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    Best way to upgrade a Dell Studio 1537 to SDD and Windows 7 64-bit

    Thanks for your reply - I have Macrium Reflect, which will both clone and image copy. The problem is the existing system is 32 bit with a recovery partition, and I want 64 bits and no extra partition. I certainly agree about backup - it's a very high priority with me. In this case the...
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    Best way to upgrade a Dell Studio 1537 to SDD and Windows 7 64-bit

    I have a product key, but it is an Upgrade disk, which I thought required an existing system on the disk being installed - the new SSD is of course empty. Am I wrong about that?
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    Best way to upgrade a Dell Studio 1537 to SDD and Windows 7 64-bit

    I have a Dell Studio 1537 laptop running Windows 7 32-bit on the original 320 GB disk, partitioned into C and D with a Recovery partition on D. It has 4 GB memory of which only 2.99 GB is usable, presumably because of the 32-bit installation. The Windows 7 was installed over Vista 32 using an...