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Windows 10 Anniversary Update Borks Dual-Boot Partitions (omgubuntu.co.uk)
Windows 10 Anniversary Update may affect and even delete other partitions on the same disk, OMGUbuntu is reporting, citing several complaints by users. "Broken boot loaders on an update are one thing but losing data, even entire partitions?" asks the author. Microsoft-centric news blog WindowsReport is corroborating on the report, adding that in some cases, the new OS was not able to detect some partitions. It says (edited): Many users are reporting that some of their partitions disappeared after installing the Anniversary Update. Usually, it's the smallest partition that disappears, although we couldn't say for sure whether the partition is deleted or if Windows simply doesn't detect it. Some users are saying that the partition is not allocated, while others can detect it once they install third-party partition management applications.We have reached out to Microsoft for clarification, and will update the post when we hear back from them.
... is for loosers (MS)
lost my primary Linux partition which was my main OS. could not recover partition intact, only 120,000 files recovered with photorec. will use VMs in future if I need windows for anything
No, it's more like "fuck", as in "Microsoft is fucking over anyone who puts another OS on their computer."
Good ol' Microsoft. Still evil after all these years.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
I cannot imagine a worse combination.
As in, installing Windows after installing Linux will mess with the boot loader.
Everyone running a dual boot system should already be aware of this since the recommendation is always to install Linux second.
New major updates to Windows 10 are basically entirely new operating systems. They just make the process more transparent these days.
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
While I imagine I'll have to bite the bullet on my sole Win 10 machine eventually and download the anniversary edition, I intentionally set it to "Metered Connection" for exactly this reason. I like to let major updates hit and assess the impact for a few days before taking the plunge, and currently telling Windows you're on a metered connection is the only way to get it to not automatically download updates. Looks like I'll be waiting a bit longer than I thought - would not appreciate my Linux partition going up in smoke.
smallest partition as in efi / dell utils type ones?
Will f* an apple system in boot camp?
This precisely the behavior a predatory monopolist is expected to have.
It's ok, The EULA will protect Microsoft for deleting malware (to its bottom line) like other operating systems.
_ _ _ Go for the eyes Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!
I missed the free Windows 10 update and all the fun Windows 10 users are having.
Dang it!
MS can pull an t-mobile and have isp make update cap and roaming free?
This was my problem with Windows 10 when I installed it a few months ago. It failed to do some update, so wanted to repair itself, but every time it tried it was trying to restore itself on the EFI partition, not the actual windows partition. Thankfully at that point I still had grub installed with the boot sector of one of my disks intact, so was able to boot into Linux via legacy option, but after many failed attempts to boot windows 10 and having it trash my EFI partition while trying to restore, I gave up and haven't booted windows since. No loss though, I only ever booted it up to do updates in case one day I ever actually needed to do another cross platform build.
Still evil? They've gotten significantly more evil since Gandhi took over.
"We have reached out to Microsoft for clarification, and will update the post when we hear back from them."
In other words, "We have reached out to Microsoft for clarification, and will update the post when they tell us to fuck off and stop complaining."
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Windows isn't done until Lotus doesn't run.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
I wonder how long until some automatic Windows 10 update will disable altering any BIOS settings via some rootkit for "security" reasons. I mean, if they're not going to get hit with antitrust violations or charges of abusing their customers for all of the things they've done already (force Windows 10 updates on Win7/8. 1 users, telemetry that deceptively appears to be able to be turned off but really can't, no unsigned drivers allowed, uploading BitLocker keys to their servers, remove features during routine updates, uninstall programs during routine updates, ever-growing built-in advertisements, etc.), then they can pretty much just do anything they like, including preventing other operating systems from booting (which, I add, is now the case both on Windows RT tablets and Windows 10 phones).
Well, now we are seeing where Microsoft's QA does not focus their attention. Why wouldn't Microsoft's QA test for this scenario? Possibly because Microsoft does not care, and does not want, other OS's on its hard disk in a dual-boot scenario?
is your friend.
1) Ran update - it downloaded 3GB of stuff, ran for a while and stalled at 0% complete ... back into (un-updated) original Windows.
2) Restarted PC and update - ran for a long time (unattended) and rebooted
3) Repeat above (update downloaded 3GB AGAIN) - but watched. After 2nd reboot showed (briefly) blue screen complaining about driver issue (using stock Dell drivers) and then automatically rolled back to original Windows 10, & rebooted
4) Updated ALL Dell drivers from Dell site.
