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need to downgrade, over 30 days after upgrade, no back up of win 8
I have a toshiba Satellite c855d-s5100, which I bought a few years back and came with windows 8 loaded. I upgraded to win 8.1 (which I loved over all), and then recently upgraded to win 10. Well, I thought I had done my research before upgrading, but I must have had a dyslexic moment, because while there are at least 50 Satellite models that are considered "suitable" for 10 by Toshiba, mine isn't one of them.
I had been holding out , hoping that the horrible lag and freezes, as well as the other more minor glitches, would soon be worked out via driver or OS updates, but eventually I gave up and decided I wanted to go back to 8.1. This was on Saturday, 34 days after install--which is when I found out about the 30-day easy reversion back to your previous OS. Heh.
EaseUS does me no good, since you need to have the program and create your back up before installation of win 10. Granted, had I access to more money, I would have gotten a memory stick and backed up 8.1 like an intelligent person; patience and I would have set up a recovery partition. But I didn't--and for the first time, I can't figure out how to fix my oops.
I opted to reset windows once I realized reversion wasn't going to happen easily, and I hoped that maybe the reset would help some of the glitchiness.
Heh.
Well, unlike when I reset 8.1--where I was kicked back to 8, all of the bloatware that came with my computer returned, etc., this time I had NOTHING. Realtek was my audio controller, now its Microsoft. Everything Toshiba--user guide, utilities, etc, is gone.
My computer, like many these days, for some bs reason came with no recovery media--just a recovery partition and the assurance that that should be all I need. So, my question is, where is that recovery partition? Did Windows write over the original, and in its exuberance delete not only the other win version but all the stock software and drivers (for better or worse) that came with my computer?
I'm stuck, and frustrated (this is just 1 of many things jabbing my sanity with a sharp stick at the moment, which is probably why I can't figure this out on my own)--will someone please help me bail my non-self-preserving ass out of this clusterfneh and give me back my computer and source of mental palate cleansing?
GRRRRAAAAUGH!!
Thank you in advance!