Windows 7 - upgrading 32bit Windows7 to 64 bit hangup

Asked By Shawn Bowen on 02-Feb-12 02:07 PM

Hello, I am trying to upgrade my machine to 64 bit, it is capable and has 6 gigs of RAM, but I am at a hangup in the middle of doing the upgrade, the message comes up

X:\WINDOWS~BT\Windows\system32>wpeinit

then after a minute

X:\WINDOWS~BT\Windows\system32

and it just hangs there indefinitely, what can I do?? Do I have to go buy a full new version of Windows 7?? I upgraded from Vista to Windows7 about 6 months ago and it came w 64bit disc as well, so I am trying to upgrade to make better use of my RAM for video work but am having this issue, thanks for any help you can give me!!

kalpana aparnathi replied to Shawn Bowen on 02-Feb-12 02:16 PM

hi,

First, I would update all of your major drivers. Video, sound, network, chipset, and SATA controller (the last 2 are included in the same package in some cases. Check your motherboard manufacturer's website for more info). Once those are up to date, play around with th system for a bit and see if it still freezes up on you.

You were definitely on the right track when you mentioned doing those RAM tests. For that, go download Memtest86+. If the RAM checks out, make sure your temps are all ok (lots of utilities around for this purpose - I happen to like HWMonitor from CPUID). If you aren't sure if the temps you're getting are within thermal limits for the hardware, post them here and we can find out for you.

If those are ok, I would look at doing some diagnostics on the hard drive. The Ultimate Boot CD (www.ultimatebootcd.com) has lots of good HDD diagnostic tools.

Shawn Bowen replied to kalpana aparnathi on 02-Feb-12 02:22 PM

Thanks for your reply, the thing is I was mid installation and now it's just hung up on this screen, should I just take the disc out and see if it goes back to how it was before I started the Windows upgrade??

kalpana aparnathi replied to Shawn Bowen on 02-Feb-12 02:28 PM

yes please take disc out from your pc just now and try to get some response from pc means that somewhat message is given by the pc so please check it and follow that instruction which is given by it.