My PC Reverted back to Windows 8 on July 30th?

[andy_wh2000]

I don't know what the hell happened. My wife hadn't used our PC in a couple days but turned it on this morning to find that it has returned to Windows 8 after being on Windows 10 for nearly a year. I have no idea why this happened. I'm pretty sure that they wouldn't just revert it back after offering for free for the first year. I do use Crashplan, but don't want to use that unless that's my last resort. Any ideas why this happened and if there is a fix?

 

[Rocky Bennett]

You might want to change the name of this thread title because the thread title says that your PC reverted "BACK TO WINDOWS 10" on July 30th.

 

[andy_wh2000]

You might want to change the name of this thread title because the thread title says that your PC reverted "BACK TO WINDOWS 10" on July 30th.

thanks. I don't know why I did that.

 

[USAFRet]

I don't know what the hell happened. My wife hadn't used our PC in a couple days but turned it on this morning to find that it has returned to Windows 8 after being on Windows 10 for nearly a year. I have no idea why this happened. I'm pretty sure that they wouldn't just revert it back after offering for free for the first year. I do use Crashplan, but don't want to use that unless that's my last resort. Any ideas why this happened and if there is a fix?

Just to verify...

It was originally Win 8?
You Upgraded to Win 10 last year?
And now it somehow went back to Win 8?

 

[andy_wh2000]

I don't know what the hell happened. My wife hadn't used our PC in a couple days but turned it on this morning to find that it has returned to Windows 8 after being on Windows 10 for nearly a year. I have no idea why this happened. I'm pretty sure that they wouldn't just revert it back after offering for free for the first year. I do use Crashplan, but don't want to use that unless that's my last resort. Any ideas why this happened and if there is a fix?

Just to verify...

It was originally Win 8?
You Upgraded to Win 10 last year?
And now it somehow went back to Win 8?

Yes. I upgraded last year the second I got the prompt to do so. Has been working great and getting the normal updates the whole time. I doubt it was a system restore. Is there a way to look at a log to see if it was? Also I can't seem to find my backups on crashplan. I really hope my wife didn't deactivate it.

 

[USAFRet]

I don't know what the hell happened. My wife hadn't used our PC in a couple days but turned it on this morning to find that it has returned to Windows 8 after being on Windows 10 for nearly a year. I have no idea why this happened. I'm pretty sure that they wouldn't just revert it back after offering for free for the first year. I do use Crashplan, but don't want to use that unless that's my last resort. Any ideas why this happened and if there is a fix?

Just to verify...

It was originally Win 8?
You Upgraded to Win 10 last year?
And now it somehow went back to Win 8?

Yes. I upgraded last year the second I got the prompt to do so. Has been working great and getting the normal updates the whole time. I doubt it was a system restore. Is there a way to look at a log to see if it was? Also I can't seem to find my backups on crashplan. I really hope my wife didn't deactivate it.

I can't visualize how this happened, without a LOT of specific clicks saying "Yes I want to do this"
Is everything else still in the same place it was? Same applications and files?

 

[andy_wh2000]

Everything is still in place as far as I can tell. Games that I know were installed after I upgraded are still there. My wife's Lightroom presetsare still there. Etc. I know my way around windows and computers. And I doubt my wife would have followed such prompts or even started the process. Could malware or a virus have done this?

 

[Rocky Bennett]

This is a very odd case and you might have to clean install Windows 10 in order to get it back.

 

[USAFRet]

Everything is still in place as far as I can tell. Games that I know were installed after I upgraded are still there. My wife's Lightroom presetsare still there. Etc. I know my way around windows and computers. And I doubt my wife would have followed such prompts or even started the process. Could malware or a virus have done this?

No, a virus can't do that. Those old Win 8 files should not have existed on that system. Nothing to 'go back to'.
This is very strange.

Can you post a screencap of your desktop and/or Start menu.

 

[andy_wh2000]

I will when I get back home from work. My wife did text me a pic earlier of a "driver problem / Chrome Malware" that popped up while using Chrome. Shows up every time in chrome but not in IE.

 

[andy_wh2000]

Long story short. Looks like the Sata Cable for my C: drive went bad or something. My old boot drive that I had plugged in still for backup from when I refreshed my system with an SSD became the current boot drive. I didn't notice because both drives were 500GB and only one was showing up. I'd forgotten that I had the old hard drive plugged in because my wife uses the computer more than I do. I swapped the cables for the drives and was back in business. Goes to show that we over think our problems sometimes.

 

[USAFRet]

Long story short. Looks like the Sata Cable for my C: drive went bad or something. My old boot drive that I had plugged in still for backup from when I refreshed my system with an SSD became the current boot drive. I didn't notice because both drives were 500GB and only one was showing up. I'd forgotten that I had the old hard drive plugged in because my wife uses the computer more than I do. I swapped the cables for the drives and was back in business. Goes to show that we over think our problems sometimes.

Ah ha!
Good to know there wasn't actual evil magic going on in there.