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windows 11 installer assistant

Anonymous
2021-10-16T15:44:19+00:00

I used the windows 11 installer assistant to try and install windows 11... atleast thats what it said it was doing... what it didnt say was that it would actually roll back my pc to how it was a year ago causing me to lose a year of data. I used the installer and it finnished downloading windows 11, then it finnished installing windows 11 and the 30 minuet countdown started to restart my pc. I pressed "restart now" and left the room. i came back a while later to find my pc has just rolled back to how it was EXACTLY about a year ago. my backgrounds have been changed back. my microsof t profile picture has been changed back. my windows isnt even on my SSD anymore becuase a year ago i only had a hardrive. data has just vanished. programs gone. all my microsoft setting reverted.

now, considering the other day i bricked my pc so that it would even POST and i was able to recover from that no problem. there is no way in hell you can tell me that:

  1. there is nothing i can do to revert back to how it was before i trid to install windows 11.
  2. that this should even be possible. why doesnt it say anywhere that this would happen. why was there no error message. there was no warning when using the installer assistant. nothing at all. as far as i was concirned everything was fine.

all I want is to restore my pc back to how it was before i tried to install this piece of **** operating system. I swear after that i wont ever try to upgrade again. i promise

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-10-16T19:13:39+00:00

    i would have to disagree, it is easy to back things up sure. but a windows installation assistant should never do a thing like this... because its impossible and you should know that its impossible. there is no way in hell that windows is capable of pulling files and data that was deleted out of its ****, uninstall software or delete files. if any of these things were something that could happen there would be a warning... or other poeple would have the same issue. Sure, things do happen... but not this. the other day i bricked my pc and fixed it with no problem at all. so you cant try to tell me that this windows installation was the death of my pc lmao. I have now solved the issue, ill tell you what I did so that your better educated and next time could help somone out rather than tell them they **** up and that tell them what they should have done than trying to help them. atleast the other guy here tryed to help.

    the problem was that after the update, my pc started to boot off the wrong drive which had the old installation of windows on it. I have no doubt in my mind that you would have thought of that had you given the issue some thought. so i dont think your stupid or usless... just next time... help the person or dont say anything at all. you can always give some suggestions for what to do in the future after solving the issue...

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-10-16T18:13:03+00:00

    Hello Harryayre,

    Search up roll back in Windows search, choose the one that has settings in it.

    If you are unable to rollback, please try the Media Creation Tool and doing a clean install.

    Thank you :)

    Shawn

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-10-16T16:17:52+00:00

    could you explain exactly how to get to recovery??

    I have gone to settings > system
    theres no recovery option here

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-10-16T16:11:47+00:00

    nope, it rolled back to a point in time before i had any restore points so all the restore points are gone... which btw is not how a restore point should work. ill have a look for recovery. also im sorry if i come accros as rude. im just frustrated that this stuff always happens to me without fail as if the world is against me. im not angry at you so im sorry

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-10-16T15:51:36+00:00

    Hello,

    That's strange, is there any restore points or error when logging in when the installer? Also go to system, go to recovery, roll back. Is that a option?

    Thanks,

    Shawn

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