Windows 10: windows 10 says sorry but you cant go back win 7 its only been 6 days

comeon, they promised if i did not like it i could go back. they lied;

what can i do. windows.old is still there. i am kinda angry;.

:)

 

Sorry but you can't go back

If it says files are missing then your only option if you want to revert is to re-install the previous OS from dvd. You may simply be better off trying to fix the win 10 issues

 

Sorry but you can't go back

So I installed windows 10 a few weeks (definatley not amonth) and was unsatisfied with it so decided to go back to my windows 8.1 but it keeps getting the message We're sorry but you cant go back, the required files has been deleted. I did not use any disk
clean up tools or erase anything at all and it keeps getting me this so I decided to face it and stay then finally decided to wrote to this community. My computer is HP 15AC048 CA. I even double check and knew that windows.old file were required and it's still
there

I actually tried win10 a day then rolled back and then after a week decided to get to win10 again. Maybe this could be a problem?

 

Hi,
Possibly this is still available
A utility for fast, free, and simple Windows 10 uninstallation

 

downloading now. i also an winows recoery drive. claimed 'we ran into a problem and you cant go back'

 

Download Windows 10 Rollback Utility - MajorGeeks

I see no windows 7 in the list that appears when running that program
just win 10 and a fat drive.

 

Oh I WILL have win 7 again on that PC, I have a copy on another PC that I can use. Just a pain, MS you dont want me to go back, but I will, you can not stop me.

only 6 days and MS screws me over with a promise that turns out to be a lie.
First it said 30 days during the upgrade, promised if I did not like could revrt, then I find it is really only 10 days. Now after 6 days they say sorry...you can not go back, HAHAHA!

 

Hanlon's razor - Wikipedia

Just out of curiosity, how big is windows.old? 20GB wouldn't be unusually large.

 

Why didn't you create an image of W7 with Macrium Reflect before you installed W10 ?

 

If you go from 7 to 10 via free upgrade, you do get 30 days to roll back. After that though, if you upgrade from one windows 10 main build to another, like from 1703 to 1709, you only get 7 days to go back to the previous build. I do believe going from one build to another means no going back to that original OS, no going back to Windows 7 etc.

Where are you seeing said message, and what method are you using to try and go back to Windows 7? When did you do the free upgrade from 7, and have you upgraded Windows 10 to a new build after that?

 

because I was stupid and trusted MS that I could go back just like they had said.

 

So went from 30 to 10 days and now it is 7 days, what a laugh.
I tried to use settings, go back to prior os. It said win7 cant go back.
Then I tried recovery drive usb for win10, troubleshoot, go back.

These MS guys obviously desperately do not want you to go back, dont trust them if they say you can go back.

 

I have given up on going back, likely will reinstall win7 entirely somehow.

The whole problem is there is no suitable usable good WMC replacement. I have tried quite a few.

I would probably buy a good one if anyone knows of one that is good. So many of them are junk.

I though I had found one with sichbopvr, but it has serious program guide glitches, like it is supposed to update the program guide hourly, but never does, it only updates if you watch the channel, and not always then either, so you fdont have a clue what is on, and trying to record is very difficult to setup.

 

I said 7 but maybe its now 10, it was shortened from the original 30 days. As near as I can remember I have never ever rolled back, never had the need to do it. I have reinstalled Windows 8 after updating to 10. I just did a clean install of Windows 8.

Just because you can't roll back, doesn't mean everybody can't roll back. *Wink Don't make assumptions based of a single case scenario. Maybe your Windows.old is corrupted etc.

 

Hi,
Bummer the utility did not work *Sad
If possible you should make a system image of win-10 before reinstalling 7 just incase you change your mind later on.
Review this for updating 7 on post #2 it still works I just used it about 45 days ago *Smile
Windows Update will not update and I've tried multiple fixes Solved - Windows 7 Help Forums

Avoiding win-10 again well that is as easy as avoiding the updates that offer the win-10 upgrade.
Review post #3 here
Fresh install what updates to avoid - Windows 7 Help Forums

There is also this
Disable Upgrade to Windows 10 Update in Windows 7 or 8.1 Windows Update Activation Tutorials