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‎11-03-2019 01:02 AM

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Product: Probook 440
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (32-bit)

I did a system recovery (factory reset). My OS got reset to Win10-32 bit.

How can I re-install the OS to 64bit?

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‎11-03-2019 08:12 AM

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@Damo21 

In terms of simply changing it -- you can't.  You have to completely reinstall the OS from scratch.

 

And to do that, you either need HP Recovery Media or you would have to download Win10 media, create a USB stick of that, and boot from that to reinstall the OS.

 

You can get the Win10 file from here:  Windows 10 download



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