Upgrade mac mini to windows 8

Hi,
I am running windows 7 32bit on my 2010 mac mini, and wish to upgrade to windows 8.  So 2 questions:
1.  I do NOT have OSX installed anywhere on this machine, so how can I get the latest bootcamp drivers for my machine?  Running bootcamp assistant is not an option, unless running it from my macbook air (2010) somehow would work.
2.  Is there any way to upgrade from win 7 32bit to win 8 64bit?  Or do I have to do a fresh install?
Thanks!

How is whether or not win8 is 'supported' relevant?  I could be upgrading from winXP to Win7, the problem is the same. I can edit my question and remove 'win8' from it if this troubles you that win98 is not supported.  But it still doesnt change the question.  And I run win8 on two other macs.  It may be unsupported but it works great.
I changed the drive out on this mini a long time ago, and just installed win7 directly.  So no OSX (as I said).  At that time, I was able to download bootcamp drivers from Apple directly- now it seems you need bootcamp assistant to get the latest drivers.
Will Command + R allow me to download the bootcamp drivers (for win7 for example) for my hardware?  As I understand it that will allow me to use the OSX recovery tools- but as I said, I dont have OSX on this machine.
So this response doesnt really help me with my question.

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