How Can I Overwrite Drive With Win 7 32 Bit To 64 Bit ?
Aug 4, 2009
I've got a single hard drive with WIN 7 32 bit RC operating OK.
I want to replace it with WIN 7 64 bit RC (not dual boot).
I inserted the 64 bit DVD WIN 7 install ISO disk in my DVD and either it will boot me into by 32 bit system or gives me options to repair it. But, no options to overwrite the current OS.
If I fully boot into the 32 bit edition and try to open setup.exe on the 64 bit DVD it sees a 32 bit system and will not open the 64 bit install program.
How can install the 64 bit OS over the current 64 bit OS?
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