32bit and 64bit mess

ccd

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I have a very unique situation. Long story short, I bought a vista home premium 32bit laptop and had it replaced with a vista home premium 64bit laptop under warranty. Somehow I lost the recovery disc for my current laptop(the 64bit) so I used the 32bit recovery disc to reinstall the os. It works fine, except of course now I only have 3gig ram instead of 4, and some of my drivers aren't compatible. My question is, is there any way of installing the 64bit version of vista home premium on my computer using the 32bit recovery disc? I have heard that all I need is the vista disc and my 64bit product key, but it never asks for a product key during installation.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Gateway
    CPU
    Intel Centrino Duo T5750
    Memory
    4GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel
    Sound Card
    Sigmatel
    Hard Drives
    Seagate Momentus 320GB 5400rpm
Have you tried System Restore back to when VHP 64 bit was working properly?
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    HP Pavilon Elite
    CPU
    Intel(R)Core(TM)2 Quad CPU [email protected]
    Motherboard
    ASUS eK Berkeley
    Memory
    4GB
    Monitor(s) Displays
    HP w2408 Vivid Color Widescreen LCD
    Cooling
    That's where I keep my beer
    Keyboard
    MS WIRELESS
    Mouse
    MS WIRELESS
    Internet Speed
    AT&T Uverse DSL
I have a very unique situation. Long story short, I bought a vista home premium 32bit laptop and had it replaced with a vista home premium 64bit laptop under warranty. Somehow I lost the recovery disc for my current laptop(the 64bit) so I used the 32bit recovery disc to reinstall the os. It works fine, except of course now I only have 3gig ram instead of 4, and some of my drivers aren't compatible. My question is, is there any way of installing the 64bit version of vista home premium on my computer using the 32bit recovery disc? I have heard that all I need is the vista disc and my 64bit product key, but it never asks for a product key during installation.

You need to contact the manufacturer, and order a set of 64-bit Reccovery DIsks for your computer.

(System Restore will NOT do anything for you)


Having said that, with only 4GB there's not much point in going to 64-bit, since 32-bit *does* use all 4GB, although some of it is reserved for hardware, and so not declared as available for OS use - it's more a case of semantics than anything else.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Acer Aspire 8930G
No, 32Bit technically sees 4 Gigs, but you then need to subtract the system ram too. So you only see about 3.23.6Gigs.

You can use another legitimate 64bit disk, as in from a friend, but it needs to be a vanilla disk, not an oem recovery disk.
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    Dual L5639 // i7 950 @ 4.0Ghz
    Motherboard
    Evga SR-2 // Gigabyte x58a-ud3r
    Memory
    12Gig Corsair XMS3 // 6Gig OCZ Gold
    Graphics Card(s)
    gtx 560 ti // gtx 260-216
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dual 22" // Headless
    Hard Drives
    OCZ aGILITY 3, 120Gig + Seagate 500Gig x 2
    PSU
    Silverstone da700 // Corsair 520hx
    Case
    Rosewill BlackHawk Ultra // Antec 900v1
    Cooling
    Twin CM Hyper 212+ // Noctua NH-u12
    Other Info
    Acer 8930 laptop with x9100...
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