Can I go from win 7 32 bit to win 10 64 bit?

[Maxime Trepanier]

Hi there, I hope i'm in the good place to ask this but I am wondering if I can upgrade my win 7 32 bit system to 64 bit now that I have changed my mobo/ GPU etc.

Thank you

 

[elneelo]

You need a minimum of 2GB RAM to upgrade to a 64 bit operating system across Windows platforms.

 

[Slashgeek]

You cannot upgrade to 64-bit from a 32-bit installation; you need to perform a clean installation.

 

[Maxime Trepanier]

You need a minimum of 4GB RAM to upgrade to a 64 bit operating system across Windows platforms.

Thank you! I wasn't sure what was required

 

[Maxime Trepanier]

And by clean installation u mean the creational tool of win 10 that you can get on their website?

 

[elneelo]

You need a minimum of 4GB RAM to upgrade to a 64 bit operating system across Windows platforms.

Thank you! I wasn't sure what was required

No problem 😉 I'm assuming you have a shiny new 64 bit OS ready ?

 

[dudeman509]

You need a minimum of 4GB RAM to upgrade to a 64 bit operating system across Windows platforms.

2 gigs. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-specifications

The only option to go from 32 to 64 bit is to do a clean install of 10 x64.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki/windows_10-win_upgrade/how-to-switch-from-32-bit-versions-of-windows-to/40d90c4e-8845-4bcb-bb2f-aeab312caf74

 

[elneelo]

You need a minimum of 4GB RAM to upgrade to a 64 bit operating system across Windows platforms.

2 gigs. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-specifications

The only option to go from 32 to 64 bit is to do a clean install of 10 x64.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki/windows_10-win_upgrade/how-to-switch-from-32-bit-versions-of-windows-to/40d90c4e-8845-4bcb-bb2f-aeab312caf74

Well spotted. I have fixed that error now. I was thinking 2GB, but my fingers typed 4GB for some reason.

 

[Maxime Trepanier]

I am on win 7 32 bit at the moment can I just get the creational tool to install win 10 64 bit or is there something specific I have to do? I'm trying to figure out what are the warnings on the link u gave me but I'm not sure if i'm about to do something wrong or not ^^

 

[elneelo]

I am on win 7 32 bit at the moment can I just get the creational tool to install win 10 64 bit or is there something specific I have to do? I'm trying to figure out what are the warnings on the link u gave me but I'm not sure if i'm about to do something wrong or not ^^

Rip windows 10 to your USB using Power Iso.

 

[Maxime Trepanier]

Can I just install the creational tool of win 10 64 bit on a usb and then open it and double click on setup.exe for a clean install of win 10 from 32 bit to 64bit? Thanks

 

[dudeman509]

Can I just install the creational tool of win 10 64 bit on a usb and then open it and double click on setup.exe for a clean install of win 10 from 32 bit to 64bit? Thanks

No. The creation tool will download an image file from Microsoft.

You then need to use something (like PowerISO) to extract that image file and burn it to a DVD or create a bootable USB drive. At that point, you'd reboot the computer and tell it to boot from the DVD/USB drive (usually a BIOS flag), upon which it will format the hard disk and install Windows 10.

Back up your stuff - you will lose everything on the C drive in this process.

 

[elneelo]

Can I just install the creational tool of win 10 64 bit on a usb and then open it and double click on setup.exe for a clean install of win 10 from 32 bit to 64bit? Thanks

No. The creation tool will download an image file from Microsoft.

You then need to use something (like PowerISO) to extract that image file and burn it to a DVD or create a bootable USB drive. At that point, you'd reboot the computer and tell it to boot from the DVD/USB drive (usually a BIOS flag), upon which it will format the hard disk and install Windows 10.

Back up your stuff - you will lose everything on the C drive in this process.

Exactly this.