iTunes + Windows XP 64 bits, how?

[NormaJ]

Hi all, it's a long time now, well Merry Christmas to you all.
Ok, so I got an iPad. I want to install iTunes on my computer, Windows XP 64 bits edition, and have not been capable so far. New version of iTunes is only for 32 bits, so it won't install. The 64 bits version is only working for Vista and/or W7, so it won't install, either.
Please, can someone help me with this?
Thanks in advance.

[classfour]

XP64 is a different animal. If it won't install, it won't install.

There's alot of hardware that drivers aren't even made for that OS, so you can't install some hardware (a Linksys wireless card comes to mind).

[edDV]

XP 64 bit received little driver or application support. It was mainly a developer toy. Serious driver development was targeted to Vista 32/64.

[Moontrash]

I suggest you run far away from itunes and get on MediaMonkey. Works better and works on a 64 bit system. Free version works perfect.

[Ai Haibara]

As far as I know, MediaMonkey isn't an option if the OP wants to initialize the iPad, make sure it has the latest firmware/system updates, or buy anything from the iTunes store (the OP has an iPad, remember).

[Moontrash]

my bad...every time i see a reference to itunes i automatically think ipod...maybe u oughta run a Virtual os...add xp 32bit as the virtual os and run itunes in there

so i'm guessing your using xp 64bit?

[jman98]

I found the following rather quickly via a Google search. No offense, but did you even try that?
http://pctech.invisibill.net/?page_id=36
This guy says he got it working under XP64 and he explains how.

Other options to get it to work, which are uglier but will succeed, are to install XP32 in a virtual machine or to upgrade to Windows 7 64 bit (do NOT "upgrade" to Vista - Vista is terrible!)

[NormaJ]

Thank you all for your responses. Of course I ran as far away from iTunes as I could, as long as I was capable, but now someone gifted me an iPad, that I love by the way, and I need iTunes to work.
Jman98, of course I Google searched, and I found something much like your link, I installed iTunes 9, BUT computer won't "see" my iPad, so it's good for nothing.
I don't want iTunes to play nor buy music and things like that, but only to synch iPad with pc, that's all.
Must keep searching over there.
Moontrash, thanks, I will give a try to MediaMonkey, it looks like it can synch at least music. I was thinking on Office Documents and, overall, address book from Outlook, though...
I shouldn't have installed XP 64 bits, ugh!!!

[jman98]

Interesting. I found that the iPad requires a minimum of iTunes 9.1 to work. I think the iTunes used in my link is 9.0.1.

Sorry, but I had to ask if you even tried to search for a solution. A lot of people here do not and expect us to do all their work for them.

[NormaJ]

I'm downloading iTunes 10 to my W7 64 bits laptop right now. I will have to synch computer with iPad using laptop as intermediary, until I figure out a better way. MediaMonkey did not work.

[NormaJ]

I got it done. My address book is now in my iPad, as said, using my lapatop

[festmaster]

I ran into the same issue when I got my first generation iPod touch and wanted to sync with my old Win2000 machine. Apple's policy is to support only two versions of an OS when a product is released, the current one and the immediate past one. In my case that would have been Vista and XP. For your iPad, it is Win 7 and Vista. Luckily you have a Win 7 machine.