How to uninstall Consumer preview

Seriously? A missing Start button, and the inability to play a brand new game in a beta version of a new operating system have you deciding against it?

I'm speechless...

I hope you have original 'Windows.old' directory inside your primary drive C:

1) Get a boot-able USB for Windows 8 Consumer Preview
[To make a boot-able USB, first format your USB, and then copy the whole content of 'WindowsESD' directory (you would get that inside C: drive after installing windows 8 Consumer Preview) to your USB. Additionally, open C:\WindowsESD\boot\ in command prompt with admin rights and run command 'bootsect /nt60 g:' (without quotes) where 'g:' denotes your USB drive letter. Well, another way to make a bootable USB for Windows 8 is - use 'Windows 7 DVD/USB Download Tool but you must have an ISO image of your "Windows 8 Consumer Preview" installation before hand]]

2) Boot from that boot-able USB device (change your BIOS settings if necessary)

3) Let the setup load

4) Choose languages and click 'Next'

5) You would see a 'Repair your computer' button; click on that

6) Press SHIFT+F10. This would open an elevated command prompt

7) Now, run the following commands to move your existing Windows 8 installation:
[Ignore if you get 'no such file or directory exists' or something like that and go the next step]


- md win8
- move Windows win8\Windows
- move "Program Files" "win8\Program Files"
- move "Program Files (x86)" "win8\Program Files (x86)"
- move Users win8\Users
- attrib -h -s -r ProgramData
- move ProgramData win8\ProgramData
- move PerfLogs win8\PerfLogs
- rd "Documents and Settings"

8) Now, restore your previous Windows installation (for both 32bit and 64bit) with the following commands [Ignore if you get 'no such file or directory exists' or something like that and go the next step]

- move /y c:\Windows.old\Windows c:\
- move /y "c:\Windows.old\Program Files" c:\
- move /y "Windows.old\Program Files (x86)" c:\
- move /y Windows.old\Users c:\
- move /y Windows.old\ProgramData c:\
- move /y Windows.old\PerfLogs c:\
- move /y "c:\Windows.old\Documents and Settings" c:\

** If your previous installation was WinXP SP3, run the following command additionally:
- g: (again, 'g:' denotes your USB drive letter)
- cd boot
- bootsect /nt52 c:


9) Now, reboot your computer and boot from your hard disk

not working for me, on the move side, what does /y represent?

What type of installation did you use?
Is it setup as a dual-boot system?
Did you do an "upgrade" installation?

Well, I at the end I did full re install. But may be others can get help here.

Put windows disk in. when asked what drive to install in, select your windows 8 drive and under options format it.

Well, I at the end I did full re install. But may be others can get help here.