Will I have to do it on my own PC or can I do it on someone else's PC? Also can you please provide exact steps to do so?
Old windows still there in another boot mode?
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Hey, few days ago I had reinstalled windows on my PC from 32 bit to 64 bit but after that had to reset it cuz of start up issue.
But yesterday when I went to my bios( coz my cmos battery is damaged I had to put date and time and select "others" as my boot mode. There was another one bootmode called "windows 10 64-bit" that doesn't used to work but I remember I had installed my new windows in windows 10 64-bit mode and had to format my drives.)so yesterday when I went into my bios and selected "others" with uefi I went to repair mode and had startup error and when booting in from legacy I had the message "select or insert a bootable media and press a key" it was something like that. But after the installation I didn't had to go to my bios to select boot mode because it was alr selected to "windows 10 64-bit" mode. So the windows in my others is my old windows? Because If I reset it from repair mode to fix startup error will it be my old windows? Also will my data be in there, cuz I had formatted my drive while re-installing coz its a necessary step. So is it my old windows cuz I rlly rlly want it back. Booting from legacy says to put a bootable media and uefi takes me to repair screen as if there is windows there.
My 64bit windows is in other mode so yh if it is my old windows I'll reset from there and will I get my data too? And also if u have 2 windows in a PC and u format a drive from one windows does the storage of the other windows wipe out too.
Regards.
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2021-06-08T07:42:18+00:00 can I use another PC to do that or I will have to use mine?
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Sumit 44,436 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator2021-06-08T07:30:46+00:00 Are you sure if the USB you have is made in MBR partition scheme? Rufus gives a guarantee of that.
If you make a new media using the media creation tool, it would make the media according to the current Installation, which is UEFI in your case without asking you.
You need to disable the UEFI boot mode, reinstall Windows using USB in legacy BIOS mode.
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Anonymous
2021-06-08T07:04:19+00:00 Do I really have to use Rufus? Can't I just go in legacy mode and select USB as my boot option and hit enter? And also will disabling uefi boot mode delete the uefi boot option for my boot mode?, if so can u plz guide me how to do it in Acer one 14 z422 bios? Bcoz I don't know how to do everything in bios and I might mess up something .
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Sumit 44,436 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2021-06-08T06:54:57+00:00 Thanks, Ruchi, now I understand a bit :)
If you Install 32-bit now, you would be able to use 3.21GB of RAM out of 4GB, as this is a design limitation. For 4 GB, we recommend 64 bit though.
If you still want to switch to 32-bit, use Rufus to create an Installation media, and in that, select MBR partition scheme for UEFI/BIOS. https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2376-create-bootable-usb-flash-drive-install-windows-10-a.html
In the BIOS menu, enable Legacy boot, disable UEFI, boot from the installation media, and install Windows. Please note that if currently the hard drive is configured as GPT, you need to format it. To check if the drive is configured as GPT or MBR, you can find it in the disk management>Right-click the drive>Properties.