Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit Not Working?

Hello. I had Windows XP 32 bit for a long time - decided to switch. I'm looking @ Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. I have the dvd, when I boot from CD, it doesn't work - and when I try and open it manually from My Computer>DVD Drive, I get: This installation disk is not compatible with your version of Windows. Can I transfer from 32 bit to 64 bit? I don't care if all my files get erased and I need to make a new partition.

Note: I tried the same thing with Winwdows 7 Home Premium 32 bit, and it worked fine. Seems like I can transfer from 32 bit to another version of 32 bit?

dankup said:

Hello. I had Windows XP 32 bit for a long time - decided to switch. I'm looking @ Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. I have the dvd, when I boot from CD, it doesn't work - and when I try and open it manually from My Computer>DVD Drive, I get: This installation disk is not compatible with your version of Windows. Can I transfer from 32 bit to 64 bit? I don't care if all my files get erased and I need to make a new partition.

Note: I tried the same thing with Winwdows 7 Home Premium 32 bit, and it worked fine. Seems like I can transfer from 32 bit to another version of 32 bit?

You can upgrade 32bit to 32bit. You need to clean install from 32 to 64. To install 64 bit you need to boot from the dvd. Can your hardware run 64bit?


Ken

zigzag3143 said:

dankup said:

Hello. I had Windows XP 32 bit for a long time - decided to switch. I'm looking @ Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. I have the dvd, when I boot from CD, it doesn't work - and when I try and open it manually from My Computer>DVD Drive, I get: This installation disk is not compatible with your version of Windows. Can I transfer from 32 bit to 64 bit? I don't care if all my files get erased and I need to make a new partition.

Note: I tried the same thing with Winwdows 7 Home Premium 32 bit, and it worked fine. Seems like I can transfer from 32 bit to another version of 32 bit?

You can upgrade 32bit to 32bit. You need to clean install from 32 to 64. To install 64 bit you need to boot from the dvd. Can your hardware run 64bit?


Ken

It should. Dual core CPU, 4 GB of RAM, tried to run from dvd, nothing.

Again, you cannot run the DVD, you must boot it:

Boot from CD - How to Boot your Computer from a Bootable CD or DVD - Boot to CD

If DVD will still not boot, try removing all but 2gb of RAM. Reseat RAM, swap sticks, test your ram using memtest86 for at least 6 passes.

Test your HD using maker's diag/repair full CD scan: http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=287

Where did you get Win7? Did you burn it yourself?

gregrocker said:

Again, you cannot run the DVD, you must boot it:

Boot from CD - How to Boot your Computer from a Bootable CD or DVD - Boot to CD

What if the dvd is not bootable?

Where did you get Win7?

You'll need the ISO file or to convert your download if necessary to ISO, then burn it to DVD using ImgBurn at 4x speed with Verify - it never fails.

gregrocker said:

Where did you get Win7?

You'll need the ISO file or to convert your download if necessary to ISO, then burn it to DVD using ImgBurn at 4x speed with Verify - it never fails.

Did exactly that. I made the downloaded file convert to an ISO image, then burned the ISO onto a clean DVD.

Verify the DVD against ISO file using ImgBurn.

Then if necessary burn another at 4x speed with Verify ticked.

Where did you download from. You may need to check the SHA/HASH against official checksum.