HD crashed, how do I find if OS is 32 or 64 bit?

[Kitty7]

Hi. My hard drive died last night and I have ordered a replacement. I tried to order recovery disks from the HP sites, but it said it doesn't service this model anymore. So I looked online, found a place with the disks, but was asked if the OS was windows 7 32 or 64 bit. 

I've spent almost the last hour looking for this info online and  on the little bit the computer I can still access. That info wasn't listed in BIOS or when I hit f2. I did find out that the memory capacity is 4096 mb ram, if that is relevant in any way.

Thanks in advance!

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

The parts list for your notebook is of no help either...

http://partsurfer.hp.com/Search.aspx?SearchText=VC034AV

You can go either way since you have 4 GB of memory.

If it were me, and I had to choose 32 or 64 bit (give the option of I could have either one), with 4 GB of memory, I would go with the 64 bit operating system.

FYI, the dv6-1300sb came with W7 64 bit, so I would definitely go that way...

http://support.hp.com/us-en/product/HP-Pavilion-dv6-1300-Entertainment-Notebook-PC-series/3999443/mo...

[y2ken · Accepted solution]

If you go to the User Guides section of the Product Support page for your system and click the  HP Pavilion dv6 Entertainment PC - Maintenance and Service Guide you will see on page on page 1-2 that your system supports up to 8G of RAM memory. 32bit systems only support up to 4G of RAM so I think it's safe to say that you have a 64bit system.  

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[Kitty7]

Thank you both so much for taking the time to reply. I'll get a 64 bit recovery disk.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

[y2ken]

You're welcome! Glad I could help.  

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