Retail Vista ultimate 64 overwrite viste premium 32

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brokenpaint

My question is if I have retail version of vista ultimate 64 bit and on the
system I have vista home premium 32 bit can I overwrite it with a install
I am trying to utilize the 6 gig of ram installed on the system

Will this allow me to overwrite it and not lose all the programs or data on
the hard disk
 
brokenpaint said:
My question is if I have retail version of vista ultimate 64 bit and on
the
system I have vista home premium 32 bit can I overwrite it with a install
I am trying to utilize the 6 gig of ram installed on the system
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Apparently you have to overwrite. It lokoks like you can't do a direct
upgrade - it looks like basically a clean install.
Will this allow me to overwrite it and not lose all the programs or data
on
the hard disk
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From this page, it looks like the drive is cleared as part of the v64
"custom" install. You must back up your data and reinstall programs.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932795

HTH
-pk
 
You also have to be sure that you have a 64bit processor installed and that
your MOBO does in fact support more then 4GB of memory.
 
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