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Regarding the recovery partition, do you have any hard data on W10 being just as near-sighted as previous editions, or was it just a precaution on your side?
I've only upgraded so far, and I am less than happy with the results, even after ignoring the failed 8->8.1 installation attempt that forced me to undo and then redo all over again. Now I'm planning to do a fresh install, and might as well have a look at the partitioning when I'm at it. However, I have Hybrid HD (SSHD) and from what I've heard, Windows installation is particularly picky with those: the standard installation may well be able to pick a good spot for the recovery partition, but I'm not so sure it will accept a partition defined anywhere, manually.
This makes me wonder, how does Windows even decide which partition to use for recovery data? Does it simply take the smallest partition available?
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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Creating a recovery partition was just a precaution on my part. Windows 7 definitely created the partition too small, and later, when it becomes an issue, you cannot expand the partition. Maybe 10 doesn't have this issue, but I wanted to be sure!
Read my message to Dave Kreskowiak above. Make sure you install this morning's 'Upgraded' version of 10! It may be prudent to wait a few days and download a new ISO file for the install disk. Hopefully Microsoft will also upgrade the ISO file to reflect the latest improvements!
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Quote: This makes me wonder, how does Windows even decide which partition to use for recovery data? Does it simply take the smallest partition available?
I am not sure. I ALWAYS create the small recovery partition first on a blank drive and mark it active. This has always worked for me.
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Makes sense. Thanks for your tips (including the one above).
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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I clicked upgrade, and it upgraded. I lost no apps, nothing. Not being sarcastic or mean, but it was the best experience I ever had with a windows install. (I keep all my data backed up, so I don't ever worry about hardware failures, or data loss).
Where there's smoke, there's a Blue Screen of death.
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Other than I'm posting from Firefox on my iPad!
Yes, Firefox is available for the iPad (and iPhone/iPod)
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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life could be easy
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Ah, so you're the one! There's always one!
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I thought "There could be only one"
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: Yes, Firefox is available for the iPad FireFox has always been available for Windows. Just saying.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I've just been sent an offer of a 99% discount on a pay what you want software package! How's that supposed to work then?
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Pay a lot less than you want?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It means you pay 99% less than you want to.
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Hook you in , then pay the rest via other means (high maintenance costs etc)
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There is a great mindset change operating at this very moment in the country, everybody seems to realize that we are to fight a war against terrorism.
Until now, there has been some events, but it was highly ridiculous and unorganized - even the 17 deaths in January.
I have been following the events until late in the night. Even if 150+ people died or will be dying in the next days, I think this is still pretty low in comparison to what could have happened : killing 80 people in a room filled with 1,500 people is not a highscore when four ak47 are firing, three suicide bombers near the Stade de France exploded with only a few people in the area whereas they could have waited for the 80,000 spectators to come out at the end of the soccer game.
But suicide bombers, simultaneous attacks, coordination, ... This is getting serious, I think the peace era we have been experiencing since the end of WW2 has come to an end.
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The peace was always an illusion, sadly. French armed forces have possibly been involved in fewer conflicts than UK troops who have been required to open fire in every year since 1945 but with France's NATO and UN responsibilities there's probably not much in it.
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This is NOT directed at you. I'm simply using the occasion of your post to put this out there:
Maybe now some of the peaceniks in Europe can understand how the U.S. felt after the attack in 2001.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I don't think so. The President of France did not say the the kinds of things he's saying now: "Act of war", "We will conduct a war that is pitiless."
And then there's the state of emergency, military in the streets, first curfew in Paris since WW2.
I think the feeling after this attack is much different.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I'm not sure there would have been much point in a state of emergency and military in the street of Paris after aeroplanes were flown into buildings in America.
Wouldn't really have achieved much.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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And your point is?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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The 2001 attacks made Americans realise how the English felt about the IRA (heavily funded by the Americans).
Terrorism originated along time before 2001.
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Again, I don't think so because the IRA attacks used to be on a smaller scale.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Wow.So Some terrorism is ok. So the Manchester Bomb injured 212 people. The Omagh bomb killed 29. But this is OK because it's small scale? So how many need to die to make it real terrorism?
And you Americans would be OK if the British subsidised a Terrorist attack on American soil if it killed only 29 or injured 212 because that would be small scale?
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I didn't say terrorism is OK, you said that. I said the feeling after this attack is different.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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