Re: Win10 and Linux
rob mathews <[email protected]>
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I wanna take look at windows 10 - not at the cost of any linux partitions, obviously, but aren't we all curious? On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 3:00 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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: >> >> 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] >> > wrote: >> >>> 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? 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