32 bit to 64 bit

I recently bought a laptop from Lenovo's outlet with Windows 7 32-bit and just found out the 64-bit version handles larger amounts of ram. Is there a way to get a free copy of Windows 64 bit from Lenovo if I have the 32 bit version? Thanks in advance.

 

from Lenovo you would have to pay around 50 USD shipping and handling service charge. But you can download an ISO of the 64 bit from here and activate it using the serial number under your laptop.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/win...-7-download-links-just-like-vista-before.html

You can download most of the drivers from Lenovo.com website, but you won't have the recovery partition (which is not a big deal if you take an img of the hdd).

 

You can also use Thinkvantage System Update to speed up the process of downloading all the correct drivers for you once you put a new Windows install on your system.

Though I highly recommend downloading the Graphics drivers and Wireless/Ethernet drivers on a USB key just in case Windows 7 can't find them natively. Otherwise you will have difficulty navigating with the basic lo-res graphics and have no means of logging onto the net which Thinkvantage System Update depends on to download the rest of the drivers.

 

I've read that once all the memory in SSDs is used they are practically useless, meaning you can't delete information to save some more. Therefore I think one must be careful what information he/she decides to save on the drive. My question is, if the laptop I ordered currently has the 32-bit version of Windows 7 and I decide to install the 64-bit version, will I overwrite the current version of windows or will I create a new file which will take up more space of the SSD?
Thanks in advance.

 

There is a lot more reading you can do about how SSD's work (and don't do it from forums, do it from places like Anand or StorageReview), the best cliff notes I can give you is "SSD's don't work the way you seem to think they do."

And any write is 'new data', even if you're overwriting an existing file. Even on spinning disk drives, you don't write over the location of the old data, you write to a brand new location and the old location file record is repointed. Nevertheless, again, this isn't an issue on any current SSD.

To maintain maximum speed, you can do a 'secure erase' of the SSD before installing your new OS. That's the most you'd have to do, and even then, modern SSD drives have garbage collection to go after those no-longer-needed blocks.

 

Thank to everyone for the info.