I have a Inspiron 1501 laptop on which I currently run Visa 32 bit. I'm wanting to upgrade to 64 bit Window's 7 when it comes out. The processor can handle 64 bit as its a AMD 64 X2. I do however wish to upgrade my memory.

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I just had my samsung 320Gb hard disk sata disk which went dead on me and have now lost all my data. I have now installed a new drive and tried to restore my OS to original factory settings with my disks which I created around two years ago.