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Old March 9th, 2021, 11:23 PM
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Restoring from Windows.old folder

An old guy ended up reinstalling Windows 8 by mistake from a disk after he was using Windows 10 for a while

Now he can't find his files, but there is a folder called Windows.old which seems to have his stuff

How do I get Windows 8 to reinstall the W10 from that folder ?

Recovery ??

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Old March 10th, 2021, 06:30 AM
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Open Start > Settings > Update & security > Recovery > under Go back to my previous version of Windows 10, click Get started.
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Old March 10th, 2021, 09:17 AM
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Ah - Wins 8 is installed with probably Win10 on the .old folder

Dont think Wins 8 has a recovery option does it ??
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Old March 10th, 2021, 12:06 PM
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https://forums.techguy.org/threads/r...s-old.1259459/
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