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    Windows 7 Upgrade

    An acquaintance has asked me about upgrades. He's bought a W7 family upgrade pack, but is having problems.
    Can you upgrade from 32 bit XP to to 64 bit ? If not, why not ?
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    Re: Windows 7 Upgrade

    Hold on, do you mean upgrade as in 'an upgrade license', or upgrade as in 'in place upgrade' to avoid a clean install.

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    Re: Windows 7 Upgrade

    Hmmm. From what he said it sounds like upgrade license. He's done two so far 'in place' upgrades but the last won't work. He's savvy enough to do a clean install if required.

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    I cunningly bought a Family pack of Windows 7 which lets you upgrade 3 older Windows versions to Windows 7 Home Premium. This appeared to be quite a good deal as it gets you both the 32bit and 64 bit DVDs and a 3 pc license for just over £100, whereas the OEM version of windows is about £75 for a single license.

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    The only problem with this is that it appears you can only upgrade a 32 bit version of XP to the 32 bit version of Windows 7 instead of the 64 bit version.
    In fact, you can't even upgrade to the 64 bit version even if you are willing to do a clean install of the operating system onto a drive, because then the OS does not accept the damn license key which came with your Upgrade version of Windows 7.

    So if anyone knows a cunning way of getting to 64 bit Windows 7 from Windows XP 32 bit with a Upgrade key I would be most interested. I have a 64 bit OEM key, but I bet that installing that and then changing to the Upgrade key before activation would not work... or does it?
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    Re: Windows 7 Upgrade

    If it's anything like the Student ones, you should be able to clean install the upgrade (skip the CD key prompt) when it asks for one so you end up installing an unregistered version of Windows 7.

    Then do the same thing again, effectively upgrading your unregistered version with your Upgrade CD-Key.

    Am surprised it's not letting you upgrade to 64-bit Windows 7 from 32-bit XP... as in it should let you upgrade (with your CD-key), but it'd be a fresh install of it.

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    Re: Windows 7 Upgrade

    Anyone else ?
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    Re: Windows 7 Upgrade

    Yeah, he's right. Paul Thurrott explained it on his site, MS apparently don't mind upgrade licenses being used in the same way as retail ones.

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    Re: Windows 7 Upgrade

    Update: rec'd an email today and it worked. Posted here for others in the same boat.

    Right, despite saying you can't do it, you can use the upgrade key and change from 32 bit to 64 bit Windows. You will have to reinstall your apps though.

    a) Backup your old 32 bit Windows partition. Hope there is enough space on it for a new installation. This step is not entirely necessary.
    b) Boot with the 64 bit DVD (you can't run setup.exe on the 64 bit disk from your 32 bit windows), select Custom installation and install to the partition containing the old windows section. It will create a Windows.old partition containing your old documents and settings. It won't prompt you for a Key until you manually install one.
    c) With luck your old documents are in the windows.old directory. If not, you did follow step a), didn't you?
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