5) Ran update again and yes again it downloaded 3GB of stuff and again failed with same blue screen.
I think I'll wait a few weeks (months?) till MS (hopefully) FIXES their update.
[Insert pithy quote here]
My frustration was finding a lot of posts about how to recover data instead of fixing the fact Windows 10 kept forgetting, messing with partitions. All my data was backed up.
Ended up just reinstalling Windows 10 from scratch (with anniversary update slipstreamed) which seemed to have solved the issue.
I'm actually loving the Linux subsystem on Windows right now.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
If they would only develop games so they supported Linux too, I could totally get rid of Microsoft's malware off my PC forever.
No, it's more like "fuck", as in "Microsoft is fucking over anyone who puts another OS on their computer."
Exactly. So far as I'm concerned, it's not an accident on the part of Microsoft. They want to own your computer, and pwn you in the process. Any competing OS must be destroyed utterly. Wouldn't at all be surprised if it not only deletes the affected partition(s), but overwrites them first, rendering anything on them unrecoverable. What's next, Microsoft? Virus hidden in the reserved section of the drive, that thwarts any attempt to remove Windows? Render your hard drive unusable if you uninstall Windows? Reprogram all the VR's on your motherboard and smoke the processor core and PCH if you attempt to install a dual-boot? Assholes.
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
+1 Insightful, -1 Vaguely Racist
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
I actually had the issue of Windows 10 deleting its OWN partitions. computer started running funny, then it BSODed and then would only boot to a flashing cursor. Booted into repair only to find that my system drive was reporting as 100% available. not even the Windows 10 system partitions were present. nothing could read any semblance of a partition table from the drive to recover any of my data.
I suppose this isn't entirely unexpected. Windows has never played well with others in a multi-boot environment. I recall that it doesn't preserve alternate bootloaders like Grub when installing a new OS, and I'd imagine that's how these major upgrades are treated. There were probably changes to the bootloader of some sort, and so it blithely "updated" it, wiping out the existing bootloader, apparently without bothering to confirm whether it *should* or not.
This is why my Windows dev machine is Windows-only, and I've got a separate Linux box with multiple distros on it for Linux-specific development.
But seriously, Microsoft? That's just lame. It's hard to imagine that this isn't a known scenario that they wouldn't think to test for. It's not like multi-boot scenarios are unheard of.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
jumpers can get around that
Also - It installs Cortana and fully enables it, no surprise there, but if you go into all of the privacy settings it has changed the settings for items like writing monitor to "help Microsoft track how you type". Yeah they need to know that all right... as well as several other items I found had been reverted back to the non private settings. One, the diagnostic phone home, is again on and takes a registry hack to turn it back off again.
"Computers are a lot like Air Conditioners" "They both work great until you start opening Windows"
Microsoft Loves Linux*
*as long as Linux isn't running a GUI. From Microsoft's point of view you don't need a Linux partition any more. You can do your Linux script development under their Ubuntu on Windows thingy - and after all, Linux is only a server OS. No need for the GUI stuff. Of course no current Linux desktop users are going to be satisfied with that - but maybe some folks will find it useful as an addon to their current Windows-centric desktop worlds.
It seems like MS has accepted that they've lost the battle (if not the war) as far as Linux as a cloud-based app server is concerned. But it looks like they're still hoping that's the only place Linux will get traction. Of course, it's already got traction in mobile too, and MS seems resigned to that. But they're still in panic mode where the traditional is concerned. It's bad enough that they can't do anything about this ChromeOS thing. But on desktop PC's that also run Windows, they're still in control...
Posted from my Android phone. Oh, I can change this? There, that's better...
No point reaching out - you're going to have to contact them. Perhaps you can phone them or email them?
More games than I can handle, really. All full Linux ports. I do have Windows, but haven't booted it to play games in at least a couple months now.
PHEM - party like it's 1997-2003!
There have been at least two Windows 7 updates I've had to temporarily disable Grub for, otherwise they fail.
PHEM - party like it's 1997-2003!
Back in the late 1990's I was dual booting Windows and Linux. A PC magazine had included a CD with an early version Red Hat Linux and ran a series of articles on the strange OS. Linux had no problems dealing with the Windows partitions.
