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switch from vista 32 to vista 64

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jimmyj68

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One of the reasons I bought Vista Ultimate is the having two versions of Vista, the 32 on one disc and 64 on another. In the back of my mind I was thinking that in six months or so I'll switch to 64 as the world grows more 64 bit.

But now that I have a plethora of stuff on my Vista 32 system it occurred to me that I may have to "clean" install Vista 64????? Is that the case? Can't I do a repair with the 64 DVD and convert my machine in place? All I'm doing is shifting bit and byte sizes and changing nothing else.

I'm leaving town in the morning so I won't see responses until 5-6 days from now - but I will be looking anxiously for what you guys tell me.😕
 
Even if Vista installer is somehow able to upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit, a clean install would be better. The chances are if when upgraded, you would be greeted with numerous BSODs and other errors because 32-bit drivers won't work in 64-bit OS. In addition you have Program Files (x86) folder for 32-bit applications while 64-bit applications go to Program Files as well as many registry entries are differently placed in x64 version.

For those reasons I doubt upgrade is possible, though I haven't researched into it.
 
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