Hey guys,
I hope this is in the right section, but might as well get into it (pictures too!). So last night I was out with some friends and left my computer on, only to come home to my computer (Windows 7) fully updated to Windows 10. Naturally I was kinda like "ehhh, might as well test it out" type thing, but after playing around with it for about 15 minutes I didn't like the interface and wanted my old Windows 7 back. So I followed the instructions on Windows 10 by going to settings and clicking recovery or something to go back to Windows 7. It brings up the prompt and what not and gets into by saying I need to restart my computer etc. As it starts up, this screen pops up:
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From this I just suspected I would do the "Start Windows Normally" option, but it doesn't work at all. Clicking it just brings up some blue screen, and then it takes me right back to black screen with "Start Windows Normally" and "Launch Startup Repair". Here is the blue screen:
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With not much else left, I tried the "Launch Startup Repair" option and let it run its course. Basically at the end of it nothing happens as it cannot fix it and suggests I do a system restore. The problem is all my system restore points do not come up for some reason (I suspect the update to 10 messed it up upon switching back), and I unfortunately do not have my drive backed up or anything. I should mention I'm not the best with PCs, but at this point I was super worried and panicked I lost all my data or something. I decided to call Microsoft for some help, and the short version is 3 hours later (sadly) the technician suggests I wipe my computer and do a clean install. It is important to mention we went into Safe Mode and it boots up with all my files there, but I really don't want to copy everything and do the fresh start as it will take a long time/is very annoying. So I am hoping someone here has a better solution that will be able to fix it.
From my understanding something with the startup isn't right, and I know you can access that stuff using F2 or F12 or something, so I want to know if someone here may have an idea of how to get it to boot up normally and avoid the long daunting alternative of a clean reset. I also took pictures of the report from windows about the system repair if that is of any use:
Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet
I posted them all there (not in the right order sorry). But basically in short I updated to Windows 10, didn't like it and reverted to 7 which is now unable to boot up at all in normal mode. Thus if anyone has anymore information or insight in how to fix it without having to remove everything and reinstall windows, I would greatly appreciate it!
Thanks guys, and keep up the good work!
I hope this is in the right section, but might as well get into it (pictures too!). So last night I was out with some friends and left my computer on, only to come home to my computer (Windows 7) fully updated to Windows 10. Naturally I was kinda like "ehhh, might as well test it out" type thing, but after playing around with it for about 15 minutes I didn't like the interface and wanted my old Windows 7 back. So I followed the instructions on Windows 10 by going to settings and clicking recovery or something to go back to Windows 7. It brings up the prompt and what not and gets into by saying I need to restart my computer etc. As it starts up, this screen pops up:
From this I just suspected I would do the "Start Windows Normally" option, but it doesn't work at all. Clicking it just brings up some blue screen, and then it takes me right back to black screen with "Start Windows Normally" and "Launch Startup Repair". Here is the blue screen:
With not much else left, I tried the "Launch Startup Repair" option and let it run its course. Basically at the end of it nothing happens as it cannot fix it and suggests I do a system restore. The problem is all my system restore points do not come up for some reason (I suspect the update to 10 messed it up upon switching back), and I unfortunately do not have my drive backed up or anything. I should mention I'm not the best with PCs, but at this point I was super worried and panicked I lost all my data or something. I decided to call Microsoft for some help, and the short version is 3 hours later (sadly) the technician suggests I wipe my computer and do a clean install. It is important to mention we went into Safe Mode and it boots up with all my files there, but I really don't want to copy everything and do the fresh start as it will take a long time/is very annoying. So I am hoping someone here has a better solution that will be able to fix it.
From my understanding something with the startup isn't right, and I know you can access that stuff using F2 or F12 or something, so I want to know if someone here may have an idea of how to get it to boot up normally and avoid the long daunting alternative of a clean reset. I also took pictures of the report from windows about the system repair if that is of any use:
Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet
I posted them all there (not in the right order sorry). But basically in short I updated to Windows 10, didn't like it and reverted to 7 which is now unable to boot up at all in normal mode. Thus if anyone has anymore information or insight in how to fix it without having to remove everything and reinstall windows, I would greatly appreciate it!
Thanks guys, and keep up the good work!