Move forward a bit to Windows XP and more dual booting.Commercial and free partition managers support Linux partitions. Windows would still screw with Linux partition, particularly when installing Windows, so having keeping each OS on a separate physical HDD became critical. That way you could unplug the Linux drive to protect it from MS incompetence. Amusingly, Linux could mount Windows partitions to transfer files over and I was able to install a driver on Windows that allowed Windows to mount Linux partitions, however, Windows XP had no native support for non-windows partitions. Linux proves to be more capable in key area than Windows but I'm still using WInXP as my main OS.
Jump forward to Windows 7 and Linux dual booting. The situation has improved a bit because you could technically let Win7 manage booting mulitple OS but it still screws with Linux partitions and has no native support for Linux partition types. Linux still does a better job and I can go months without booting into Windows anyway. More commercial software supports Linux, including games, and the open source applications available have greatly improved to the point of being better than MS products. I really hated the ribbon interface nonsense in MS Office because it reduced my productivity, it was nearly a stupid as having some animated paperclip jumping around on your screen while you're trying to work...
Windows 8 appears and I decided than if I'm ever forced to replace Win7 I'll just give up on dual booting and just stick with Linux full time. Windows 10 brings spyware and adware built into the OS, setting a new low for MS and having some very surprising side effects; friends, family and people barely know are wanting to know about Linux and how they can get away from Windows 10. There has never been a version of Windows that happily coexists with another OS, why would anyone be surprised that Win10 is breaking Linux dual boots? It is either intentionally evil or supreme incompetence; MS has a history of both.
It also broke a friend's ability to read his external hard drive.
Single, basic bitches NTFS partition. Perfectly fine in Windows 7. Perfectly fine in Windows 10 before the rapeiversary update. Now inaccessible, showing as raw in disk management, and Windows is begging to format it.
Worse than the "lol that's a perfectly fine external drive you've plugged in and it works fine, but u wanna scan and fix anyway?" shit because the data is actually inaccessible on Windows 10.
I'm still on Win 7 and have made sure that I review all updates before applying them.
Now I'm not sure I want any further updates for Win 7 either. The malware risk seems to be lower than the risk of Microsoft trashing my computer.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
DirectX 12, for games, is the ONLY reason to ever touch Windows 10.
The only reason to touch Windows Server 2016, the new shares/spaces/whatevers, is fucking broken as shit. Stay far, far, far away.
For those needing to manage Windows 10 clients via SCCM, you can manually install the Configuration Manager client using SCCM 2012 SP1 (and maybe older shit, but if you're on SCCM pre 2012, it's time to upgrade) by skipping the prereq for the Windows Update agent.
ccmsetup.exe /skipprereq:windowsupdateagent30-x64.exe
This can be done automatically via a script or GPO, it's just "manual" in the sense that it's not the global auto install offered within SCCM.
"It seems like MS has accepted that they've lost the battle (if not the war) as far as Linux as a cloud-based app server is concerned."
either that or they are "embracing" it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde)
This is Microsoft's revenge for seeing another operating system on the side during your anniversary!
Win 10 ain't done 'til Linux won't run!"
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
The initial Win7->10 upgrade actually left my Grub and Linux stuff alone. I wasn't too worried as it was basically a toy installation but it was still nice to see.
What I've heard about the AU is that it just unchecks "Time to display list of operating systems" in startup options but otherwise everything is in place.
Anyway I'm in no rush to get the update so I killed the update service and will just wait until the dust settles.
I tried to upgrade yesterday, my machine has Windows 10 Enterprise and Ubuntu 16.04 on two separate disks. The machine rebooted while updating but would get stuck trying to install (once at 19%, the next time at 0%). To recover I had to power off via the power button and when booting into Windows again it would recover to a previous restore point automatically. Ubuntu stayed intact. After checking for the update again Microsoft have removed the option so it no longer appears as an available update, presumably until they either fix it or else as part of a staggered update mechanism.
stuff like this is why i never install two different OS types on one disk. one physical disk per OS family.
Are we sure this isn't related to the widespread FOSSHUB infection by an MBR virus (Classic Shell, Audacity)? That seemed to happen at the exact same time as the Anniversary update and people who first posted about the update borking their drives first claimed it was Win10 before realizing it was the infected executable. From the article it wasn't absolutely clear that this only affected Linux partitions.
