Windows 10: your updates are bad and you should feel bad

hi, i just wanted to put it out there that i had my computer on sleep and went to do something for a bit while i had photoshop and an unsaved file open. then my garbage, terrible os started updating. i woke it from sleep, and it was on my lock screen except it wouldn't let me in because it was preparing my update, and then my computer proceeds to restart itself. making me lose all my files.


so in conclusion, the fact that i can't bar my computer from forcing updates on me at the worst possible time is the worst thing ever, and i am convinced you have monkeys with single digit iqs in whichever department thought this was a good idea.

:)

 

Nokia: bad software, bad support, bad system, bad, bad, bad!

Nokia: bad software, bad support, bad system, bad, bad, bad!

 

Bad Trader

My bad, that's a typo. It's C0 stepping.

 

HDD Bad Sector

Hi Nataniel!

I am not sure what your question is exactly, but one thing I'd recommend for sure will be to look for a replacement drive since there is already a bad sector on your current one.

Basically there are two kinds of bad sectors - hardware and software:

• Hardware ones are caused by physical damage or becoming magnetically fixed, and they are unrepairable. In short, once they appear it's only a matter of time (no way to say how long) until the HDD fails.
• Software bad sectors on the other hand occur when something called an Error Correction Code (ECC) doesn't match the contents of the hard drive. These can be repaired by overwriting the data on the drive with zeroes (a.k.a. low level formatting) and sometimes
  by running a **chkdsk [write the letter of the drive:] /r** in the CMD.

As for getting the information from the drive if one of the partitions fail, most likely you won't be able to, which is why I'd suggest to make a regular backup of your most important data.

Hope this helps and feel free to ask any questions you may have.