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win7 32bit to win7 64bit: installed programs

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Adrian_K

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hi all,
I'm going to u/g from 32 to 64 bit, apparently this is painless...but I have a few q's.

Do I need to or should I uninstall all programs and drivers first?
Reading the blurb I do a custom install and windows.old is created for achiving, what is in this?

My mobo is ASUSTeK P7P55D & Asus have both 32 & 64 bit BIOSs and they're the same version numbers..., the processor is an i5 but I can't tell whether it's a 32 or 64 bit bios, does it matter?

I've backed up my data and most of it is on separate partitions from the OS, will this still be readable on 64bit?

and finally, I've only got 80gig free on the OS partition, is this sufficient?

many thanks
Adrian
 
If you want my advise.you should do a fresh install.and how many ram do you have.also the hdd what size is it.
 
Yes, I could flatten it but had hoped to avoid that.
750 GB disk of which 250 partition is for windows and I've bought and extra 8GB ram.

cheers
Adrian
 
thanks for the link Corky, can you tell me whe the partitions from 32bit win7 are readable from 64bit win7?
cheers
 
hi,
Just thought I add to this thread to close it.
I ran the update and after while <yawn> windows created me a windows.old file and a clean windows installation and still all files were there, so therefore I had very little spare disk space.
I copied off the windows.old to another drive.
Installed windows, formatting the disk this time. Then install everything from scratch.

I found a couple of tricks in my research ***before installation*** ()🙂:

run belarc, it's a great tool. http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
it just creates an inventory of your machine. Hardware, software, bios, drivers and even license keys.

back up firefox profile

  1. Go to one level above your profile's folder, i.e. to %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\
  2. Right-click on your profile folder (e.g. xxxxxxxx.default), and select Copy.
  3. paste to another disk/partition
to restore: install firefox, then open and close so a default profile is created. Then copy your old profile contents to the new xxx.default directory.


This saves bookmark, passwords & even history...
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles


also **before** installation, move itunes library
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1364


Issue:
I had problems with permissions of other disks and partitions because I wasn't the owner. I could read but not write.
log in as administrator - this account may need activating.
run cmd as admin
net user administrator /active:yes


right click on a drive: properties, security, advanced, owner, edit, other.
I still had problems with messages saying 'recycled bin is corrupt. delete y/n?'. So I deleted them...what's to lose? 😀


Even my virtual machines started w/o issue 😎.

hth,
Adrian
 
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