View Single Post
  #4  
Old February 22nd 19, 03:46 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Panthera Tigris Altaica
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 102
Default Partitioning problem

On 2019-02-11 15:13, Big Bad Bob wrote:
On 02/08/19 12:56, Panthera Tigris Altaica wrote:
My personal laptop has a 1TB spinning drive. I bought the laptop new
over six years ago. It was, then, fast, with a quad core i7, and 8 GB
RAM. The HD came with three partitions:

1 the emergency partition, under 50 GB with the emergency boot files
2 the OS boot partition, 390 GB, with Win 7 Pro. (I upgraded it to
Ultimate)
3 the data partition, about 500 GB, no OS.


snip

So how do I make the Win 7 partition NOT a system partition?


I suggest a clean install, from optical media.Â* that should do it, and
will let you control everything.Â* Just re-do ALL of the partitions.Â* And
keep windows 7.Â* Win-10-nic STINKS.

you could do this with a new hard drive more easily, I would think,
keeping the old one around as a backup.


A clean install would mean reinstalling all my apps, which would be
painful. I don't have installers for everything, and some applications,
including some of the ones I don't have installers for, were made by
vendors which no longer exist. Others, including apps I do have
installers for, have annoying licensing setups. (Adobe. Not Creative
Cloud, because I am NOT paying $60/month rent.) I _really_ want to avoid
hainv to do a complete reinstall.

I booted up from a USB drive with a 3rd-party partitioning tool
installed, killed the Win 7 partition, rebooted... the system screamed
about BCD. I booted up with my WinPE USB, fixed BCD (again) and
rebooted. It seems to work now. Will use Disk Management to allocate the
empty space on the drive.

This was way too much trouble. The last time I had to clear a partition
on a Mac it took a matter of seconds to do and minutes to clean up
afterwards and I didn't have to reboot even once. It's been a while
since I had to clear a partition on a Linux system, but that wasn't as
painful as this was. Microsoft goes out of their way to make life
difficult. If it wasn't for the fact that a lot of my apps have no Linux
equivalent, I'd have done a complete install, all right: a complete
install of Ubuntu or Mint or Fedora.
Ads