move to 64bit windows

[El Heggunte]

It's been a while since I dual-booted XP and Win7, but I'm pretty sure you have to install XP first. I think it has to do with XP's installer not detecting existing installs of newer versions of Windows properly.

Actually, that's a "feature" ( read: intentional design flaw ) of Windows itself: multiple-boot setups require the older versions of the OS to be installed before the [irony]latest and greatest[/irony] ones. BTW, there is NO "ntldr + ntdetect.com" since Windows Vista.

[CubDukat]

I recently made the changeover from 32-bit Win7 Home Premium to 64-Bit Win7 Pro, and I'm not regretting it. I just wish it could take real advantage of the FX-6100 I just put into my system, but that's not necessarily AMD's fault. Even if it can't really take full advantage, though, it definitely beats the hell out of 32-bit. Now my MeGUI encodes for Blu-Ray actually get done in a reasonable amount of time, and I'm not even maxing out memory.

I kick myself for not doing it sooner.