man do i post alot of threads. OK. Theres a pc in my family. i want to upgrade it to windows 7. here's the the thing. It has vista OEM so i have no driver cds. If i wanted to upgrade to 64 from32 clean install will it keep my drivers eg

-wireless drivers
-graphics card driver
-display driver

any others

SIMPLY will it keep/install the drivers???

You can not upgrade a 32-bit Windows to a 64-bit, or vice versa. The only possibility is to do a clean install. When doing a clean install, you lose everything you had. You must reinstall all the applications, drivers and personal files.

You can in-place upgrade (keep your settings, files and apps) only when both the old and the new OS are the same, either 32-bit or 64-bit. Read more about in-place upgrade here.

You could learn more about upgrading and installing on our sister forums, the Seven Forums.

Kari

Originally Posted by nostaw5

man do i post alot of threads. OK. Theres a pc in my family. i want to upgrade it to windows 7. here's the the thing. It has vista OEM so i have no driver cds. If i wanted to upgrade to 64 from32 clean install will it keep my drivers eg

-wireless drivers
-graphics card driver
-display driver

any others

SIMPLY will it keep/install the drivers???

I cant believe I just sat here and typed for abou 15 minutes, only to hit the wrong key and lose it all
ANYway...Can you give some info about the system. Cant go far without that.
You cant install a x64 bit OS on a 32bit(X86) platform, if thats the case.

If i wanted to upgrade to 64 from32 clean install will it keep my drivers eg

And those are two different installs. One suggest a "merge" of sorts, and a clean install means completely removing the previous OS and installing a "CLEAN" new OS. You can read Brinks tutorial for more info. (Sorry, I HAD typed it all out for you, but...)
It is in the Windows & forum here as well:
Tutorials - Windows 7 Forums
Let me know about that system, and I'll help you all I can.

Originally Posted by Kari

You can not upgrade a 32-bit Windows to a 64-bit, or vice versa. The only possibility is to do a clean install. When doing a clean install, you lose everything you had. You must reinstall all the applications, drivers and personal files.

You can in-place upgrade (keep your settings, files and apps) only when both the old and the new OS are the same, either 32-bit or 64-bit. Read more about in-place upgrade here.

You could learn more about upgrading and installing on our sister forums, the Seven Forums.

Kari

MAN, if I hadnt had to REtype all that, you wouldnt have beat me to the punch...haha

Originally Posted by dreemwarrior

MAN, if I hadnt had to REtype all that, you wouldnt have beat me to the punch...haha

I'm new here, came over from SF because I wanted to see this, too, so I have to try to be fast to get some rep

See you on the other side...

Kari

thanks