Windows 7 Upgrade Error

dannaswolcott

dannaswolcott

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I got my copy of Windows 7 Home Pre 64bit. I reinstalled my current OS witch is Vista Home Pre 64bit and when I try to upgrade from vista to windows 7 home pre 64 bit, I get this error saying that I am trying to upgrade from a 32bit OS to a 64bit os when yet I have a 64bit OS installed. I can NOT do a clean install of 7 beacuse my key is a upgrade key. Any help will be great, Thanks in advance!

Here are the screen shots of the errors:

windows7error.jpg


This shows my current vista install:

currentconfig.jpg
 
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Did you run the upgrade cd from windows? I tried this and i got a similar error. I changed my boot priority and booted from the upgrade dvd and it installed just as though it were a normal copy, rather than an upgrade!

Maybe you should try this?

Also - you said you can't do a fresh install because your key is for an upgrade. Have you actually tried it? Because my key (and DVD) is for an upgrade and mine worked!

Good luck
 
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dannaswolcott said:
I can NOT do a clean install of 7 beacuse my key is a upgrade key.
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Yes you can.

Boot from the disc, Install, Custom (advanced), select your current partition, Format, Next.

This will back up the data currently in your Vista OS and create a WINDOWS.OLD folder that you can access after installing Windows 7.

Once you root around in the WINDOWS.OLD folder and get all the data you need, you can delete it.
 
[I can NOT do a clean install of 7 beacuse my key is a upgrade key.[/QUOTE]

Try to do clean installation you should able to do it.
 
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