Re: Win10 and Linux
Conor Daly <[email protected]>
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If you had a record of your linux partitions you could try to re-make them. They'll quite likely have all of the data there but you'd have to make sure you got the partition boundaries exactly right. Conor On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 10:59:21PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Aaron Hastings thought: > Yes. It wiped both of my Linux partitions. Gone. Well, "unallocated", but > not even worth attempting a recovery. This was the straight Windows 7 -> > Windows 10 in-place upgrade. > > Couldn't believe it. I mean, I expected the MBR to be overwritten with the > Windows bootloader. That's an easy fix; just boot into a Live USB and run > `grub-install /dev/sda` and you're laughing. Nope, completely wiped. I saw > a few other reports on Reddit of the same thing, so it seems I wasn't just > unlucky. > > The funniest part? It didn't even install its bootloader, so I couldn't > boot into anything. Ridiculous. > > Aaron > > On 31/07/2015 01:03, Bacon Zombie wrote: > > I installed the preview on an extra partition. > > Already had xubuntu and Win7 already installed. > > Now when I choose Windows from Grub I get the option for Win7 or X. > > On Jul 30, 2015 5:45 PM, "Anders Holm" <[1][email protected]> wrote: > > M$ Win has historically always wanted to own the MBR, so I'd expect it > to still do that. Keep yer USB recovery handy ... and possibly save > out a copy of MBR (etc.) before upgrading??? > > //anders > > On 30/07/2015 16:40, Gerard Cunningham wrote: > > Anyone had any experience of upgrading to Win10 on a dual boot > machine yet? Curious to know if I should brace myself for full linux > reinstall, whether win10 affects grub/partitions etc > > -- > Irish Linux Users Group > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "ILUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, > send an email to [2][email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [3][email protected]. > Visit this group at > [4]http://groups.google.com/a/linux.ie/group/ilug/. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > [5]https://groups.google.com/a/linux.ie/d/msgid/ilug/CACcBZUKVZQAqC4hq1DKyP0gT%2BiAHBWmQzdmWPMSLwZxVgTYd9w%40mail.gmail.com. > > -- > Irish Linux Users Group > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "ILUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [6][email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [7][email protected]. > Visit this group at > [8]http://groups.google.com/a/linux.ie/group/ilug/. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > [9]https://groups.google.com/a/linux.ie/d/msgid/ilug/55BA4698.9080103%40gmail.com. > > -- > Irish Linux Users Group > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "ILUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [10][email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [11][email protected]. > Visit this group at [12]http://groups.google.com/a/linux.ie/group/ilug/. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > [13]https://groups.google.com/a/linux.ie/d/msgid/ilug/CAPz7E53EfGOG_8RwGTsuaZ4-_1BufS6wXdkVeaObaBbU%3DBp-qw%40mail.gmail.com. > > -- > Irish Linux Users Group > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ILUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [14][email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [15][email protected]. > Visit this group at [16]http://groups.google.com/a/linux.ie/group/ilug/. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > [17]https://groups.google.com/a/linux.ie/d/msgid/ilug/55C3D8B9.108%40aaronhastings.me. > > References > > Visible links > 1. mailto:[email protected] > 2. mailto:[email protected] > 3. mailto:[email protected] > 4. http://groups.google.com/a/linux.ie/group/ilug/ > 5. https://groups.google.com/a/linux.ie/d/msgid/ilug/CACcBZUKVZQAqC4hq1DKyP0gT%2BiAHBWmQzdmWPMSLwZxVgTYd9w%40mail.gmail.com > 6. mailto:[email protected] > 7. mailto:[email protected] > 8. http://groups.google.com/a/linux.ie/group/ilug/ > 9. https://groups.google.com/a/linux.ie/d/msgid/ilug/55BA4698.9080103%40gmail.com > 10. mailto:[email protected] > 11. mailto:[email protected] > 12. http://groups.google.com/a/linux.ie/group/ilug/ > 13. https://groups.google.com/a/linux.ie/d/msgid/ilug/CAPz7E53EfGOG_8RwGTsuaZ4-_1BufS6wXdkVeaObaBbU%3DBp-qw%40mail.gmail.com > 14. mailto:[email protected] > 15. mailto:[email protected] > 16. http://groups.google.com/a/linux.ie/group/ilug/ > 17. https://groups.google.com/a/linux.ie/d/msgid/ilug/55C3D8B9.108%40aaronhastings.me?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer -- Conor Daly <[email protected]> -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/G/S/O d+(-) s:+ a+ C++(+) UL++++ US++ P>++ L+++>++++ E--- W++ !N PS+ PE Y+ PGP? tv(-) b+++(+) G e+++(*) h-- r+++ z++++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ http://www.geekcode.com/ http://www.ebb.org/ungeek/ -- Irish Linux Users Group --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ILUG" group. 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