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Lost my windows 10 upgrade

paleryder33852
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Hi! Seems my Windows reverted back to Windows 7 after I upgraded my graphics card. I went from a Gigabyte 6850HD to a Sapphire Nitro+ rx580 8gb. Installing the new driver didn't get Windows 10  back. I've never seen or heard of this happening. Any thoughts/help would be appreciated.

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No...I never went to the bios. As soon as I started the computer up after putting in the new graphics card it booted into Windows 7. Seems there is a way that win 10 would boot as win 7. Everything related to win 10 seems to be gone. It's like I was transported back in time. All old desktop icons, installed programs, even google bookmarks.

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It is impossible after this amount of time for windows 10 to just up and revert back to the previous version of windows that was installed because all the files that were moved to be replaced by the windows 10 variants would have long been deleted either by the system a few months after the upgrade or through the first major feature update.

 

Has anyone else had access to your PC during the time before the upgrade and before you swapped the graphics card as the only way I can consider this happening is by someone taking an image of the drive back when it had windows 7 installed and restored it before you did the GPU upgrade.

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4 minutes ago, paleryder33852 said:

No one. Is there anyway something from the old graphics card was connected? It was the graphics card I used...even as of yesterday.

I am willing to bet you knock your SATA cable of your main drive, and it is therefore booting Windows 7 which, despite what you think, is installed on another drive.

That or you swamp SATA cables, and now it boots on your, now, main drive (which was secondary before). Probably swamp SATA-0 cable with SATA-1 (or SATA-1 with SATA-2, which ever is the starting number)

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All were where they should be but made sure they were seated. Something made a difference since it booted up to the blue window logo instead of the 4 color flag. However, now it cycles it's self between blue screens of ailment and self fixing...says it will take an hour. Time will tell. The new graphics card, while not touching the sata ends, does cover them over.

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9 hours ago, paleryder33852 said:

All were where they should be but made sure they were seated. Something made a difference since it booted up to the blue window logo instead of the 4 color flag. However, now it cycles it's self between blue screens of ailment and self fixing...says it will take an hour. Time will tell. The new graphics card, while not touching the sata ends, does cover them over.

Try to access Windows troubleshooting menu and see what bootmanager says. Like @GoodBytes said, its fairly obvious that you have sort of working Win7 as "dual boot". There are some good and some bad. Good thing is that Win10 is still there, you'd need to format that partition to get rid of it. Bad is that if bootmgr resides on HDD with Win7, getting rid or Win7 or doing anything like that will mess things really badly. I had to reinstall Win10 after nothing else worked in similar situation.

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