How do I restore my Windows 8.1 operating system?

To reset your PC

Swipe in from the right edge of the screen, tap Settings, and then tap Change PC settings.
Tap or click Update and recovery, and then tap or click Recovery.
Under Remove everything and reinstall Windows, tap or click Get started.
Follow the instructions on the screen.

Can you go back to Windows 8.1 from Windows 10?

Select the Start button > Settings > Update & Security > Recovery. Under Go back to the previous version of Windows 10,Go back to Windows 8.1, select Get started. By following the prompts, you’ll keep your personal files but remove apps and drivers installed after the upgrade, plus any changes you made to settings.

How can I get Windows without a disk drive?

How To Install Windows without a CD/DVD Drive

Step 1: Install Windows from ISO file on a Bootable USB Storage Device. For starters, to install windows from any USB storage device, you need to create a bootable ISO file of the windows operating system on that device.
Step 2: Install Windows Using Your Bootable Device.

Which is better NTFS or exFAT?

NTFS is ideal for internal drives, while exFAT is generally ideal for flash drives. However, you may sometimes need to format an external drive with FAT32 if exFAT isn’t supported on a device you need to use it with.

Which is better FAT32 or exFAT?

Generally speaking, exFAT drives are faster at writing and reading data than FAT32 drives. Apart from writing large files to the USB drive, exFAT outperformed FAT32 in all tests. And in the large file test, it was almost the same. Note: All benchmarks show that NTFS is much faster than exFAT.

How do I bypass 4GB limitation on FAT32?

Resize the FAT32 partition and make an exFAT (or other supporting filesystem) partition that is large enough to hold the file. If you ever need to access the large file in place on the USB drive, this is probably the best solution.

What are the limitations of exFAT?

exFAT supports greater file size and partition size limits than FAT 32. FAT 32 has a 4GB maximum file size and 8TB maximum partition size, whereas you can store files that are larger than 4GB each on a flash drive or SD card formatted with exFAT. exFAT’s maximum file size limit is 16EiB (Exbibyte).