The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Z17GN wont load 64bit windows 7

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by ollo, Jul 30, 2009.

  1. ollo

    ollo Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    3
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    I have tried unsuccessfully to load windows 7 64bit onto my z17 and every time it loads the 32 bit version.

    I have tried changing the bios to later version that are shipped with 64bit operating systems without any luck.

    Does anyone have any ideas how to get this working ??
    Thanks
     
    ollo, Jul 30, 2009
    #1
  2. Mujja

    Mujja Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    89
    Messages:
    414
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    31
    How did you install the 64 bit version? Did you upgrade a 32 bit version?
     
    Mujja, Jul 30, 2009
    #2
  3. ollo

    ollo Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    3
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Fresh install on newly installed hard drive, tried both with and without partition. Also then tried upgrading from the original hard drives 32bit vista and got the same results
     
    ollo, Jul 30, 2009
    #3
  4. NHT

    NHT Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    18
    Messages:
    525
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    31
    It means you have a Windows 7 32bit DVD.
     
    NHT, Jul 31, 2009
    #4