You can not upgrade from a 32 Bit Operating System to 64 Bit Operating
System. You will have to do a clean install and you will loose all your
installed programs.
If your documents and games are on a different partition than that of the
operating system then they will be saved. But if they are installed in the
current 32 Bit OS then they will not work after the upgrade to 64 Bit OS as
its only possible by a Clean Install.
For more information on Windows 8 Upgrade Paths you can visit -
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj203353.aspx
Hey all. I want to upgrade from windows 7 ultimate 32 bit to windows 8 64 bit. I'm not sure about this, as I'm afraid I'll lose my game collection.
I have some Games and MMOs, on local disk D. I keep all my programs and windows files on disk C. I'm OK with losing my programs, I have backup DVDs for all of them, but Games.. my internet is slow, so redownloading them will take weeks, if not months.
I could back em up on my relative's HDD, but I want to know if that will be necessary.
Thanks in advance ![]()

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