Hi, today I bought a used desktop. It has windows 10 on it, however it has obviously been upgraded from windows 7. If i recover the machine to factory settings ( there are two options, keep files of wipe everything ) will the machine revert to windows 7 or stay with 10. I assume the person who sold me it must of recovered it, however if they did , they created an admin account.I guess to show the machine running There appears to be a small recovery partition , does this contain 7 or 10 ? ]Also i was going to create a system image, but this says something about windows 7 ( see pics ) Totally confused here. Can anyone please advise. Many thanks in advance
Windows upgrades will generally update the Recovery Partition so that it matches the currently installed Windows version -- Windows 10 in your case. This TenForums discussion may be of interest. It is normal for the Windows 10 Control Panel to include that Back up and Restore (Windows 7) option in order to provide backward compatibility.
mick92z, This is a UEFI system with Win10 on a GPT disk and is probably not a Win7 upgrade. If you use Diskpart you will see the drive has 4 partitions, not 3. Neither. It's only 829 MB.
If you wiped the windows.old folder, you can no longer revert to Windows 7. All you can do is go back to the original default state of Windows 10 installed on the PC.
Well i had a problem today and had to wipe the machine. Windows 10 did reappear although slightly different to before. Cheers
have you checked out if that hardware is maintained with drivers for windows 10? whats the exact name and vendor of that computer? done research on vendors page? the 2 partitions are regular - one to boot and another to repair while the repair information is store on drive c. i will never use this method, i own backup images after install and important changes (drivers/first update packages/major upgrades).