Query related to uninstall Windows 8

Original title: uninstall of win 8

I have uninstall windows 8

Hello

Welcome to the community Microsoft and thanks for posting the question.

According to the description, it looks like you have problems to uninstall Windows 8.

I need to ask you some questions to help you better.

1. Why do you want to uninstall Windows 8?

2. is it an upgrade or a new installation?

If you have a Windows.old folder to the root of the drive where Windows 8 has been installed, you can try to uninstall Windows 8 using this folder. See follow-up items for instructions. They reference Windows 7, but the same principles apply when you use Windows 8:

How to uninstall Windows by using the Windows.old folder:
http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/971760

If there is no Windows.old folder there then it means you did a clean install.

If you have critical data on the disk, try to manually back up to an external hard drive using copy and paste.

Answer to us if you are having problems with Windows 8 or any other issue of Windows, and I'd be happy to help you.

Good day!

Hope this information helps.

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