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E6500:from vista 32 to windows 7 X64

Discussion in 'Dell Latitude, Vostro, and Precision' started by archimolar, Apr 20, 2010.

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    archimolar Newbie

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    hi everyone
    I want to install windows7 64 too but my question is should I full format my H.D.D to successfully instalation or it's not depend on it
    thank for any help beforehand
     
    archimolar, Apr 20, 2010
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    AFAIK you cannot upgrade from 32bit to 64bit. So you will have to format your drive before hand.
     
    Joel, Apr 20, 2010
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    They both use different bases so you can't upgrade would have to format so backup all your data and just delete the drive and recreate when on the hard drive selection screen.
     
    031247, Apr 21, 2010
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    So should I format C: (system) drive or full drives? (I hear it from somewhere "it's better to full format for no problems" but it's not make any sense to me)
     
    archimolar, Apr 21, 2010
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    You must format C:\, but if you have partitions, it's not necessary to format other partitions.
     
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