Downgrade from Windows 10 to 8

[gianniscfa]

Hey I have Windows 10 pro 64bit , I came from Windows 8 64 bit pro, with Microsoft's upgrade program 1 month ago, how to downgrade from 10 to 8 without losing my data ? I don't care about settings, also I care only for my data. Thanks

 

[Rocky Bennett]

Before you attempt to restore to a previous version of Windows it is very important to back up your data. That is the first thing to do.
https://www.howtogeek.com/220723/how-to-uninstall-windows-10-and-downgrade-to-windows-7-or-8.1/

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

Back up your data to another hard drive or to optical discs before reverting to Windows 8.

If your data is important you should always keep it backed up anyway instead of waiting until you are going to change the OS or whatever. All drives fail eventually so you need to be prepared for that all the time.

 

[abaday789]

copy your files to an external drive

roll back to win 8 and load the files back onto the computer

 

[Rocky Bennett]

Back up your data to another hard drive or to optical discs before reverting to Windows 8.

If your data is important you should always keep it backed up anyway instead of waiting until you are going to change the OS or whatever. All drives fail eventually so you need to be prepared for that all the time.

Exactly. You should ALWAYS have multiple copies of your data stored in various different physical locations.

ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS back up your data.

 

[helpstar]

why you wanna downgrade?

 

[Rocky Bennett]

why you wanna downgrade?

Good question.

 

[Rocky Bennett]

I'm going to be totally honest and say that right now I only have 4 copies of my data.

1. Hard drives connected to my PC
2. Hard drive in a closet in the front room
3. Hard drive at my youngest daughter's house
4. Hard drive at my oldest daughter's house

I have been thinking about putting a copy of my data in the cloud but I just don't know how much it would cost to maintain approx. 4 terabytes of ata at a reliable cloud server. I need to do more homework on that.

 

[gianniscfa]

How to roll back to Windows 8? I think that if someone upgrade from windows 8 to Windows 10, u can downgrade from 10 to 8 only in 10 days.othrwise u must do a format, is this real?

 

[BringerOfTea]

I am also intrigued as to why someone would revert back to windows 8... which I felt was a lesser version than even windows 7.

 

[helpstar]

If the Windows.old folder was renamed, it can be changed back even after that time. The 30 day trial where you could easily downgrade via an app is also not active, if windows 10 was bought as retail version.

backup all your important data, be sure to write down your windows licence key before doing anything:
https://www.lifewire.com/licensecrawler-review-2625097

to downgrade (if the normal way was unsuccessful) you can use:
https://neosmart.net/Win10Rollback/

 

[gianniscfa]

Done, I format my PC. And I installed the windows 8. Thanks all of you