Retail Vista ultimate 64 overwrite viste premium 32

My question is if I have retail version of vista ultimate 64 bit and on the
system I have vista home premium 32 bit can I overwrite it with a install
I am trying to utilize the 6 gig of ram installed on the system

Will this allow me to overwrite it and not lose all the programs or data on
the hard disk

"brokenpaint" <brokenpaint@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My question is if I have retail version of vista ultimate 64 bit and on
> the
> system I have vista home premium 32 bit can I overwrite it with a install
> I am trying to utilize the 6 gig of ram installed on the system

Apparently you have to overwrite. It lokoks like you can't do a direct
upgrade - it looks like basically a clean install.

>
> Will this allow me to overwrite it and not lose all the programs or data
> on
> the hard disk

From this page, it looks like the drive is cleared as part of the v64
"custom" install. You must back up your data and reinstall programs.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932795

HTH
-pk

You also have to be sure that you have a 64bit processor installed and that
your MOBO does in fact support more then 4GB of memory.
"Patrick Keenan" <test@dev.null> wrote in message
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> "brokenpaint" <brokenpaint@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:0ED2613F-2376-44FE-9317-0AC0481334CA@microsoft.com...
>> My question is if I have retail version of vista ultimate 64 bit and on
>> the
>> system I have vista home premium 32 bit can I overwrite it with a
>> install
>> I am trying to utilize the 6 gig of ram installed on the system
>
> Apparently you have to overwrite. It lokoks like you can't do a direct
> upgrade - it looks like basically a clean install.
>
>>
>> Will this allow me to overwrite it and not lose all the programs or data
>> on
>> the hard disk
>
> From this page, it looks like the drive is cleared as part of the v64
> "custom" install. You must back up your data and reinstall programs.
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932795
>
> HTH
> -pk
>

You have answers sitting at vista.general

It shows ignorance to multi-post here!

"brokenpaint" wrote:

> My question is if I have retail version of vista ultimate 64 bit and on the
> system I have vista home premium 32 bit can I overwrite it with a install
> I am trying to utilize the 6 gig of ram installed on the system
>
> Will this allow me to overwrite it and not lose all the programs or data on
> the hard disk
>
>