ya mine dont meet the requirements for 11 either! --- thats how they messed up the other hard drive. I got the other hd back up to w-7 and with some manipulating I can get 10 back on it, Its a small 500 gb drive and this one now is a 2tb and is working so far.
They got MOST of 11 snuck into this one now and its a bitch to find the stuff I use and like you I tried to pin the stuff I use most,
HEY,--- I did manage to finally guess my flickr log in stuff!--what I had wrote down didnt work anymore so I worked from the username and had them send a "forgot password" thingy and got it set up with a new password!

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