Hi. I have a Lenovo Yoga 13 that came with Windows 8 installed. I backed up my system under Windows 8 with Paragon Backup and Recovery 2013. I upgraded to Windows 8.1 and I cannot get my system to work properly, despite hours on the phone with Lenovo tech support. According to the Lenovo rep, the only way I can go back to using Windows 8 is to wipe my entire system clean and start over with factory settings. Can I recover a previous backup I did with Paragon, and revert to Windows 8 that way? Is there a risk in doing so? Thanks.
What exactly did you back up? The whole disk? Only the OS (Windows) partition? Several partitions? Also, please post a disk map of the current state of your disk as seen by Windows Disk Manager.
Hi, Robin, and thank you. I ran the backup wizard . I think I backed up everything, but I am not sure. It took about 120 GB on an external drive- mostly files starting with the letters "img" followed by a long string of numbers, plus two smaller files (a .pbf file and a .pfi file) called "BACKUP" followed by a date . This is what I think you mean by a disk map....I hope I am right: Disk 0, Basic, 119.12 GB Online: -1000 MB Healthy (Recovery) -260 MB Healthy (EFI System Partition) -1000 MB Healthy (OEM Partition) -Windows8_OS (C 100.21 GB NTFS Healthy (Boot, Page File. Crash Dump, Primary Partition) -450 MB Healthy (Recovery Partition) -8 GB Healthy (Primary Partition) -8.25 GB Healthy (Recovery Partition) (This last item was in hatch marks) Disk 1 Removable 119.26 GB Online Unallocated (this refers to a Micro-SD card) -16 MB Unallocated Primary Partition - (E 119.25 GB exFAT Healthy (Primary Partition) Thanks a million for taking the time to review this for me. Michael
My post above put smiley faces in place of the colon and parentheses indicating the C and E drives, which I think is funny. I think you probably figured that out.