On 08/04/11 20:54, Ted Wiseman wrote:
On 8/3/2011 11:09 PM, David Ross wrote:
I have a refurbed T410 on order that comes preinstalled with W7
Professional
32 bit. I would like to change it to 64 bit. Apparently some recovery
media
from Lenovo lets you do this:
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/guides-and-manuals/detail.page?&LegacyDocID=MIGR-74752
Can I do it as well with what I already have on hand?
I do have a W7 Ultimate upgrade edition DVD (from an upgrade from
Vista on
another machine) that has both 32 and 64 bit installs on it, and my
X201t is
running 64 bit W7 Professional and I have a recovery preload from it
available. Can I make the change with one of these, or do I have to
track down the
media from Lenovo?
I don't know the answer with regard to any of the scenarios you
mentioned, but on 12/4/11 Dominique Pivard posted to this list a
legal/free method for installing W7 Pro 64 on an X301 originally
loaded with W7 Pro 32. He linked to this thread on Bill Morrow's forum
http://forums.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=92409&p=605554#p605554 and
the last three posts in that thread contain the relevant info.
I'll have to look at that link--I missed that.
But one caution for the 64 bit Windows, which is to make sure that the
software
you want to use will run in 64 bit mode. A friend was mislead by the
makers of
software that he used, and found out the hard way that it didn't work.
The vast majority of software will work in 64 bit mode, or will with an
upgrade
but there is still some out there that won't.
--STeve Andre'
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