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A word of warning to those upgrading. If you upgrade from a 32-bit version of Windows you are forced to upgrade to 32-bit Windows 8 with no access to the 64-bit
by teamonkey 14y ago
A word of warning to those upgrading. If you upgrade from a 32-bit version of Windows you are forced to upgrade to 32-bit Windows 8 with no access to the 64-bit edition.
Annoyingly, some manufacturers (in my case Dell) shipped 32-bit versions of Vista and Windows 7 on 64-bit processors, presumably to save costs.
- Stratoscope 14y agoYou can't do an in-place upgrade from 32 to 64 bit, but you can do a clean install. The older machines that had 32 bit Windows on 64 bit hardware were usually done that way for software compatibility back when a lot of devices didn't have good 64 bit support. Also out of conservatism in corporate sales.
- teamonkey 14y agoIt was a clean install. If you use the upgrade tool to upgrade a 32-bit version of Vista or Win7, the version of Windows 8 that is downloaded (and which you can burn to DVD) has no 64-bit support.