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Restore from 32bit to a 64bit Windows 7

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G'day all, first posting and first attempt at restore. A catastrophic hard drive crash using Win 7 32bit has occurred. The drive had been backed up using Acronis True Image Home 2012. The new/replacement computer has Win 7 64bit installed.

Is this a straight forward restore or is there things I should know and carry out. Thanks for a great product. I never did get Win 7 backup/restore to function.

Cheers, Mac

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I also should have mentioned that I think I need to purchase Acronis® True Image™ Home 2012 Plus Pack to achieve the restore to new hardware. I have the "three machine" installation of True Image, but of course one installation is currently lost on the crashed drive. Detail on configuring True Image and the Plus Pack prior to restoring will be much appreciated.

Greetings,
Please keep the following in mind. If the new machine is x64 bit capable, you may lose some of the hardware features available. One being the amount of memory a x32bit OS can address. If you have 4GB or less of RAM installed, you could proceed. If you have more, it will not be addressable unless you install x64bit windows.

Other hardware can play a role, but you are basically capped at 4GB with a x32bit OS - In General

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Thank you very much for your prompt reply. The new computer which has Win 7 64 bit installed, has 8GB of DDR3 RAM and an Intel i5 CPU. This is an improvement on the, now crashed machine. My concern is really restoring an image from from a 32bit OpSys to a new 64bit OpSys installation.

Arismac:

Basically, you can't achieve the outcome that I think you desire with imaging software. If you restore your image to the new PC it will replace 64-bit Win 7 on the new PC with the 32-bit Win 7 installation from your old PC. Like Shadowsports said, if you run 32-bit Windows you won't have the ability to take advantage of your full 8 GB of RAM.

If you want to run 64-bit Windows 7 on the new PC then you should not restore the image of your old machine. However, you can restore individual files and folders so you can use True Image to restore your personal files. But you will have to reinstall any programs that you wish to run on the new PC, so you will need their installation disks.

IMO, in the long run, you'll be better off if you just keep the w7-64 and reinstall progs. If you install ati then uou can mount the image and copy out your data files so that you don't have to pick all the ones you want in one step and do a restore with its attendant reboot in linux. When you mount the backup, it is treated like a virtual disk.

Thank you Mark and Scott. Good advice, I will restore folders and files only and then re-install programs.

Thanks again, Mac