Windows 10: PC downgraded to Windows 10 during system recovery. Can I get Windows 11 back?

My laptop crashed and I had to do a system recovery in order to boot it again.I purchased this laptop from the store with Windows 11 which I need for work, but after the system recovery the pc is running on Windows 10 which I have never had on this device.I am in the mid of doing a factory reset because I have done it before when I ran into another issue, and it reinstalled Windows 11 fine, so if this works I will update this thread, however I am pre-emptively posting this just in case this does nor work.

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Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

windows 11 downgrade

How to: Uninstall Windows 11 - Your Windows Guide

To uninstall Windows 11 update and go back to Windows 10, see the steps below:

1. Uninstall Windows 11 from Settings>System>Recovery>Go back to the previous version of Windows.
   
2. Boot to the Windows Recovery enviornment, and select Uninstall latest feature update.
   

 

Download Windows 10 TH/RS

For the convenience of not having to use the installation media for startup repairs. But you should be able to use your installation media to do whatever the recovery partition does(including startup repairs). AFAIK. I could be wrong about that though.

I'm not sure if I follow you there. But if you clean install Windows 10 there will be at least 3 partitions.

• (EFI System Partition)
• (Primary Partition)
• (Recovery/OEM Partition)

If you install from an OEM installation media there might(should?) be 4 partitions. Since there might(should?) be a Recovery partition and an OEM partition.




Back on topic...

Download May 8 CU KB4103721 x64 (326.5MB)

Brings system to 17134.48

List of improvements and fixes found here.