Installing 64 bit to New Hard Drive from upgrade disk

I currently have Win 7 Home 32 bit installed. I will be upgrading my system and using a new Sata hard drive.
I would like to install my Win 7 retail upgrade disk [ the 64 bit version ] on the new drive.
Can I do this? If so what would be the easiest way to retain all information from my current 32 bit drive?

Mrgooch said:

I currently have Win 7 Home 32 bit installed. I will be upgrading my system and using a new Sata hard drive.
I would like to install my Win 7 upgrade disk [ the 64 bit version ] on the new drive.
Can I do this? If so what would be the easiest way to retain all information from my current 32 bit drive?

When changing from 32 bit to 64 you MUST do a clean install and therefor have to re-install the apps.

Upgrade disk? Not full redial, or OEM?

Yes, you can do it.

"Information". What "information"???

The Windows "information" will be wiped out, bye bye.

Your personal files "information" needs to be backed up before you begin.

I have the retail disks 32 and 64 bit. I upgraded from Win XP.
I will be redoing my entire computer,motherboard,cpu,memory hard drive DVD drive.
My current Hard drive is IDE.

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Mrgooch said:

I have the retail disks 32 and 64 bit. I upgraded from Win XP.
I will be redoing my entire computer,motherboard,cpu,memory hard drive DVD drive.
My current Hard drive is IDE.

Great so You are going to do a clean install to an empty drive. My concern is stil what version of win 7 you have. (full retail, oem, upgrade.)

I tried doing a clean install of my current hard drive and I was not able to see the option to Format so I cancelled the install. Why no format option?

zigzag3143 said:

Mrgooch said:

I have the retail disks 32 and 64 bit. I upgraded from Win XP.
I will be redoing my entire computer,motherboard,cpu,memory hard drive DVD drive.
My current Hard drive is IDE.

Great so You are going to do a clean install to an empty drive. My concern is stil what version of win 7 you have. (full retail, oem, upgrade.)

Retail UPGRADE

Retail Upgrade is what you need. Good.

You won't see a "format" option per se. Just create the partitions midway into the install. Formatting will be done automatically.

Mrgooch said:

I tried doing a clean install of my current hard drive and I was not able to see the option to Format so I cancelled the install. Why no format option?

If you click drive options, format should show up.