Reverting from Windows 10 or performing a factory reboot?
I've been experiencing the internal_power_error, and the solution isn't working for me. Whenever I try to go into safe mode, I get the error as it's restarting. Does anyone know how I can revert to 8.1 or perform a factory reset?
You can create a bootable USB drive with a Windows 8.1 image on it if you want to do a clean install. The files from the old OS are also still on the hard drive but I'm not sure how you'd be able to use them if you can't boot to Windows 10. It's possible that it'll let you repair or something though if it finds the files instead of a clean install.
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kac0802 wrote:
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