Happy ending...
borrowed retail disc from son,
installed 64bit from boot
used my net bought key.
et voila
It's all good thanks.
Appreciate your efforts guys
:)
Thanks for your time on this but I ended up downloading windows 8 again and saving it as an iso image. Problem is I only got a 2gig image and I'm guessing I still won't have the option to go 64bit with an install from this disc.
I'm wondering now if I could borrow my sons retail upgrade disc...
I just joined the forum for the same reason. Was running my desk top on trusty old 32bit XP but wanted to go 64bit and thought windows 8 upgrade would do it. So sad when I ended up with 32bit Windows 8. My system should run fine on either but looks like Microsoft like to have control over my...