I had to upgrade from windows 8.1 to 10 because of burned up harddrive

Yeah and rentacenter said we had a 1 year warranty after paying it off. They wanted to install a used hd. I wasn't very happy.

That's why I use a disk for every build.

What do you mean? For recovery?

Should I small claims rentacenter for my $290?

Bummer

Expect a lack of privacy, lack of control of your own computer, and forced updates that often screw things up and use hella bandwidth at the least opportune times.

You also hate Texas.
Remember?
You changed the title... but still hate Texans.
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They said you had no choice? On what did they base that massive load of dis-information? You can buy and install any version of windows that your computer will support. Yes, support for Windows 7 ends in January but as long as you have decent security software, you don't really need "support".

Just remember the hard drive may have warranty, but that doesn’t include your Data. ALWAYS backup!

You can still buy NOS 8.1 , 7 windows disks ready to go.

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Welcome to the future, old man.

no you didn't HAVE to

also, you use rent a center and geeksquad?!

IT made me do IT...I still have protection.

^^^ THIS ^^^

The problem with your situation is...

1. Geek Squad
2. Rent-a-Center

Do a search for 'replace hard drive' - this is a pretty easy IT task, even for a novice.
Best of luck to you.

Geek Squad lied you did not have to upgrade hard drive upgrades are easy you don't have to upgrade the operating system for that they wanted you to upgrade the operating system so they can spy on you they've got caught doing that the CIA repeatedly congratulations you installed the CIA onto your hard drive never trust a company with anything.

you got a windows 8.1 license on that computer right? microsoft hologram sticker on the bottom? and a new hard drive? so you can download a windows 8.1 install iso and make a booty usb and then install windows 8.1

but you have to make copies of alllll yore data first.

Geeksquad is mcdonalds workers without the grease. You want to not upgrade but change realities with linux. Learn it. It is like a new language to do anything complicated but for the easy senior stuff, it is windows without bill gates injecting updates in your colon every Tuesday. It also does not crash and hackers are much less interested in you.

Find a smart kid who is anti-SJW (powerball odds) and he will hook you up. Notice I said "he".

Run this to debloat and strip win10. disables lots and lots of stuff. windows updates stop too. if you have enough RAM id be using ubuntu as a virtual machine to cruz web

[link to fdossena.com (secure)]

LOL
as IF these bastards ever even gave support ?

they rank right up there w/snOpes for evading answers,a direct answer to a question involving THEIR crappy OS.
and of course one can get a hold of previous versions-
by an act of Divine Providence ,i bought a barely used large unisex courier type satchel and tucked inside IS windows 7 Professional 64bytes--what i had prior to microshytes FORCED DOWNLOADS of 10, that were over-riding MY set preferences till finally one nite, a massive download that continued for hours totally destroyed a toshiba satellite laptop and these satellite computers were a new technology at the time of purchase, mine was not cheap/purchased brand new etc--totally FRIED damn them...i refuse windows 10 as it remains a cluttered POS and their TOS has microshyte basically owning YOUR computer and it's contents.
when my time permits i will get the fried on to take that windows 7 as it still powers on---LOL !

theres ALWAYS a choice. just use a linux live CD and format the drive, then reinstall whatever version of windows you want.

bwaaaaaaahahahahaaaaaaa

remains a good read,that one.
LOL !

?????? OP, do you hate Texas? If so why?