I am currently running a 32-bit Vista Home Premium os and am trying to upgrade to Windows 7 Professional 64-bit os (that I bought online through a offer for students, I also bought the CD copy of it as a back up). I have 2 GB of RAM, 64-bit processor, and 320 GB hard drive.
Before I bought Windows 7, I used Windows & Upgrade Advisor to see if I could run it and my results were good, online a few things like my printer were said to need an update after installation. I also went to my Performance Information and Tools and looked at the System info and it said that my system was 64-bit capable.
After I paid for Windows 7 I was given the option of 2 different downloads, one was .ISO and the other .EXE. I first tried the .ISO and all i was given after downloading it was this program (whose icon was 3 different colored books) that had took all my programs/files and offered to sell me their file transfering program.
Then I tried the .EXE download. After it had finished I clicked on Run, which unloaded the box. After the box was unloaded I received this error message saying "We are unable to create or save new files in the folder properties to make sure that you have security permission on the folder to write files and that the folder is not read-only.
This download placed 2 icons onto my desktop: 1) Win7-P-Retail-en-us-x64 ; 2) expandedSetup
I then opened the expandedSetup folder on my desktop and clicked on an application labeled setup, only to receive an error message saying "The version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you're running. Check you computer's system informatino to see wheter you need an x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher."
Does anyone have any ideas on how to make it work?
Before I bought Windows 7, I used Windows & Upgrade Advisor to see if I could run it and my results were good, online a few things like my printer were said to need an update after installation. I also went to my Performance Information and Tools and looked at the System info and it said that my system was 64-bit capable.
After I paid for Windows 7 I was given the option of 2 different downloads, one was .ISO and the other .EXE. I first tried the .ISO and all i was given after downloading it was this program (whose icon was 3 different colored books) that had took all my programs/files and offered to sell me their file transfering program.
Then I tried the .EXE download. After it had finished I clicked on Run, which unloaded the box. After the box was unloaded I received this error message saying "We are unable to create or save new files in the folder properties to make sure that you have security permission on the folder to write files and that the folder is not read-only.
This download placed 2 icons onto my desktop: 1) Win7-P-Retail-en-us-x64 ; 2) expandedSetup
I then opened the expandedSetup folder on my desktop and clicked on an application labeled setup, only to receive an error message saying "The version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you're running. Check you computer's system informatino to see wheter you need an x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher."
Does anyone have any ideas on how to make it work?