Any word on how it works on a Mac with bootcamp? I did the update earlier and am concerned about the OSX side. I don't really have resources to fix something like this while deployed. I'm primarily using the Windows boot anyway for Steam (I am Setsuna!), but don't want to lose my Mac interface completely for the next 5+ months.
My recent attempt to try Ubuntu failed because of dual-booting problems. I'm seriously considering getting a pure Linux box, maybe from System 76 or some other Linux place, and keeping it and Windows completely separate, so MS can't fsck with the good stuff.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
One of my disk partition tables makes gparted crash... I had to disconnect the drive to install Fedora.
fdisk however, doesn't complaint one bit.
I put in the update and windows could not find the windows partition on reboot. Had to do a fresh install, Many pots of coffee and 13 hours later here I am wishing I had installed Fedora.
At this point in time I feel I have every reason to believe that Microsoft wants to move towards hegemony over Linux in general, as part of a long-term plan to completely dominate the desktop OS market; they want ALL desktop OSes to be Microsoft OSes. You all complain about 'systemd' right now? Just wait until Microsoft gets done with Linux, it'll be the same malware/spyware/botnet that Windows is. This has to be fought tooth-and-nail to the last. This goes way beyond just hating Microsoft.
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
"Microsoft is fucking over anyone who puts another OS on their computer."
You misspelt "Windows 10" as "another OS" there, friend.
If you disagree, post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like.
either that or they are "embracing" it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik... [wikipedia.org]
That was my first thought, too.
they want ALL desktop OSes to be Microsoft OSes
I know of at least one desktop OS they won't co-opt...
Oh, shut the fuck up, you whiny bitch. Booting multiple operating systems on the same drive has NEVER been reliable, even between multiple Linux distros. Idiots and poor slobs dual boot. People with brains and money use a separate hard drive.
Really? Perhaps you don't have an OS with a decent (third-party) BootLoader/Boot Menu available, like macOS does.
Windows has never played well with others in a multi-boot environment.
Really? It works great on Macs, coexisting with macOS just fine.
Microsoft has a utility to repair core OS files.
Just look up "Using System File Checker (SFC) To Fix Issues"
A common problem with Windows 10 is the start menu will stop opening. This is caused by Windows 10 corrupting its core OS files. (Please note: it is Windows 10 corrupting the core files, not any other program) The exact case(s) for when this happens is not known. It is suspected that Windows Update is one of the main causes of this problem.
I personally ran into this on my Surface Pro 3. The easy way of fixing this is to use SFC with Windows Update to download the needed files. The only problem is that most people that run into this problem also have their Windows Update files corrupted. SFC can be used without Windows Update, but by that point it was easier for me to do a Windows Refresh and just re-install all my Win32 applications and fix up my settings. A refresh on my main machine would be almost unthinkable because of how much time it would take to rebuild.
Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon what's the difference? All steal money from devs and control with walled gardens.
I'm not saying this would happen, but for instance: Who would have guessed that some little cable company called 'Comcast' would end up owning one of the Big Three television networks and Universal Studios? Microsoft is a big company with lots of assets. If Apple fucked up the wrong way, they could find themselves being bought out by Microsoft. Then there wouldn't be anyone else left that mattered. Of course, theoretically, the federal government wouldn't allow such an out-and-out monopoly like that.. but what if Microsoft instead decided to block as much interoperability with Apple's OSes as they could? Apple already runs on hardware that could run Windows. With the right combination of evil dick moves they could more or less, theoretically, force Apple and/or Apple users to use Windows.
Note again that I'm not saying any of this would actually happen. But it's not as far-fetched as one might think.
Of course I'd rather have NO computer than be forced to use some shitty OS that spies on me constantly, countermands my choices and decisions, and in general can be taken over completely by some asshole corporation like Microsoft, but sadly that's just me. My first computer was built with perfboard, a soldering iron, and my own nascent knowledge of electronics. I can live without one if I have to, or at least without any Internet-connected computers. But most people are hopelessly stuck with it all. We all just have to keep fighting the whole thing and never give up. Microsoft can't be allowed to become the de-facto owners of everyone's computers, and be allowed to do whatever the fuck they want. It's just WRONG.
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
Last Friday, after one too many "Microsoft disabled X" and "Microsoft changed Y", I have moved my two Windows 10 Pro licenses from the hardware to virtual machines. They can bork themselves all they want, the worst it would happen I have to scp the backup back and untar it. This is getting too far...
