General Upgrade Questions

[iMac Hunt]

Hi guys!

It's my first time posting on the forums so I hope I am posting this in the correct section. Apologize in advance if i'm not.

So, I am currently running a 32 bit system (Bad, I know). My processor is made by AMD and I've only got one hard-drive in which my operating system and everything else is stored to.

Due to upcoming events i'm going to be upgrading to a 64 bit system running an i7 processor and hopefully an SSD.

What I would like to know is:

When upgrading from a 32bit OS to a 64bit OS, will everything on my hard-drive be wiped?
If I go to install the new 64bit OS to an SSD will I not have to worry about the contents on my old HDD? If so, will I just have to specify upon launch which OS I would like to run, The 32 or 64bit?

If you have any other suggestions for me, please feel free to post. I want to get as much knowledge before upgrading to ensure it goes as smoothly as possible.
FYI, i'll be backing up the most important things I have to an external hard drive just in case anything happens.

 

[stulid]

Hi,

If you use an SSD, unplug the HDD, install onto the SSD, reattach the HDD and then format it in disk management and use it as a storage drive.

No need to keep 32bit onto it.

 

[iMac Hunt]

Hi,

If you use an SSD, unplug the HDD, install onto the SSD, reattach the HDD and then format it in disk management and use it as a storage drive.

No need to keep 32bit onto it.

So, correct me if i'm wrong.

When I got to upgrade, start the PC installing the new OS onto the SSD. Then when everything is running, re-install my old hard-drive, configure it and remove the old OS from it to free up space? That way I don't have to worry about the contents of the hard drive being wiped?

 

[stulid]

grab anything important that you want to keep and store elsewhere, then once in windows (running of the SSD) you can just format the whole HDD and it will be come a D: or E: etc drive that you can use to store stuff.

 

[iMac Hunt]

grab anything important that you want to keep and store elsewhere, then once in windows (running of the SSD) you can just format the whole HDD and it will be come a D: or E: etc drive that you can use to store stuff.

I get you!
Time to get backing up my work and games then
Thanks for the quick reply!

 

[DaleTheWhale]

Trick I normally use when moving from a HDD.

Create a partition on the HDD, and move everything you want to back up into it.
Install windows onto the SSD, reattach the drive & format the old partition, move the backup files into that partition & extend the partition into the other.

Also quicker than copying between disks as it's all on the same one.

Saves the need for 2 HDD's!