Windows 10 Installation Issue [SOLVED]

[Eh Team]

Allow me to explain.

So around a year ago, maybe longer, my college sold off a bunch of their "old" computers and I bought one thinking I could use it for gaming. Well that idea went in the trash pretty quickly since my college had decided that 32 bit Windows was good enough even though the processor is x64 based. This was found out after I had bought 8 more gigs of RAM for it so things would run smoother. A GTX 960 later, I decided to upgrade to Windows 10 for free, in hopes that the process would give me the option to get the version my PC really should be running. That thought was wrong so now my desktop has 32 bit Win 10 and I want 64 bit.

Fast forward to yesterday when I finally got around to making a bootable thumb drive with Win 10 64 on it. Having finished late in the day I waited until today to make an attempt to get it installed. I have gone into the BIOS and changed the first boot drive to my removable stick and disabled the others, but each time the system just boots up from the hard drive into the 32 bit mode and totally ignores the stick.

Could my problem be that since Windows 10 is already installed it refuses to install it again, or am I actually doing something wrong?

 

[Sanji Himura]

The upgrade that you installed the first time was determined by the OS. If you had the 32 bit version of windows 7 installed, you will get the 32 bit version of Windows 10.

 

[Eh Team]

The upgrade that you installed the first time was determined by the OS. If you had the 32 bit version of windows 7 installed, you will get the 32 bit version of Windows 10.

I did figure that out after, but I should be able to get the thumb drive to boot and start the install of the 64 bit version. The PC however, totally ignores the fact that it's there it seems.

 

[BobK]

Can you boot other OSs from a thumb drive? If not it's a BIOS issue.

 

[Eh Team]

Can you boot other OSs from a thumb drive? If not it's a BIOS issue.

I have no idea because I haven't had to do this previously, but I have got it to boot now.

Good News: I have managed to get the installation process started.

Bad News: System cannot find any drivers on the bootable drive or anywhere on the computer.
It comes with this message: No device drivers were found. Make sure the installation media contains the correct drivers, and then click OK.

I have no idea what to do from this point, but it would be really handy if there was a place I could download every Win 10 driver out there so it can pick and choose what it needs.

 

[Grayfox]

I have no idea because I haven't had to do this previously, but I have got it to boot now.

Good News: I have managed to get the installation process started.

Bad News: System cannot find any drivers on the bootable drive or anywhere on the computer.
It comes with this message: No device drivers were found. Make sure the installation media contains the correct drivers, and then click OK.

I have no idea what to do from this point, but it would be really handy if there was a place I could download every Win 10 driver out there so it can pick and choose what it needs.

This is because you loaded windows 10 from a USB.

It happens to me when i do it on a windows 7

IIRC.

Go back to the main install window(where you get install now or repair), remove the USB drive, plug the USB drive into another slot, click start install

 

[Eh Team]

This is because you loaded windows 10 from a USB.

It happens to me when i do it on a windows 7

IIRC.

Go back to the main install window(where you get install now or repair), remove the USB drive, plug the USB drive into another slot, click start install

I tried that with every slot but got nowhere each time. I did manage to get it to install though via the upgrade option in the installation options. So my problem is now solved, thanks to everyone for their help.