Replacing win8.1 with win10 but can`t boot from usb

bulsoldier

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Hello to everyone ! I have the following issue that i can`t really find a way to resolve so i must ask for some assistance.

I had a win8.1 on my acer laptop ( aspire e15) for about a year with no issues (apart from some old games not running well) and I decided to upgrade to a windows 10. I rearranged the boot order so it will boot from an usb drive on which I placed the windows 10 iso the correct way and restarted the laptop and booted from it. Anyway, instead of starting the win10 installation process I am greeted with an orange screen with white vertical stripes and I can`t really do anything to get past it. I read around that this has something to do with bit locker and so on but I have never set up this on my laptop. I have no idea how can I disable it as all the fields in the options are pretty much greyed out.

Interestingly enough, if I choose to reinstall win 8.1 (from the desktop menu that says remove all my info and reinstall) I can do it with a bootable flash drive with win8.1 on it.

Anyway , does anyone else know how can I fix this issue and install windows10 ? Or at the very least how can I completely format the hdd and install windows 10 ?
 
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Do you have a win 10 licence?

If not, you can still use the win 8.1 licence and do an inplace upgrade instead of booting off the USB
put USB in drive, open file explorer, choose setup.exe on the USB
once loaded, choose upgrade this PC and it will install win 10 ontop of win 8.1

then if you still having these problems, do a reset of win 10 by going to settings/update & security/recovery and choose reset this PC. Choose which ever choice (just not rollback to win 8.1) and PC will restart and reinstall win 10 and force PC to get all new drivers.

Alternate is run dban on hdd and wipe it before installing win 10 - this won't work on an ssd: https://dban.org/

Colif

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Do you have a win 10 licence?

If not, you can still use the win 8.1 licence and do an inplace upgrade instead of booting off the USB
put USB in drive, open file explorer, choose setup.exe on the USB
once loaded, choose upgrade this PC and it will install win 10 ontop of win 8.1

then if you still having these problems, do a reset of win 10 by going to settings/update & security/recovery and choose reset this PC. Choose which ever choice (just not rollback to win 8.1) and PC will restart and reinstall win 10 and force PC to get all new drivers.

Alternate is run dban on hdd and wipe it before installing win 10 - this won't work on an ssd: https://dban.org/
 
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