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How to make a boot & repair disk Win 10
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Hash: SHA256 On 2016-01-06 12:40 PM, Jake wrote: Couldn't find anything useful on Google. Settings - Update & Security - Recovery That's if you only want to start fresh. For boot and repair disc, my suggestion is that you simply make an image of your desktop with Macrium Reflect and a USB restore key from within the same software. - -- Slimer EFF & OpenMedia member / IFAW, Mozilla & PETA supporter -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJWjWI+AAoJEIwFfgf/rr+u8KUH/1zZdI69oQy9+l5rmJ4ARZr1 60Gi0YC67bzUx4B+AaFxnU0YfeJ22MYF28LrxDAPgGo0M3saS9 9H3yPhHbNmgZCb DH0LveCf5clajiJjOJtdEUEEb1xk3ZDpUHB6hDnlg0/q4MCJQFQyBUXEsRvFRajn Wu8u2dHTqBNeq8fmcowco4XkuDmsNJQ57f7h7LeMYfNCzRtjM3 ZaSOtPn+7o2IM1 xJAMot3MYoeV9Si+u6ACxbYQAg4UZkJf3S7cFN/qZLbJu+utSWLzI9T2aGsmjHpL ePdMn5jwlolWfl+/w5YwzIGdJqC8L4LaVvmy9+HHenB3VR/CzXbU7ft/0eN3+Ac= =rhKE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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How to make a boot & repair disk Win 10
Jake wrote:
"Paul" wrote in message ... Jake wrote: Couldn't find anything useful on Google. Boot your Vista/Windows7/Windows8/Windows19 machine and run the browser, visit this page and get the MediaCreationTool. Match the OS version currently on your computer, before starting the download from the MediaCreationTool.exe . http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/softw...d/windows10ISO Paul Tks. for the input. After I posted I gave it another look. Burned a CD like this, using , "file History", click, "system image backup", click, "create a system repair disc". Eazy Peazy. http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=...947&FORM=VIRE1 It never hurts to have the full DVD, and before some version you might like is gone. If you don't have the Internet connection for such a download, visit your Public Library, book a machine for an hour, and attempt the download on their system. Paul |
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It's a good day to upgrade
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F Murtz wrote: John Doe wrote: F Murtz wrote: And things did not work properly on my Vaio laptop and it did not revert, had to wipe everything and reinstall 8.1 from scratch. That's what Macrium Reflect is for. Life can be so easy... Win 10 is supposed to do it for you and revert seamlessly if done before a couple of weeks Actually, no. The seamless part, is anything contained in Windows.old is preserved very nicely. No argument there. However, they modify the contents of your Program Files, removing programs as they see fit, which means an attempt to revert, they never put the contents of Program Files back. This is why we use backup software here. *Backup* before your "free" Upgrade installation! That's how you revert, with absolutely no issues at all. A backup copy will keep your Program Files, the way you had it. HTH, Paul So to give in to microsoft exhortation and update from a perfectly good working system with 128 GB SSD to a FREE one which does not work and stops what you had from working on revert You need to spend $100.00 or so for external memory to back up to. |
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It's a good day to upgrade
F Murtz wrote:
Paul wrote: F Murtz wrote: John Doe wrote: F Murtz wrote: And things did not work properly on my Vaio laptop and it did not revert, had to wipe everything and reinstall 8.1 from scratch. That's what Macrium Reflect is for. Life can be so easy... Win 10 is supposed to do it for you and revert seamlessly if done before a couple of weeks Actually, no. The seamless part, is anything contained in Windows.old is preserved very nicely. No argument there. However, they modify the contents of your Program Files, removing programs as they see fit, which means an attempt to revert, they never put the contents of Program Files back. This is why we use backup software here. *Backup* before your "free" Upgrade installation! That's how you revert, with absolutely no issues at all. A backup copy will keep your Program Files, the way you had it. HTH, Paul So to give in to microsoft exhortation and update from a perfectly good working system with 128 GB SSD to a FREE one which does not work and stops what you had from working on revert You need to spend $100.00 or so for external memory to back up to. You're using the same backup drive you were using for your *regular* backups. Especially with an SSD. They're prone to little surprises (from the CHKDSK perspective) a little more often than a regular disk. So I would increase the backup frequency until you have some time under your belt, to have observed the peculiarities of your particular setup. I got a 3TB Seagate drive for $120 CDN which transfers