Trying to downgrade to Windows 7 - new problem

[onegooseegg]

I'm still dealing with an earlier situation, having no optical drive and no drivers, no internet, and no USB ports working to be able to load drivers on my downgrade from Win10 to Win7. HP told me to go back to 10. Baaah. My work platform is still not compatible with 10. Anyway, I am trying to use a slipstream method to load drivers and 7 at the same time, but I've run into another problem. I need to get back to Windows 10 so I can attempt another Win7 install, but Windows 10 is not available anywhere I look. I know it is still there, as windows.old has Win10 files in there, but I did not partition correctly to have a dual login. When I try and delete Windows 7 under system config and boot, it is the only current os and default os. The delete button will not light to delete Windows 7. I just need to revert back to 10 so I can retry downloading Windows 7 with slipstream drivers. Hoping someone can help. Thanks

 

[Saga Lout]

You can download a bootable ISO of Windows 10 fom teh Microsoft website. Put it on a flash drive and try it on a USB Port. Outside of a system, drivers are academic so they should work.

If you have no personal data on that hard disk, I suggest you let the installation clean the drive completely.

Given that you once had Windows 10, you should sail through activation as soon as you get online.