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Geek Culture / upgrading windows 7 32 bit to 64 bit

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Lover of games
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I want to upgrade from 32 bit to 64 bit for windows 7 but i don't ant to format my PC and loose my data. can you upgrade to 64 with out worring about your data getting deleted? i look forward to your answers.

"Originally I was going to have a BS on it but you know how that would be. I can't walk around with the letters BS on me." More or less a qoute by Syndrome from Jack, Jack, attack
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Neuro Fuzzy
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Errm, you need a 64 bit processor...


check this link out.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/32-bit-and-64-bit-Windows-frequently-asked-questions
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Chenak
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you can't unfortunately, you will need to reformat and reinstall windows to change from 32 bit to 64 bit
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Venge
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Make a backup on a secondary hard drive first. After installing Windows 7 on three systems, it has always kept all the data from the old installation in a folder, but you should make a backup just in case.

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Quote: "Errm, you need a 64 bit processor...


check this link out.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/32-bit-and-64-bit-Windows-frequently-asked-questions "


have one thanks.

and yeah i'll back up everything though i'm going to wait til i buy more ramn want an 8 gig system so i need to upgrade to 64.

"Originally I was going to have a BS on it but you know how that would be. I can't walk around with the letters BS on me." More or less a qoute by Syndrome from Jack, Jack, attack
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I made a school boy error yesterday. I ordered 32bit Win7Pro for my 8gig system I'm building. Luckily I realised just in time and changed to 64bit (I am buying OEM, so I only get 1 version in the box). That would've been a proper headache.

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