daymoon
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Registered: 1st Aug 08
Location: Selby, North Yorkshire
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Right, Bought a Laptop 2 years ago with windows 7 on it.
Didn't like it so my dad installed windows XP on it.
That required the hidded partition removed.
Now I want to have the 64bit windows so I can have 8GB RAM instead of 3 I have now...
Currently running 32-bit XP. Reading online it seems that I have to format my hard drive and boot from 64bit cd.
So i am trying to get hold of Acer Windows 7 CD.
I looked all through Acer website and american website offers to buy a CD online, but it doesn't recognise my laptop due to it being a UK one.
UK website doesn't seem to offer this.
Is there anything else I can do before I give up?
Would acer sell me a CD if i were to provide them with the Windows serial number of my laptop?
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Sam
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Registered: 24th Dec 99
Location: West Midlands
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Give them a call and ask on Monday.
Majority of laptops these days only ship with the restore partition and no discs to save on cost, sometimes there is an option to make your own backup discs via a program pre-installed on Windows but this doesn't obviously apply to you any more.
Alternatively, borrow a Windows 7 64-bit DVD from someone and install using the license key on the base of your laptop.
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_Allan_
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Registered: 24th Mar 04
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Why do yo uneed an Acer CD? Get hold of a copy of 64bit Windows 7 and install it and then in general you can download the drivers required from the manufacturers website.
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Nismo
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Registered: 12th Sep 02
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Download the ISO, burn to disc, reformat.
http://www.mydigitallife.info/windows-7-iso-x86-and-x64-official-direct-download-links-ultimate-professional-and-home-premium/
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pow
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Registered: 11th Sep 06
Location: Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire
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That won't work, it'll be registered to work with retail only keys... Sammmm... you should know that.
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Sam
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Registered: 24th Dec 99
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Yes it will.
Enter the product key as normal during installation and then use the phone activation method when installation has finished.
In XP I've always just used the MS Product Key Update Tool for doing the above.
[Edited on 17-07-2011 by Sam]
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