Unless you absolutely have to, do _not_ install Linux and Windows on the same physical hard drive. For many purposes (e.g. basic coding and web stuff) a lightweight Linux distro will run just fine off a USB memory stick (I use Ultra Fit's in either the 32GB or 64GB size). Then, if you are buying a laptop and you're a techie, get something where it is trivially easy to swap out either the hard drive (i.e. not Asus crap where you have to remove the keyboard to get at the hard drive), or the optical drive. For example, boot Windows of one hard drive, and stick another in the optical drive bay. If you have a desktop, you have room for more than one physical drive. This also means that, during critical stuff like OS installs, you can physically disconnect your Linux drive so that Windows cannot get at it. My favourite example of Redmond silliness involved Windows 2000 appearing to enumerate partitions one way in the partitioning part of setup, and another way for the formatting part. Basically, on my dual boot drive, Windows 2000 setup ended up formatting the wrong partition. I say it had cocked up when I noticed the size of the partition it was formatting: my shared data drive. By the time I had stopped the process, of course, the FATs were already overwritten.
John_Chalisque
Troll? Misinformed? Astroturfer?
There are so many possible reasons for your post. Truth isn't one of them. I've run multiple Linux installs for decades now. Systemd is the second time I've had any problem. The earlier one was with Red Hat's security lock-down. Both were easily worked around without a re-install (though I did need to hand-specify the partition locations.)
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
Further suggesting that this problem is intentional
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
I blithely updated my windows 10 / Mint 17.3 dual boot system and it's running fine. It did have a couple of attempts at downloading the Windows files and rebooted several times back into linux because that is the default OS. I just rebooted manually into Windows each time and it kept on trucking until successful completion.
I assume I am being rewarded for clean living.
You know what else was awesome? How Microsoft took this opportunity to re-install the Get Office app (how I missed those nag screens informing me that my copy of Office 2010 just isn't shiny enough), and to put the Edge browser and MS Store icons back on my task bar. Because, my goodness, I had completely lost those apps. Thank goodness Microsoft is looking out for me by making sure I can find these valuable services again.
*tosses them into recycle bin once again*
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
No sign of systemd here, yet. :)
Indeed. Detecting partitions and partition types (and then leaving them alone) is _easy_. This is intentional, no way around that. Oh, sure, they will have a very good cover-story for their criminal act (computer-sabotage) and who, if not Microsoft, will get away with a claim of incompetence, but this cannot be accidental.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Oh? I must have imagined the last decade where I have been doing that reliably on multiple computers. The only problems ever where happening (not to me) when MS upgraded their sabotage-strategies. They are nothing but a criminal enterprise in this regard.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Further suggesting that this problem is intentional
Messing with Steam. Now effing up Linux partitions. Of course this is intentional corporate policy. It just reminds me why I will never deliberately give MS a single cent of money. It also reminds me to use alternatives to Office, such as Google Docs, LaTeX, and Open Office.
This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when first he appears as a protector - Plato (423 to 327 BC)
Windows 10 sucks, this whole community agrees. Stop posting stories on windows 10. Stop.
We could all do that, or the easier option is that you could just simply stop reading those stories.
Surely it is newsworthy that the update is completely deleting partitions. Why would you want to deny those that could be affected from being able to take preventative action simply bcause you are sick of hearing about Windows 10?
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
To me it looks like Microsoft are repeating decades-old mistakes all over again, just with a new skin. Of course Microsoft now is quite a different company from back then with completely new people, so the people with experience from past mistakes have since retired.
But overall it seems to me that Microsoft is now under a great deal of stress from the Linux community where many different vendors uses Linux and other open source platforms in their solutions. Especially in embedded technology where the user never see the operating system. And this is an area where profits for closed source previously have been high. Consumer sector has seldom caused any profits on operating system side, at best it's a break-even situation. But if Windows never was offered to private consumers then it would be a lot harder to sell it into the enterprise sector.
Anyway - by making the use of alternate operating systems complicated Microsoft tries to keep people from reaping the benefits of the alternatives and make it hard for people with low technical skills to use the alternatives in order to make it harder to also push for alternatives in the corporate world. But if they grab to hard then the market slips through their fingers, and that's what might be happening with their Win10 push. Also see the Office 365 - a solution where you as a user may no longer be in control of your information but instead trust it to Microsoft.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
That would cause Windows to break my profile among other things though. My user profile is stored on a separate drive, various other folders have other dedicated drives (ie: temp / cache) etc. Not to mention Windows would probably then reassign drive letters too.
