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How Do I Restore a Windows 10 Windows.old?

Anonymous
2017-12-01T13:14:29+00:00

So today my laptop forced me to update to Fall's creators update (I was in Windows 10 Anniversary before the update). Then before I remember updating to creator's update and it sucks so I went back to anniversary without a problem, but then when I update to falls creator's and went back to anniversary, the OS broke and I have to reinstall windows. Then I know that there will be a Windows.old and I want to recover files from there. But no matter how much websites I went to, there is no answer for this, so how do I recover a Windows 10 Windows.old in Windows 10?

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-12-01T13:41:13+00:00

    I can't find it (there is no admin account, I am the only one)

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-12-01T13:27:38+00:00

    You can recover files from Windows.old if its there:

    https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/for...

    If its been less than 10 days since you upgraded, you should be able to rollback:

    Open Start > Settings > Update & security > Recovery > under Go back to my previous version of Windows 10, click Get started.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-12-01T14:15:44+00:00

    I just updated today, and I wanna recover all my apps (and data), and the windows.old is still there.

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-12-01T13:50:56+00:00

    Well, its been more than 10 days since you upgraded then.

    What are you missing exactly and in specific detail what are you trying to accomplish?

    Are you missing personal files?

    Do you want to go back to your previous version?

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  5. Anonymous
    2017-12-01T15:03:06+00:00

    It didn't work :(

    and I don't wanna reset all my data...

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