Windows 10: 250mg recovery partition ?

Hard to believe a little ecig charging would cause all of this but I do believe it was inserted in the same usb port used to install 10 with :/
Very weird shit
F12 didn't even see either of the drives *Mad

I almost reset the bios to default but had no idea what other issues that might cause ?

 

I guess that's why I'm not attempting to do a dual boot on my desktop. I just don't want to mess it up; too much important stuff on it.

 

Running or installing another os on it's own drive isn't really dual booting per-say unless both drives are always connected at the same time,
Which is really the most perplexing thing about not having the reserve partition/ boot manager installed when the drive does not have any other partitions on the drive
Something really fishy about that :/

The other fishy part is why a simple usb charger would cause such a mess with either drive not being detected at all *Smile

 

Yes, it's not the conventional Windows dual boot where you get the boot menu to chose the OS. My plan was to use my BIOS quick boot menu to select which drive to boot from. Everything was fine until both drives were connected at the same time. Windows 10 did "something" to my 8.1 install. My next test install will be a 10 only clean install on my laptop.

 

I just downloaded build 9879 and have it on a bootable usb
I'll load that sucker without an internet connection and see what happens and if the reserve partition is created on the same hdd
It did in the past like to see what it does in the present *Wink

If nothing changes I may do VMware 32 bit'ers in the future for the current and newer builds my mother board isn't compatible with a 64 bit vm *Sad
Allot of people don't like the reserve partition but it's supposed to sort of replace the machines bios and mine are very old 2009.

 

I was correct build 9879 installed the 350mb reserve partition *Tongue

 

Now post a shot of Disk Management.

 

Persistence I like that *Tongue

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Well, Thrash, Now I'm gonna have to do the clean install of 9926.

Gotta download first.

 

I'm actually downloading a new build now via the preview builds settings,
I have no idea of which build it is it didn't say :/

 

Owe this is lovely now I have 2 build 9926 added another one that's 450mb *Confused
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Probably cuz you did it via updates.

 

I fail to see why that would make a difference I would expect the update to respect the original reserve partition not make a new one that looks like dual mode,
Got some images 10 will not boot yet again

By a small miracle 7 did *Smile
Not sure for how long though I did automatically use F12 and the ssd was listed so I did toggle to it and boom it booted,

Looks like 9926 is not meant to be this is the third attempt or strike three.

 

Only one came out enough to actually read it *Sad
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What happened to your other disk?