
The first tutorial is for those of you who installed Windows 7 on the same hard drive containing an older Windows OS and the Windows 7 installation created the Windows.old folder which contains your previous operating system, settings, and personal data as it were before installing Windows 7. If this is the case our second tutorial will work for you. If your system doesn’t have the Windows.old and you want to revert to your old operating system this guide will not work and you will have to instead perform a custom/clean installation of your old OS, unless of course you installed Windows 7 as a secondary operating system in a multiboot configuration. If you used the Windows 7 installation disc or files to install Windows 7 on the same hard drive that had Windows XP, Vista, or another version of Windows 7 on it and your system has the Windows.old folder our first tutorial will work for you. This guide is applicable if you installed Windows 7 as a new installation on top of an earlier version of Windows such as XP or Vista or if you installed Windows 7 in a multiboot configuration. In this guide we are going to offer you two methods to manually restore your computer back to a previous Windows installation before Windows 7 was installed. How-to uninstall Windows 7 on multiboot configurations or on systems with Windows.old
