You need to boot from that Disc and will have to reformat you PC to install it

yeah i was in windows XP when I put the disc in.

I'm on 32-bit Windows 7 just now - how do I install the 64-bit now?

This is confusing :s

Put the 64bit cd in the drive.

Reboot your pc

Access the bios of your pc by pressing DEL or F10 or whatever key it mentions (you will notice that it shows in the startup of the pc "press XXX for setup"

Make sure your dvd drive is set to boot first than your hard drive by going to boot devices on bios and moving it to 1st position.

Exit saving changes.

When the prompt "press any key to boot from cd" appears...

press and it will boot from the cd.

Then follow the same setup steps.

so i can do this now even though I've installed 32-bit windows 7? It won't muck my computer up?

If you have all your stuff backed up then yes.

Installing via booting the DVD is not an upgrade, but a completely clean install.

Make sure, for peace of mind, that your documents and anything you want to keep are not on the drive you install Win 7 onto.

Just about to start my install - see you in hour

Bios started the Win7 boot DVD at 5.05pm.

Online by 5.27 on Win 7.

Not too bad.

Now to reinstall everything ...

got my 64-bit Win 7 running

Only problem so far is that my headset doesn't work! Just trying to fix it atm!

k - I've only got the rear speaker and microphone jacks working now (

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Welcome to the club... lol

Its like that with me since vista. I cant have the 2 on at the same time.