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    Reformatting asus laptop need advice vista 32/64

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by dohi312, Jun 29, 2010.

  1. dohi312

    dohi312 Newbie

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    So when I bought my Asus laptop it came originally with vista 32 on it but I had the company i bought it from upgrade it to 64. If i wanted to reformat, would it be easiest to use the recovery disk thats 32bit or the vista disk that is 64 bit??
     
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  2. Nekki

    Nekki Notebook Evangelist

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    x64 better choice if you want any RAM upgrade...

    ...but...

    Win7 x64 FTW!!!
     
    Nekki, Jun 29, 2010
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    I forgot to opt in for the free upgrade to 7 :( but i would have to boot from vista 64 disk to reformat right?
     
    dohi312, Jun 29, 2010
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    Reformat is your only choice since you cannot upgrade a Vista 32 bit to a Vista/7 64 bit system. Worst thing that can happen is you might have to do a double install (clean install 7 64 bit and upgrade) if you only have a upgrade disc. Make sure not to put any keys the first time it ask you. BTW, depend on you, its legal in a sense according the MS's EULA.
     
    FFZERO, Jun 30, 2010
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