On 13/07/16 20:38, Doug wrote:
On 07/13/2016 07:47 PM, Robin Laing wrote:
I need to do the windows 10 upgrade on a dual boot laptop. Any
serious worries I need to watch out for?
Thank you in advance.
Robin
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I did this twice. In both cases I had a dual-boot Windows plus Linux /
and /home and swap. In one case it worked perfectly. In the other case,
it turned the two Linux partitions (but not swap) into one big
"unallocated" partition. I never knew why. I did not try to rescue the
"unallocated" partition--it might have had the files and data buried in
it, but I don't know. So my best advice to you is to backup anything
you want to keep onto a USB drive or something before you do it. And of
course, Windows will almost certainly wipe out your
dual-boot, so you will have to set that back up. (Windows can't seem to
install anything big without rebooting a time or two, so it sets
up its own boot manager.) Oh, I tried to do it one other time, with some
poorly documented program that was supposed to let
Windows operate the dual-boot function. This time I wound up losing
Windows 7, so I had nothing to upgrade from. Altho I really
hardly ever use Windows, there are one or two things that I need it for,
and I usually need it on _that_ machine, so I bought a new
Win 10-Pro disk and installed it, and then reinstalled Linux. Phooey!
--doug
Hello Doug,
Thank you.
I guess I will get prepared to do an install if needed. You confirmed
my thoughts.
I need to upgrade the machine to Fedora 24 so I thought I would kill two
birds with one stone and as I am prepared for Windows to screw things
up, I will let it go first.
I tried to get windows boot manager to work as well with no success. It
happened when I needed the computer for work. It was a failure. At
least the Linux boot was good. That machine now has no windows.
Robin
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