Tuesday, February 27, 2018

64 bit - How to switch from 32 bit to 64bit without reinstalling?




I have a laptop supports 64bit. I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 32 bit by a mistake I installed 32bit. Now I want to switch from 32 bit to 64 bit and a new version of Ubuntu 12.10 is also available so I want to install it.




Is there any easy way with out New Installation ?



I have a separate partition for Ubuntu of 40 Gb size if I reinstall the new 64 bit version on it will it remove my applications and other stuff from the other partitions. Like /home partition and /data partition.



Also tell how to make backup.



As far as I know there is no way by which you can convert a 32-Bit Ubuntu into 64-Bit without reinstalling the whole new 64-Bit operating system.
And there is no harm in using 32-bit Ubuntu unless you have more than 4Gb of RAM and you want to use maximum of it.
And if you really want to use 64-Bit then backup all your data and format your current 32-Bit version and install 64-Bit version.


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