Charles Clarke
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Charles I think I got same problem. I have a lenova and when I was asked everyday by MS to upgrade to windows 10 I refused. I was very happy with my pre-installed win 7 gome premium. One day it started downloading windows 10 without my knowledge or I missed it but I couldnt stop it. It began installing after the dowenload and I had to sit helplessy and watch . It got to 95% finished and stopped with an error, the only thing is it didnt re-install my pre-installed windows 7. So I cant system recover or do much of anything on what I guess is what was left of puter without windows. I I purchased the recover windows disk but it is not helping one bit and am asking for refund. Microsoft says its a lenova issue and lenovo says MS sis responsible. I really had high hopes when I read about thewindow recovery disk I just purchased but I am again heart broke over my computer.
Sadly the recovery disk is only for repairing the existing OS not recovering after W7 HPrem has been overwritten with W10. The best way to recover is to see if you can access your files on your disk by taking it out of the machine and connecting to it via a disk caddy on another computer. Once you have all your files off the disk, you can rebuild it with a new copy of W7. Unfortunately, if you do 'the right thing' and use auto update in Windows, it will download 13GB of W10 files without asking. There are various well documented ways of stopping it, on the web. I'm still running W7 on all my machines. One other possible way is to get a new disk for the Lenovo and put a new version of W7 on it -- there are some free downloads on the web. You could use it as an opportunity to upgrade to a Solid State Disk. You could then get a disk caddy (from Amazon or similar) to download your files from your old disk -- it makes the old disk look like an external hard drive to your new machine, so you can access your files and folders without going via the operating system -- the W10 upgrade should not have compromised your data file (word docs, images etc.). It takes a while -- half a day or so, if you're learning as you are doing it, but there doesn't seem to be any other way round it.