Windows 10: Need Help With Windows Upgrade please

I have Windows 10 Pro build 240 installed (and activated) currently, but I want to update to (at minimum) the November Update, currently my start menu is 'broken' because after upgrading from Win 7 I had 512+ shortcuts

I have a single (500GB) Hard disk which has been partitioned to create C & D drives ... my User Data and Post (Win) Install software are on D drive

If I do a clean install, will that wipe the entire Hard disk, or just the System (C) partition? I'm asking so I know what I need to backup .. (the whole drive, or just the C partition)

Additionally, will a clean install fix my Win 10 Start Menu?

:)

 

Calendar appointments automatically delete after two weeks on Window 7 HD7

over the weekend I syn an ipohne 3 with actisyn and it all my appointments dating back to 2007 were on my iphone device. therefore any and all suggestions that its a server or exchange limitation is BS. Microsoft please look into it for your self and
stand behind the product you sell. Limitation on calendars for 2 weeks is ludicrous. HTC is right. Its an OS issue.

 

Calendar appointments automatically delete after two weeks on Window 7 HD7

Just finished speaking to HTC support and confirmed that the HD7 Phone does not have settings to control the calendar settings. Hence you can not leave calendar entries on unit more than 2 weeks. W7 OS automatically deletes entries. Entries stay on
your server/outlook but can not be viewed on device. If you manually add an appointment which is two weeks past on your device it appears on Outlook/server but not on device. They auto delete after two weeks. WHY WHY WHY This is useless. HTC advised that
this is Windows OS. NEED AN UPDATE. Should have stayed with the Blackberry.

 

You can delete all partitions, or just the OS one. I recommend imaging both partitions.

I'm not familiar with your start menu problem. 10240 was supposed to have a 512 entry limit, which was increased to 2048 in the 1511 (aka 10586) build.

 

apologies, it was supposed to read "512+" not 52+

have edited and fixed the typo

 

as an alternative, is it possible to (clean) install to an external drive from within my current Windows, then just swap out the drive and plug the newly installed Windows drive in?

I have limited Sata ports, else I would just drop the larger (non-partitioned) drive into box and do a clean install to it

 

That will not work. Just creates usb installation stick using MS media creation tool, insert it and run setup.exe.

The upgrade is pretty much a reinstall anyway, so hopefully it will work fine. You can boot from usb stick and clean install if you prefer, only overwriting C drive. Back up D partition first as crap happens.

 

Am I correct in assuming that a clean install would erase any folder junctions currently existing between C & D drives?
(at present, C:/Users is actually D:/Users, but I would like to reset Windows to defaults and retain the data from D if I can so I can selectively recover the stuff I need)

If I clean install, overwriting only C drive, and initializing/installing my needed Apps
then use a (reputable) third Party program to backup the freshly installed C-drive
and later obtain a larger SATA drive

will restoring (in preference to cloning) the backed up fresh C-drive to the new
SATA drive effectively give me back a Pristine Windows 10 Installation?