After my complete night search over the internet surfing, I found that there was a simple mistake of "\" without quotes. There is no need to go for 64 bit. I am running windows 7 (32 bit), having MS Office 2007 installed.
Please have a look at here. http://www.ashishblog.com/blog/import-excel-2007-xlsx-sheet-into-sql-server-2008-without-query.
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