Having issues installing bios drivers with usb

[gyogyomega]

Hello, I recently upgraded literally everything in my computer except for my old hard drives (I wanted to keep the memory on them). I also didn't want to reinstall Windows 10, so I only deleted the drivers on my hard drives, and moved them into my new computer.

However, my new computer lacks an optical disk drive, so it cannot read the installation disk that came with my motherboard. I have a laptop with a disk drive and a usb flash drive that is in FAT32 format, but I have no idea on how to transfer the contents of the disk onto the drive. All the guides I find on the internet are about updating the bios, not using the installation disk.


If I have to, I am willing to just write over my old hard drives and reinstall windows, but I don't know how to do that either. If I do have to reinstall windows, if possible how would I preserve my old copy of it? I don't have the old disk, would I have to pay for a new copy of windows 10?

Any help would be appreciated!


My specs:

ASRock Z97 Killer motherboard
16 gb (2 sticks of 8) RAM
GTX 970
i5 4690k CPU
one chassis fan, CPU fan
700W power supply

 

[USAFRet]

You need to do a whole reinstall of your OS.
How you get there, depends.

 

[gyogyomega]

You need to do a whole reinstall of your OS.
How you get there, depends.

So would I install my bios CD with a usb flash drive first, then after installing the motherboard drivers, I would somehow get windows 10 on my usb and install it?

 

[USAFRet]

You need to do a whole reinstall of your OS.
How you get there, depends.

So would I install my bios CD with a usb flash drive first, then after installing the motherboard drivers, I would somehow get windows 10 on my usb and install it?

No, you need to install the OS first.
Then the specific drivers for your hardware.

 

[gyogyomega]

You need to do a whole reinstall of your OS.
How you get there, depends.

So would I install my bios CD with a usb flash drive first, then after installing the motherboard drivers, I would somehow get windows 10 on my usb and install it?

No, you need to install the OS first.
Then the specific drivers for your hardware.

I got windows 10 working and am on my home screen. Do I need to install the stuff on the disc for my motherboard, or am I fine? I don't have any drivers for my internet connection though, and I don't know where to find them

 

[USAFRet]

You need to do a whole reinstall of your OS.
How you get there, depends.

So would I install my bios CD with a usb flash drive first, then after installing the motherboard drivers, I would somehow get windows 10 on my usb and install it?

No, you need to install the OS first.
Then the specific drivers for your hardware.

I got windows 10 working and am on my home screen. Do I need to install the stuff on the disc for my motherboard, or am I fine? I don't have any drivers for my internet connection though, and I don't know where to find them

If you have it installed, and you are online....you are pretty much OK.
Find the driver for your GPU and other stuff.