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Windows 10... Woops

Rich Armstrong
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Hi guys, so i must admit i didnt really think about it when i installed windows 10, i upgraded my windows 8.1 pro to win 10. And id now quiteee like to go back, is there any way of doing this?

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format your drive and reinstall windows 8 from an ISO or disk

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format your drive and reinstall windows 8 from an ISO or disk

Wouldnt formatting mean i lose everything? I have a lot of stuff that i dont really want lose

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Thats what im hoping for dude

 

Nope im sorry. If you upgraded from Windows 8.1 > Windows 10 then you are stuck with 10. You cannot downgrade back again :(

Create a new partition on your drive to store all your personal info and then installing Windows 8.1 on the OTHER partition... Once in Windows 8.1 remove all your stuff from the backup partition you made beforehand and then delete it.

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Best course of action is to transfer all files you'd like to keep to an external hard drive then format your main PC drive and reinstall Windows 8.1 then transfer your files back from the external drive after the install has completed. You could do as @Altecice suggested but putting the files to a different physical drive that isn't connected to the PC would just be safer. You wouldn't want something to accidentally happen to that other partition on the drive and lose your files.

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Wasnt there a way to uninstall the update ?

No there isn't. It specifically says in the download page that YOU CANNOT undo this install, not even with repair disk or system image.

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Wouldnt formatting mean i lose everything? I have a lot of stuff that i dont really want lose

Yes, unless you have a separate drive to install windows 8 on, then plug in the drive with windows 10, boot into windows 8, and take your files from the 10 drive to the 8 drive through windows explorer.

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This is what you need to do. Transfer everything you need to keep to an external hard drive like a WD My Book or My Passport. If you dont have one, go buy one. Then re-install windows, and during the installer, click custom and delete all of the partitions, then select the unacollated space to install windows 8 on.

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Sounds like im going to have to put up with the bugs for a fair while then because i cant afford any kind of back up large enough for my backup

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