Acer Iconia W510 | Downgrading to Windows 8
I have upgraded my Acer Iconia W510 tablet to Windows 10 a few months ago. It was supposed to be all fine and stuff, but when a month passed, funky things started to happen.
- The tablet would continuously crash
- Taskbar is almost always unresponsive
- Typing is very slow and keys register after 5 seconds.
- Graphics Drivers are not compatible with Windows 10
I would like to downgrade to windows 8, but all of windows.old and any other windows 8 file has been removed...
Windows 10 will not let me downgrade, because it's been over 10 days since I used it.
Is there any way I can downgrade back to Windows 8, or am I supposed to stay with a $150 piece of junk?
Best Answer
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In your win8 device, you can create a recovery media that will help you to re-install win8 in win10 machine, if recovery partition is still intact.I'm not an Acer employee.0
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you can try to reset windows 10 and check if it was a software/driver issue or buy an Acer erecovery media to revert to factory OS.
Acer recovery media
US:
https://store.acer.com/en-us/extended/recovery/Canada:
https://store.acer.com/en-ca/extended/recovery/
if you are outside the US and Canada, you must call/email your regional Acer support service:
http://www.acer.com/worldwide/support/I'm not an Acer employee.0 -
The driver is not compatible with Windows 10, so resetting isn't an option.
I wouldn't want to use an item costing me an extra $44 CAD and have it used once or twice.
Is there any "free" way I can do this?
(I have another Iconia W510 tablet running at Windows 8, is there any way I could like transfer the OS from that one to the Windows 10 Tablet?)
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In your win8 device, you can create a recovery media that will help you to re-install win8 in win10 machine, if recovery partition is still intact.I'm not an Acer employee.0
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Okay, thanks!
I'll come back to you if I still need help.
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If the windows 8.1 recovery partition is not in device and windows.Old directory but have a recovery flash drive can I downgrade windows 10 to windows 8.1 ??0