data at around 200MB/sec near the beginning of the disk. Coupled with a USB3 enclosure for $40 that also does 200MB/sec, that's sufficient to make a nice partner for an SSD. I would not trust the 3TB Seagate for 24/7 usage (due to previous Seagate issues), but as a backup drive with only hundreds of service hours on it, it should be fine for regular backups. I disconnect it when it is not being used. Currently, my best Seagate (ST3500418AS) has 27,256 hours on it. And it remains unexplained why that one is so much better than a pile of others I've had here. I would expect my 3TB drive to be dead several times over, with that many service hours on it. The motor on modern drives, the bearings are frictionless, until they run out of lubricant. But the failure mechanisms inside drives now, mean there are other things that make the drive unusable, before the motor goes out. And surface plating failures will become more common, as the flying height keeps dropping. Hitachi experimented with a drive a couple years ago, where the heads "skated" on the platter on purpose. And the heads were completely ground off, after 30 days of usage. Now, the fact they're doing an experiment like that, tells you where the flying height is headed. It'll be like a floppy diskette. There are existing patents which claim the flying height is 3nm. Which I find a little hard to believe. Paul |
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It's a good day to upgrade
F Murtz wrote:
Paul wrote: F Murtz wrote: John Doe wrote: F Murtz wrote: And things did not work properly on my Vaio laptop and it did not revert, had to wipe everything and reinstall 8.1 from scratch. That's what Macrium Reflect is for. Life can be so easy... Win 10 is supposed to do it for you and revert seamlessly if done before a couple of weeks Actually, no. The seamless part, is anything contained in Windows.old is preserved very nicely. No argument there. However, they modify the contents of your Program Files, removing programs as they see fit, which means an attempt to revert, they never put the contents of Program Files back. This is why we use backup software here. *Backup* before your "free" Upgrade installation! That's how you revert, with absolutely no issues at all. A backup copy will keep your Program Files, the way you had it. So to give in to microsoft exhortation and update from a perfectly good working system with 128 GB SSD to a FREE one which does not work and stops what you had from working on revert You need to spend $100.00 or so for external memory to back up to. I do wonder what Microsoft is thinking. Perhaps most users don't consider reinstalling Windows to be a big deal. But since you do... I also have a 128 GB SSD primary drive, for windows and programs. That plus a very inexpensive 750 GB (now it would be almost 2 GB) secondary drive for multimedia and backups. And Macrium Reflect for free. A huge conventional backup/secondary drive is about $55 (US). I've been backing up the primary Windows drive since about Windows 95. Never looking back. Microsoft restoration utilities were a complete waste of time. I went through very many different third-party backup utilities. Macrium Reflect has proved to be the best by far. It's been flawless. And I doubt it can be any easier. Unfortunately, seems that Macrium Reflect has removed the option to make a Linux recovery CD, so eventually I'll need to find some way to put their more recent version on a recovery drive. But, for now, the prior version recovery CD works perfectly. Therefore I would recommend using one of their prior versions for Windows 8.1. |
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It's a good day to upgrade
edevils wrote:
On 06/01/2016 13:56, F Murtz wrote: John Doe wrote: F Murtz wrote: And things did not work properly on my Vaio laptop and it did not revert, had to wipe everything and reinstall 8.1 from scratch. That's what Macrium Reflect is for. Life can be so easy... Win 10 is supposed to do it for you and revert seamlessly if done before a couple of weeks 1. Not always as "seamlessly" as it is *supposed* to be, even if done immediately after the upgrade. See what Paul says. 2. Reverting is a slower process than restoring a backup image. 3. You can restore the backup image whenever you like, while the reverting feature is limited to 31 days max. 4. Backing up is a good practice anyway, regardless of the upgrade. 5. In case your hard disk is nearly full, you may need to delete windows.old to free up disk space, and then regret having deleted it... when you need it! On the contrary, backing up to an external disk or pendrive or NAS... is not a problem. Is your Win 7 or 8 key still good after installing win 10. Or can you not get updates or key authorization after reverting back with a backup copy? |
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