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How about installing it into a VM eg VirtualBox.
Might do the job.
Francis
On Friday, August 7, 2015 at 11:18:57 AM UTC, Brian Carey wrote:
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> Hi Everyone,
>
> I had similar issues with dual booting Windows.
> Don't really see myself using it that much so not really that interested
> in devoting a partition to it anymore.
>
> I have been looking into creating a persistent Windows 10 USB just to have
> it there to play with.
> Any thoughts? Would it be usable? Worth the effort?
>
> Brian
>
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 12:02 PM, 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]
>> <javascript:>> 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
>> >
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