Windows 10: During upgrade to win10 used hard disk as the flash boot and 20 years of all my family...

You guys there, be aware, there is no warning that it will format the usb device.

20 years of information deleted in seconds.

Still can't forgive myself not uploading all information to a cloud.

:)

 

How to make a flash drive boot disk?

I still suggest Ultimate Boot CD, I have the link a few posts back. You can boot to DOS and run the flashing utilities right off your hard disk, it's safer too because you don't have to worry about a corrupt floppy.

 

Running Win10 pro clobbers Win7 hard disk

Obviously I have to be more detailed about the configuration:

All my desktops and notebooks have the same configuration:

4 partitions, named Boot, Application, Data and User Data.

Step 1: To be able to test Win 10 I made a 1to1 copy of my Win7 hard disk to another hard disk and disabled the original installation. After that I made an update from Win7 Ult to Win8 pro on the copied disk, as mentioned I have three Win8 installion packs
bought but never used it after testing!

Step2: Downloading Win 10pro and upgrade the Win8 installation, all this takes time but Win10 worked as expected.

Step 3: Enable in BIOS hard disk with Win7Ult, reboot win10, 2nd hard disk is correctly recognized and Win10 is working.

Step 4: Switching off hard disk (already in an switchable environment) with Win10 installation and reboot hard disk with Win7Ult, error message shows up, that the partitions have to bee checked!

I hope this will clarify the subject

Regards

Luigi

 

Running Win10 pro clobbers Win7 hard disk

Obviously I have to be more detailed about the configuration:

All my desktops and notebooks have the same configuration:

4 partitions, named Boot, Application, Data and User Data.

Step 1: To be able to test Win 10 I made a 1to1 copy of my Win7 hard disk to another hard disk and disabled the original installation. After that I made an update from Win7 Ult to Win8 pro on the copied disk, as mentioned I have three Win8 installion packs
bought but never used it after testing!

Step2: Downloading Win 10pro and upgrade the Win8 installation, all this takes time but Win10 worked as expected.

Step 3: Enable in BIOS hard disk with Win7Ult, reboot win10, 2nd hard disk is correctly recognized and Win10 is working.

Step 4: Switching off hard disk (already in an switchable environment) with Win10 installation and reboot hard disk with Win7Ult, error message shows up, that the partitions have to bee checked!

I hope this will clarify the subject

Regards

Luigi

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