Once you have your backup, it’s time to perform the actual downgrade. Alternatively, you can also use any 3rd party backup product that can perform a full system image backup, although that would only allow you to restore files, not programs. We recommend using the Migration Kit Pro, which allows to easily back up, and most importantly easily restore programs, settings and files after the downgrade (even though it will be a different Windows version). After the downgrade, your programs and data will be gone, and you will need to restore them to get back to normal. The first step in a major install like this is to back up everything you’ve got. If you are unhappy with Windows 10, and prefer to get back to Windows 7 or Windows 8, this tutorial will help you do that, and most importantly – help you preserve all your stuff in the process, including your programs, profile, settings, documents, pictures, music, movies, favorites, wallpaper and everything else. In this article, we will see how to perform a Windows 10 downgrade, without losing your stuff – even if more than 30 days have passed after the original upgrade. So I either need to make the Windows 7 tool see the Vista recovery partition, or I need the boot loader (?) to let me select Vista earlier in the process.How to downgrade Windows 10 and get back to Windows 7 or Windows 8 – without losing your programs and files As I said, from there I click the third option, and it fails to find the image, which I guess makes sense if it's only looking for a Windows 7 recovery. I hit Enter on the first option, I end up at the screen in the first screen shot. I hit Escape, and then I get this screen, except without Ubuntu listed, and without the auto-countdown thing:
After hitting F10, I get this screen, except it's partition 2, and I don't have the IN/MINT bit: How can I get back to my factory settings?ĮDIT: I did see this question, but neither of the answers apply to my situation.įrom what I can tell, I never get the option to boot the Vista recovery partition.Did the Windows 7 upgrade process format my Vista system recovery partition?! Both of the 'unlettered' partitions are 100% empty.Why is the first partition shaded? Does that mean anything?.
One final note, if I launch diskmgmt.msc, these are the partitions: I have checked and I don't have a windows.old that I can recover from either. However, when I click the third option (for me I think it says 'Windows Image Recovery' or something like that) it tells me that it can't find any images to recover from :( Not sure what it's called, but I can successfully get into this recovery thingy: I have since upgraded to Windows 7, but I now need to get back to my original installation. It has a recovery partition that I have used successfully in the past to format everything and reinstall Windows to factory settings. I bought my Acer laptop 4 years ago with Vista Home Premium x86.
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