Solved Win 10 is not giving me the option to go back to 8.1 even though it has 1 week

[BirdDad]

even though it has been only 1 week since I installed it on a laptop
Does anyone know a way to go back short of reinstalling everything?

 

[Underclocked]

Have you ran Disk Cleanup and deleted system files?

 

[BirdDad]

no
there is a $sys reset and a $rt windows folder but no showing of the third one mentioned in webpages that I googled

 

[Underclocked]

No windows.old folder?

 

[BirdDad]

none

 

[Underclocked]

Your only choices then are stick to 10 or clean reload 8.1. If you've a storage partition, you can save your data, pics, docs, etc. there.

 

[postmortemIA]

when you did upgrade, did you select the option 'keep my files and programs" ?

 

[Puffnstuff]

Did you have disk clean up set to run on a schedule?

 

[BirdDad]

no schedule and I chose the option to keep my files when W10 was installed because I knew that I would be uninstalling it. I only installed it for the serial number to clean install it later off an update disc that I burned.

 

[BirdDad]

wait there is a windows.old folder
how do I make it go back? in ewcovery it is only giving me advanced/ restart now
I've searched google and it all assumes that there is an option to go back in recovery

 

[Underclocked]

Do you also have the $windows.~bt folder?

"Settings > Update & security > Recovery. This will keep your personal files, but it'll remove apps and drivers installed after the upgrade, as well as any changes you made to settings.

To go back, you'll need to:

Keep everything in the windows.old and $windows.~bt folders after the upgrade.

Remove any user accounts you added after the upgrade.

Know the password you used to sign in to Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 (if you used one)."

 

[BirdDad]

I'm trying a system restore

 

[BirdDad]

Do you also have the $windows.~bt folder?

"Settings > Update & security > Recovery. This will keep your personal files, but it'll remove apps and drivers installed after the upgrade, as well as any changes you made to settings.

To go back, you'll need to:

Keep everything in the windows.old and $windows.~bt folders after the upgrade.

Remove any user accounts you added after the upgrade.

Know the password you used to sign in to Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 (if you used one)."

there is no option to go back under Settings > Update & security > Recovery

 

[BirdDad]

I tryed system restore, while it did not restore 8.1 it did give me the option to go back which I am trying now, wish me luck!

 

[BirdDad]

Success!

 

[Underclocked]

Cool.