Trouble when updating acer aspire switch 10 to windows 10 64 bit.

Hi, if anyone can help me, for the last couple of days I have been tried everything to get my computer to boot to my usb. My aspire switch 10 has a 64x processor, but a 32x version of windows 10, I installed it a couple of years back.
I have tried-
1. Disabling Secure boot.
2. Formatting my USB with Rufus.
3.Plugging in my USB into the side of the screen, not the keyboard. (its a two in one laptop)
4. I have gone into settings/update and security/recovery/advanced startup and boot from usb from there. It ends up saying that this pc has to bootable option.
5. I have tried hitting f12 on startup to get into boot menu, but it only says that I can boot from windows.
6. I've tried another USB, didn't work.
7. I've tried to install 8.1 instead of 10.
8. I decided to try to boot from 8.1 32 bit.
9. I have turned off and on like every option under f2 when I boot up, including changing the boot order into every combination, but it keeps sending me to the regular windows.
This is a pain in my *****, but if anyone can help me it would be much appreciated. Thanks.

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MaClane

Good afternoon haavit !

Is your Bios in UEFi mode?
If so, your OS should be x64 and not x32.

In any way, from a read here:

https://superuser.com/questions/878637/how-to-boot-acer-aspire-switch-10-from-external-media

haavit

I can see it in the boot menu now, however when I boot from it, windows just opens normally. I tried moving the boot order for the .efi to boot first but same outcome. And yes I have UEFI, I didn't mention that. I installed a 32x version of windows 10 on my laptop a few years ago, I don't remember why though.

haavit

Thanks again.

MaClane

The OS installation in 32-bit UEFi mode depends on the Bios proprietary support.
Some have compatibility mode, but it is a feature that has already passed.

billsey

IIRC there were several people going through this a while ago and it was decided that the BIOS would only allow booting from a 32bit image. There no performance gain in trying to run it in 64bit mode because there's only the 2GB of memory.

DanFuerth

It is very easy to install windows 8 32 bit and Windows 10 32 bit on this unit. However this unit uses UEFI bios which is locked at 2 go of ram so Windows 8 or 10 64 bit will refuse to install on this unit. If you try to run the installer it will fail even inside windows 10.
The reason is that the UEFI of the Acer Switch 10 requires the use of the Bootia32.EFI or it will refuse to boot from USB flash drive or USB CD-ROM so only Windows 8 32 bit had the proper EFI folder with the Bootia32.efi file.
The USB boot flash drive must have this signed bootia32.efi file or it won’t boot after disabling secure boot ( after setting supervisor password) . Enabling the F12 boot menu is useless as the bootia32.efi is required so that the UEFI bios can finally boot the signed Microsoft bootia32.efi file.
Windows 10 32 bit should NEVER be installed over Windows 8 on this unit because it uses more power and higher CPU MHz while idling. I am uploading a tutorial video to YouTube so everyone can see how this all works.

DanFuerth

Here is the YouTube Tutorial for installing Windows 8.1 using an OTG USB cable and Flash drive on top of Windows 10 on the Acer Switch 10 2gb ram . This requires some steps but it is 100% effective. Windows 10 32 bit is not as fast as Windows 8 1 on the Acer switch 10, in fact Windows 10 uses 200 MHz more at idle. Adding in the spyware nonsense with your local searches being exposed online, time to owdgo back to Windows 8.1 now.
Link

https://youtu.be/avHWOZ32BnA

Linki

Hi, maybe somebody worked it out

Isn't it possible to set the BIOS in order to let the 64bit Win10 be installed? I looked for the drivers, and there are 64bit options here on acer for this computer, and the processor has a 64bit architecture, so phisicaly it would be possible? But is it really possible?