Honestly, it's not that big of a deal to restore the files from scratch, I always have backups of everything. Ended up reinstalling Windows in the end and doing it cleanly which took my automation about 110 minutes with my automation, including it automatically reinstalling all my applications.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
I'm platform agnostic, I can't imagine ever being limited to a single OS, sorry.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
Well, yes. On engineering level stupidity is a distinct possibility. But on higher management-level it is far less so. One way to do very hard to prove sabotage in this way is to make sure the people responsible for the specific task are incompetent and arrogant. Not hard to do.
I do agree that MS may have overdone the push this time though. One can hope.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Let this be a lesson to all. Never trust dual boot systems and take a fucking backup every now and again.
Build a Man a Fire, and He'll Be Warm for a Day. Set a Man on Fire, and He'll Be Warm for the Rest of His Life.
If Apple's ~210 Billion in cash reserves it to be believed, it seems more plausible that Apple could make a bid for controlling interest of Microsoft, given Microsoft's current market cap of ~434B (as of June 30th). Though I somewhat struggle as to what they would actually want out of that deal, besides Office and the Azure infrastructure.
It's there. It's just called lsass.exe...
In some cases, which might with the right arguments include this, you can convince the court that the it's not important as the only way to be sufficiently incompetent is intentional effort--that the only way they could not know is by intentionally not checking. (It sounds like this will hit recovery partitions too, and those are almost certainly common enough that M$ should be making sure those will keep working...)
It sounds like there may be a war on proprietary recovery partitions used by some of the OEM setups and taking out dual boot capability as collateral damage.
Should we be chanting "One OS to rule them all. One OS to bring them all. And in the darkness bind them."
I've been very miffed since I found out the activation for Windows 7 has been broken. If you try to re-load an OEM copy of Windows 7 after changing a hard drive; you get a failed activation. When you wade through the phone activation attempt; you are told to buy a new COA as you obviously have a pirate COA as it was installed previously. You then get transferred to the Microsoft Store to buy a new COA by somone with a musical accent from somewhere in the Indian sub continent. You then spend a half hour to an hour and a half of listening to a recording telling you to go buy Windows 10 from the Microsoft Website before you are disconnected. I'm persistent, I went through the dance three times with the exact same results before I concluded that Microsoft intentionally has broken the ability to re-install Windows 7 on legacy hardware. (A ten year old data collection unit that needs proprietary software that WILL NOT work on Windows 10)
NRRPT/RCT
I had a Corsair SSD give up the ghost in a spectacular way once.
It BSOD'ed Windows 7 and when I tried to look at the partitions on an Ubuntu boot disc it was empty and all zeroes.
Turned out it was the drive's fault. Returned it and they sent me a new one (probably with a firmware update to fix the bug).
Interesting. It would be nice if MS got kicked where it hurts for this. Lets hope somebody finds sufficient motivation and proof to do this. Killed recovery partitions partitions are bad. In most cases the device manufacturer will then have to send out some recovery-media to people that need to recover their machines and that costs money.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Dual booting Windows 95 and DOS worked.(Provided you use Fat16)
Dual booting dual booting any version of Ubuntu works.
The Fedora upgrade process creates a temporary entry in grub to load an upgrade OS that upgrades your normal OS.
Dual booting most modern version of Windows works.(With the exception of Windows NT 5 and 2000 b/c of file system incompatibilities)
Windows fully supports loading Linux from it's boot manger, although most users use grub instead.
Who is L.S. and why is he an ass?
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Jiddu Krishnamurti
Well, at least with open source, if Microsoft tries to co-opt it or exert too much influence you'll get forks with the Microsoft stuff stripped out. With Apple and their propriety, closed system if Microsoft gets their tentacles in, you won't have much choice except to switch completely away from Apple.
Besides, Apple and Microsoft are more friendly towards each other than either is towards Linux. Microsoft makes Office for Mac, but not for Linux. And Apple makes it a lot easier to get a Mac to boot Windows than it is to boot Linux on one.
People who've apparently never heard of gparted use a separate hard drive.
TFTFY.
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