Win 10 won't downgrade to Windows 7 - despite giving me option to do s

My home built i7 running Win 10 Home 64 bit was fine for a few days, and then I had trouble with audio. I could hear all sounds but trying to record audio was impossible, It wouldnt even load the programms i use (Roxio creator 10 and Audacity).

After wasting a day resintalling programmes, updating drivers I'd had enough, so i decided to Settings > Recovery > Go back to Windows 7.

I clicked that, went through the various options, and clicked on return to Windows 7.

The computer shut down, then booted up....and came back with Windows 10 still working. I have looked online but can find no one else with the problem !

Ive tried 8 times now. Windows 10 is very tenacious. How do I get the PC to do the apparently simple task of returning to Win 7 ?

Thank you ! Yes, I'm aware of the 30 day limit. I did the upgrade to 10 less than a fortnight ago. If you go past the 30 days i gather the option to return to 7 either isn't offered at all or it tells you it can't be done. Neither apply to me.

The option is there, and every help article I've read says its simple - the follow the steps I've already done. I am offered the option of returning to Windows 7 and click it. The PC shuts down, restarts........with Windows 10 !

I can;t help thinking I'm goign to have to do a full reinstall here. Thanks Microsoft.

Thank you. ....but can you point me in the direction of that ?
I've tried F11 to enter the boot sequence and the del key to enter the bios but can't see anything obvious like the old safe mode in XP

It just starts as win 10.....

Is it done from within win 10 p ?

Thank you.....found it. I've had a poke around and no....it can't roll back or revert to a previous version as it encountered 'a problem'.

Startup repair ? 'Startup repair couldn't repair your pc' it says.

Offers me a reset but threatens to lose a load of programs.

I'm resigned to a reinstall.

God bless Microsoft.

Hi Andy did you find a solution, I am having the exact same problem..?

Andy Parr said:

Thank you.....found it. I've had a poke around and no....it can't roll back or revert to a previous version as it encountered 'a problem'.

Startup repair ? 'Startup repair couldn't repair your pc' it says.

Offers me a reset but threatens to lose a load of programs.

I'm resigned to a reinstall.

God bless Microsoft.

No. It just went round and round. So I did a reinstall of win 7.

Then the cpu overheated about a month later and it completely died !
New pc still running win 7 and haven't bothered with 10