I want 64 bit

I bought a Toshiba Satellite Turion 64 (TL-58), and it has Vista Home
Premium 32 bit installed. I read MS doesn't support OEM installed OS's. I
take it there are two options;
1. Get Toshiba to send me a Vista Home Premium 'recovery disk set' with the
64 bit edition on it
2. Just buy Vista Home Premium 64 bit (standard, not upgrade) myself and
install it.

Have I missed anything?

TIA,
McG.

You bought 32bit; they are not going to give you 64bit recovery disk.
Separate licence!

"McG." wrote:

> I bought a Toshiba Satellite Turion 64 (TL-58), and it has Vista Home
> Premium 32 bit installed. I read MS doesn't support OEM installed OS's. I
> take it there are two options;
> 1. Get Toshiba to send me a Vista Home Premium 'recovery disk set' with the
> 64 bit edition on it
> 2. Just buy Vista Home Premium 64 bit (standard, not upgrade) myself and
> install it.
>
> Have I missed anything?
>
> TIA,
> McG.
>
>
>

You can borrow a 64-bit DVD (all versions are on the same DVD), install
64-bit Home Premium using your existing key. Some will tell you that
you're not supposed to borrow, but it's just media. The license key is
the thing you pay for (or obtain with your PC)

McG. wrote:
> I bought a Toshiba Satellite Turion 64 (TL-58), and it has Vista Home
> Premium 32 bit installed. I read MS doesn't support OEM installed OS's. I
> take it there are two options;
> 1. Get Toshiba to send me a Vista Home Premium 'recovery disk set' with the
> 64 bit edition on it
> 2. Just buy Vista Home Premium 64 bit (standard, not upgrade) myself and
> install it.
>
> Have I missed anything?
>
> TIA,
> McG.
>
>

"Mick Murphy" <> wrote in message
news:1823B4B1-ABF7-4481-B390-...
> You bought 32bit; they are not going to give you 64bit recovery disk.
> Separate licence!
>
> "McG." wrote:
>
>> I bought a Toshiba Satellite Turion 64 (TL-58), and it has Vista Home
>> Premium 32 bit installed. I read MS doesn't support OEM installed OS's.
>> I
>> take it there are two options;
>> 1. Get Toshiba to send me a Vista Home Premium 'recovery disk set' with
>> the
>> 64 bit edition on it
>> 2. Just buy Vista Home Premium 64 bit (standard, not upgrade) myself and
>> install it.
>>
>> Have I missed anything?
>>
>> TIA,
>> McG.
>>
>>
>>
Thought so
McG.

Also, please note there is not upgrade path from 32 to 64 bit Vista, its a
clean install only. So make sure you backup your data before proceeding with
the installation. Also, ensure that your applications and device drivers are
compatible.
--
Andre
Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
My Vista Quickstart Guide:
http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
"cvp" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> You can borrow a 64-bit DVD (all versions are on the same DVD), install
> 64-bit Home Premium using your existing key. Some will tell you that
> you're not supposed to borrow, but it's just media. The license key is the
> thing you pay for (or obtain with your PC)
>
> McG. wrote:
>> I bought a Toshiba Satellite Turion 64 (TL-58), and it has Vista Home
>> Premium 32 bit installed. I read MS doesn't support OEM installed OS's.
>> I take it there are two options;
>> 1. Get Toshiba to send me a Vista Home Premium 'recovery disk set' with
>> the 64 bit edition on it
>> 2. Just buy Vista Home Premium 64 bit (standard, not upgrade) myself and
>> install it.
>>
>> Have I missed anything?
>>
>> TIA,
>> McG.

You could ask Toshiba to supply 64-bit software for your system, they may do
so at a discount from buying the software yourself. I wouldn't recommend
buying and installing 64-bit Windows yourself unless you are 100% sure that
Toshiba has 64-bit drivers for your laptop, since it's quite easy to turn a
laptop into a brick if the proper driver support is not available.

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"McG." <> wrote in message
news:eS%...
>I bought a Toshiba Satellite Turion 64 (TL-58), and it has Vista Home
>Premium 32 bit installed. I read MS doesn't support OEM installed OS's. I
>take it there are two options;
> 1. Get Toshiba to send me a Vista Home Premium 'recovery disk set' with
> the 64 bit edition on it
> 2. Just buy Vista Home Premium 64 bit (standard, not upgrade) myself and
> install it.
>
> Have I missed anything?
>
> TIA,
> McG.
>

Unless the notebook somehow supports more than 4GB RAM, is there any real
reason to go from 32 to 64? As far as I know the only real benefit has been
the support of memory. In terms of performance, etc.. I never saw anything
to indicate Windows64 would be better. Any info on this?


"Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <> wrote in message
news:%23Ry$...
> Also, please note there is not upgrade path from 32 to 64 bit Vista, its a
> clean install only. So make sure you backup your data before proceeding
> with the installation. Also, ensure that your applications and device
> drivers are compatible.
> --
> Andre
> Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
> My Vista Quickstart Guide:
> http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
> "cvp" <> wrote in message
> news:%...
>> You can borrow a 64-bit DVD (all versions are on the same DVD), install
>> 64-bit Home Premium using your existing key. Some will tell you that
>> you're not supposed to borrow, but it's just media. The license key is
>> the thing you pay for (or obtain with your PC)
>>
>> McG. wrote:
>>> I bought a Toshiba Satellite Turion 64 (TL-58), and it has Vista Home
>>> Premium 32 bit installed. I read MS doesn't support OEM installed OS's.
>>> I take it there are two options;
>>> 1. Get Toshiba to send me a Vista Home Premium 'recovery disk set' with
>>> the 64 bit edition on it
>>> 2. Just buy Vista Home Premium 64 bit (standard, not upgrade) myself and
>>> install it.
>>>
>>> Have I missed anything?
>>>
>>> TIA,
>>> McG.
>
>

Not so! The license applies to both/either 32-bit and 64-bit (only one
installed at a time). The media is not provided by default.

Mick Murphy wrote:
> You bought 32bit; they are not going to give you 64bit recovery disk.
> Separate licence!
>
> "McG." wrote:
>
>> I bought a Toshiba Satellite Turion 64 (TL-58), and it has Vista Home
>> Premium 32 bit installed. I read MS doesn't support OEM installed OS's. I
>> take it there are two options;
>> 1. Get Toshiba to send me a Vista Home Premium 'recovery disk set' with the
>> 64 bit edition on it
>> 2. Just buy Vista Home Premium 64 bit (standard, not upgrade) myself and
>> install it.
>>
>> Have I missed anything?
>>
>> TIA,
>> McG.
>>
>>
>>

I have a Acer laptop with an turion 64. 1 gig ddr2 533. I ran slow
running ultimate x86 and seems about the same with x64. But I have had
no real problems running x64 on it other then it takes a little longer
to get going from bootup. Its OK ofter that. My desktop x64 ultimate
install runs much much faster. As for other resons to go to x64.
Security! x64 is more secure and runs your hardware more efficiently.
After tommorow I will have my 3rd x64 capable machine. I will use x64
ultimate.


--
joel406

Agreed, like I said in an earlier post its really for a specific segment of
the market that understands the
capabilities, advantages and disadvantages of using it, the biggest
advantage of all has to be the support for a larger memory address space
that allows you to do more number crunching with scientific, financial and
other engineering applications that use a lot of memory. Hopefully in the
future, more mainstream applications will support the platform and harness
its capabilities, but with the majority of systems coming with 1 to 2 GBs of
memory, and 64 bit really addressing larger amounts up to 128 GBs, you won't
see a lot of apps for now.
--
Andre
Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
My Vista Quickstart Guide:
http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
"Sean" <> wrote in message
news:%23HaV%...
> Unless the notebook somehow supports more than 4GB RAM, is there any real
> reason to go from 32 to 64? As far as I know the only real benefit has
> been the support of memory. In terms of performance, etc.. I never saw
> anything to indicate Windows64 would be better. Any info on this?
>
>
> "Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <> wrote in message
> news:%23Ry$...
>> Also, please note there is not upgrade path from 32 to 64 bit Vista, its
>> a clean install only. So make sure you backup your data before proceeding
>> with the installation. Also, ensure that your applications and device
>> drivers are compatible.
>> --
>> Andre
>> Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
>> My Vista Quickstart Guide:
>> http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
>> "cvp" <> wrote in message
>> news:%...
>>> You can borrow a 64-bit DVD (all versions are on the same DVD), install
>>> 64-bit Home Premium using your existing key. Some will tell you that
>>> you're not supposed to borrow, but it's just media. The license key is
>>> the thing you pay for (or obtain with your PC)
>>>
>>> McG. wrote:
>>>> I bought a Toshiba Satellite Turion 64 (TL-58), and it has Vista Home
>>>> Premium 32 bit installed. I read MS doesn't support OEM installed
>>>> OS's. I take it there are two options;
>>>> 1. Get Toshiba to send me a Vista Home Premium 'recovery disk set' with
>>>> the 64 bit edition on it
>>>> 2. Just buy Vista Home Premium 64 bit (standard, not upgrade) myself
>>>> and install it.
>>>>
>>>> Have I missed anything?
>>>>
>>>> TIA,
>>>> McG.
>>
>>
>