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[–] tribblepuncher ago 

I do not have any figures as to whether or not there was a change in the date. However, given the number of "bugs" so far, it wouldn't surprise me in the least. I don't think Microsoft has all that much of an incentive to improve the uninstallation functionality, especially since it self-destructs.

As a note to anyone reading - OS UNINSTALLS ARE NEVER GUARANTEED. Of course, uninstalls (or installs) of anything are never guaranteed, but in the case of the OS, things are especially tricky, and the machine you get back might not be the machine you left. Just keep this in mind if you try to install an OS. The only true uninstall for an OS is a complete disk image backup. I know this is too late to help you and the person you're helping, OP, but hopefully this will help someone else.

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[–] donotreply [S] ago 

At least a couple of times a month (sometimes lots more) I end up wiping/installing 7 with customers data. Some I have disk image for which makes life much easier, this happened to be a fairly new client and alas no image was made prior to the "wonderful upgrade".

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[–] tribblepuncher ago 

Did it screw things up so bad that there was no way to, say, boot into Linux and copy the data to another disk from there? I'm genuinely curious as to just how bad a Windows 10 upgrade can get (although in extreme circumstances it can get really awful, I'm sure).