Windows 10: Went to bed with Windows 10, Woke up with Windows 7

Discus and support Went to bed with Windows 10, Woke up with Windows 7 in Windows 10 Support to solve the problem; About a week ago I installed the free windows 10 upgrade on one of my home PC's, everything went good and installed perfectly. I woke up this morning... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Support' started by Redfire, Oct 14, 2015.

  1. REDFIRE
    Redfire Win User

    Went to bed with Windows 10, Woke up with Windows 7


    About a week ago I installed the free windows 10 upgrade on one of my home PC's, everything went good and installed perfectly. I woke up this morning and the computer had reverted back to Windows 7 by it's self sometime during the night. It reverted back to a very old version I had installed, now it has the windows 7600 build not genuine version in the lower right hand corner. All of my documents and programs are gone.... I checked to see if I could restore to an earlier version and the only one listed was from 5:17 am where it had updated this morning.

    Is there any way to change this back to 10 without a complete new install?

    Anyone else had this problem?

    Thanks,

    Chris

    :)
     
    Redfire, Oct 14, 2015
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  2. ZOLTAK1980
    Zoltak1980 Win User

    Black screen

    I started the process of installing Windows 10 late or early this morning then went to bed, I woke up and all I get is a black screen, anyone know what to do?
     
    Zoltak1980, Oct 14, 2015
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  3. CODYXS
    CodyXS Win User
    Cortana error code 8004100b support needed

    This was exactly the case with mine. Went to bed woke up and she worked again
     
    CodyXS, Oct 14, 2015
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  4. NAVYLCDR
    NavyLCDR New Member

    Went to bed with Windows 10, Woke up with Windows 7

    Do you have more than 1 operating system installed on different partitions/hard drives?
     
    NavyLCDR, Oct 14, 2015
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  5. REDFIRE
    Redfire Win User
    I do have multiple drives in the computer, it's possible that one of them had a prior windows install. I had not even thought of that possibility; I will unhook those drives and see what happens.

    Thanks for your input.
     
    Redfire, Oct 14, 2015
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  6. NAVYLCDR
    NavyLCDR New Member
    Sounds like something caused the boot order for the hard drives to change in bios, then.

    If you install and make a Macrium Reflect Free rescue disc/USB and boot the computer from that, there is an option under the Restore menu to fix startup problems. The first step of that utility will sniff out all installed operating systems (well, Windows at least, not sure about Linux). I'm sure there are probably other programs, even built in command-line programs in Windows, that will do the same thing, but Macrium Reflect Free is the way that I know and I have my rescue USB already made, so that is what I know how to use.
     
    NavyLCDR, Oct 14, 2015
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  7. REDFIRE
    Redfire Win User
    Thanks for the advice, I will try that tonight when I get home.
     
    Redfire, Oct 14, 2015
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  8. REDFIRE
    Redfire Win User

    Went to bed with Windows 10, Woke up with Windows 7

    This was the issue, I went into the bios and changed the boot order back to the correct drive. Thanks for your help.
     
    Redfire, Oct 14, 2015
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  9. NAVYLCDR
    NavyLCDR New Member
    No problem, glad to be of help and it was a simple fix!
     
    NavyLCDR, Apr 4, 2018
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