understand the responses!
Most don't address the theme of this thread at all.

Vista 32 bit and Vista 64 bit are TWO totally different Operating Systems (OS's).
You can't just convert one to the other.

Sounds like you'd have to BUY Vista 64 and install it over Vista 32, obliterating it.

That's just my take on it.
Maybe someone else has a different take.......

Shadow

Wrong, you can't install Vista 64 over the top of a 32bit OS. You have to wipe the boot drive clean using the Vista 64 install disc and then install Vista 64. This is how Microsoft set it up, when going to Vista 64, because in some ways the code base is the same, but for the most part the code base between the two are different.

When buying OEM Vista, you must specify 32bit or 64 bit, there is no 64bit disc you can order if you purchased a 32bit OEM Vista. The retail version of 32bit Vista Ultimate does come with a 64bit install disc, with any other 32bit retail version of Vista, you can either go to the Microsoft website and order the 64bit disc online or call Microsoft to order the 64bit disc if you bought a retail edition of Vista, other than a retail Ultimate Edition. When you order the 64bit install disc if your retail edition did not come with it, Microsoft will want to know what your product key is, and in effect, your retail product is now the 64bit product key. If you still want to use the 32bit install disc on a machine, you must call Microsoft or go to the Microsoft website, and purchase a new product key for the 32bit retail disc.

 

[Brink]

When I put my 1 gigs back in the slots only one was recognize so I swaped their position and still only one was recognize. Therefore I concluded that one of the slots was toast. I am sending the 2 gigs back.

Better rma that motherboard, or flat out buy a new one.

USMA_Nam_Vet,

I would agree with WildEagle. It sounds like you may have also fried the dimm slots on the mother board to. If you use the one RAM stick that you know is good and try in each slot on the motherboard, does it work in each of them? If it does, then your motherboard is ok. If not, then try the other RAM stick by itself in eash slot to see if it works. If it works, then the RAM is ok and the motherboard slot is fried.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[usmc_nam_vet]

I did a military wipe of the hard drive before installing 64 bit. Before I have always bought retail software and about once a year I would wipe the hard drive. I think I am a glutton for punishment.

 

[Everlong]

I had to go back and read the title of this thread about six times and I still don't understand the responses!
Most don't address the theme of this thread at all.

Vista 32 bit and Vista 64 bit are TWO totally different Operating Systems (OS's).
You can't just convert one to the other.

Sounds like you'd have to BUY Vista 64 and install it over Vista 32, obliterating it.

That's just my take on it.
Maybe someone else has a different take.......

Shadow

Wrong, you can't install Vista 64 over the top of a 32bit OS. You have to wipe the boot drive clean using the Vista 64 install disc and then install Vista 64. This is how Microsoft set it up, when going to Vista 64, because in some ways the code base is the same, but for the most part the code base between the two are different.

You can, if you have a 32 bit OS installed, and you put the Vista and choose 64 bit, it will just warn you that there is a previous OS installed, and it will be put in a folder called Windows.old that you can access, once the OS has installed, to retreive all your old files.

 

[WildEagle]

I had to go back and read the title of this thread about six times and I still don't understand the responses!
Most don't address the theme of this thread at all.

Vista 32 bit and Vista 64 bit are TWO totally different Operating Systems (OS's).
You can't just convert one to the other.

Sounds like you'd have to BUY Vista 64 and install it over Vista 32, obliterating it.

That's just my take on it.
Maybe someone else has a different take.......

Shadow

Wrong, you can't install Vista 64 over the top of a 32bit OS. You have to wipe the boot drive clean using the Vista 64 install disc and then install Vista 64. This is how Microsoft set it up, when going to Vista 64, because in some ways the code base is the same, but for the most part the code base between the two are different.

You can, if you have a 32 bit OS installed, and you put the Vista and choose 64 bit, it will just warn you that there is a previous OS installed, and it will be put in a folder called Windows.old that you can access, once the OS has installed, to retreive all your old files.

That's pure bulloney. I found out that you can't install a 64bit OS over the top of a 32bit OS. I know, I've installed 64bit Vista a few times, due to my own stupidity, and it said right away that upgrading was disabled. Microsoft designed Vista 64 this way, so why don't you go feed your bulloney to Microsoft.

 

[Everlong]

Wrong, you can't install Vista 64 over the top of a 32bit OS. You have to wipe the boot drive clean using the Vista 64 install disc and then install Vista 64. This is how Microsoft set it up, when going to Vista 64, because in some ways the code base is the same, but for the most part the code base between the two are different.

You can, if you have a 32 bit OS installed, and you put the Vista and choose 64 bit, it will just warn you that there is a previous OS installed, and it will be put in a folder called Windows.old that you can access, once the OS has installed, to retreive all your old files.

That's pure bulloney. I found out that you can't install a 64bit OS over the top of a 32bit OS. I know, I've installed 64bit Vista a few times, due to my own stupidity, and it said right away that upgrading was disabled. Microsoft designed Vista 64 this way, so why don't you go feed your bulloney to Microsoft.

TheShadow wasn't talking about upgrading. He said install Vista 64 over 32, not upgrading. I know you can't upgrade from 32 to 64, because I've also tried, but you can do a clean install over 32 bit and Windows will keep your files for you to access.

It's also spelt "baloney", not "bulloney".

 

[usmc_nam_vet]

Now now gentlemen let's not get to hung up on terminalogy or spelling. I am just a dumb old country boy who dropped out of highschool to join the Marine Corp and fight in Nam. What I ment when I said converting was keeping the hardware, wipeing the hard drive, installing more ram and the 64 vista in a machine that had previously ran 32 vista. Would Upgradeing been a better word to have used?

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello Vet, how you doing?

Semantics ... hehehe; they would probably prefer to use the term "Clean Install".
You know how some of these 'techie' types can be ...








Later Ted

 

[SIW2]

Hi,

Instead of booting from your Vista installation you can open the disc to view files then run the setup files from there and instead of getting the "upgrade disabled" screen you get the "upgrade" screen with no option to do a clean install i.e. the opposite way round from when you boot from it.


SIW2

 

[Adrian Wainer]

Just an Issue Nam Vet about the RAM slot you believe not to be working is it possible that you now only have one stick of RAM and that the slot that you have found not be working is the second slot one fills after one has filled the first slot with RAM, well if by any chance that is the case, could it be that the slot might be okay but can not work because there is no RAM in the first slot?

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[usmc_nam_vet]

No one slot is toast. I have 2 good sticks. Installed in both slots. MB has only 2 slots. One was recognized. Swapped ram in slots, still only recognized one. When I get a chance I will find out which slot is bad and remove that stick for something else. I have gotten lazy since retiring. Will probably do it the next time I clean it.

 

[Adrian Wainer]

My guess is that it is the slot you fill if you would have one stick that is good in that it might be if that slot was broken the second slot would not work anyway even if it was okay.

Best and Warm Regards
Adrian Wainer