32 and 64 bit

[fireball1624]

So I have an Athlon 64 3800+ Venice core but i'm running a 32 bit copy of windows. When i tried to install a 64 bit copy of Fedora Core 5 it said i didn't have a 64 bit processor. I am assuming that this is because windows somehow locks it into a 32 bit mode or just recognizes it as that. Is that correct and is there a workaround?

 

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Why, oh why don't they do it vice versa?
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[fireball1624]

definetly...but is there no work around or anything...aside from having to deal with 64 bit windows???