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well it hella hosed one of my PCs and its been next to impossible to even load/boot up let alone get into any repair/recovery options.
 
flight said:
I find it extremely odd that I'm encountering precisely 0 of the issues that a lot of people seem to be experiencing with Windows 10. Maybe I'm just lucky not to run into anything, yet?
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Well, at this point, Windows 10 is more than stable enough for the majority of machines in use, but there are still exceptions, and sometimes the unexpected happen. Don't think I have seen problems with current releases of Windows 10.

Speaking of Windows 10, it sure makes my phone put out a lot more heat than back when it was on 8.1. Something seems to keep running in the background.
 
windows 10 is not yet that as good as win 7. But we will see improvements. Yet.
 
I don't think I'm going to be 'upgrading' to 10 until the very last minute. My original attempt at upgrading resulted in a trainwreck that made me have to revert back to 8.1. It appears my hardware was not exactly prepared for the upgrade and now I can't be bothered enough to try again. I don't mind 8.1 anyway.
 
Kibou said:
I don't think I'm going to be 'upgrading' to 10 until the very last minute. My original attempt at upgrading resulted in a trainwreck that made me have to revert back to 8.1. It appears my hardware was not exactly prepared for the upgrade and now I can't be bothered enough to try again. I don't mind 8.1 anyway.
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Yep, that's exactly how I feel with Windows 10 right now. I had to downgrade back to 8.1 after about two days because it didn't seem like 10 was compatible with my laptop. Although now might be different, I feel that using 8.1 is just as fine.
 
so I'm still waiting on an 12+ hour reboot of win10.. fun times.





NOT!
 
I actually upgraded to Windows 10 about a month or so ago and didn't revert this time! To be fair, I did a clean install and didn't encounter a lot of the quirks and issues I had last time I tried to do a straight upgrade.

It still has its little idiosyncrasies and things that take some getting used to, but overall it feels a bit snappier than 7 did, and I'm not really tempted to go back to 7 anymore. And it's of course a vast improvement over 8.
 
Rukario said:
so I'm still waiting on an 12+ hour reboot of win10.. fun times.





NOT!
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Speaking of jinxing things, one of my laptops failed updating massively and had to spend a lot of time rolling back. 2012 Sandy Bridge i5 laptop running Windows 7 :)
 
I finally found my power brick. So glad somebody turned it into the campus lost and found :)

Morkula said:
I actually upgraded to Windows 10 about a month or so ago and didn't revert this time! To be fair, I did a clean install and didn't encounter a lot of the quirks and issues I had last time I tried to do a straight upgrade.

It still has its little idiosyncrasies and things that take some getting used to, but overall it feels a bit snappier than 7 did, and I'm not really tempted to go back to 7 anymore. And it's of course a vast improvement over 8.
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Geoff, I better not be talking to you down the road and hear that you've downgraded :P
 
I just wish I could get into the advanced boot (repair / restore) options menu or that it would load the restore UI once in the desktop.

Damn thing won't even boot off the USB boot image :'(
 
Team Fail said:
Are you at least able to get to the login screen, or is it that screwed up? Hold the shift button while clicking Restart and you can go the Advanced Boot options screen.

I haven't had any issues with Windows 10 apart from licensing issues. I also haven't really touched Windows 10 ever since I installed 7 on my laptop, too. What came in the newest update that screwed over your computer?
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I know how to reboot it.. NOTHING works. set to reboot into safe mode.. nope won't load. boot it off the USB and nope same as before.. nothing loads. F8.. nope does nothing.
Right now its not getting past the black screen with blue 4-pane window and that spinner thing (well sometimes it just goes to black screen only).

I can only assume it was the last cumulative update.. released last mo or early this month... haven't used (powered up) this pc for a few weeks up to this point.
 
Team Fail said:
I don't think it does, because the key is tied to the motherboard and if it's OEM, it probably won't untie. I wonder if it'd work on a computer that had Windows 8 installed manually though...
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OEM licences definitely are tied to the motherboard, and the only other motherboard OEM keys would activate with are the exact same model - and you'll need to rely on phone activation in that case. Anything else, they can't activate - it's for life. Not sure what happens when they get upgraded into Windows 10 digital entitlements, though.

In addition, in that scenario, the "identical" motherboard must be obtained as a warranty or servicing replacement.

Rukario said:
I know how to reboot it.. NOTHING works. set to reboot into safe mode.. nope won't load. boot it off the USB and nope same as before.. nothing loads. F8.. nope does nothing.
Right now its not getting past the black screen with blue 4-pane window and that spinner thing (well sometimes it just goes to black screen only).

I can only assume it was the last cumulative update.. released last mo or early this month... haven't used (powered up) this pc for a few weeks up to this point.
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You're going to need a clean install to sort it out... and after that, probably a good idea to run HDD and memory diagnostics. Just in case.
 
Not happening as I can't get the installer to even load up (remember, the USB drive.. not loading)
 
Finally got the old Toshiba laptop and Samsung monitor sold tonight, and bought a pair of laptop RAM (Corsair ValueSelect 8GB DDR3L-1600, totalling 16GB)

I still have enough leftover money to buy more things, and I can still sell my excess old RAM and SSD... just have to wonder who to sell to, as I'm not getting the best quotes at second-hand PC parts buyers.
 
Team Fail said:
What about burning the installer to a DVD and booting from it as a Live CD?
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well same iso installer is on the flash drive.. it won't load so i'm gonna assume a dvd copy of it won't either.

finally got into the system restore app... restoring a March image to see if it fixes anything.. wish it luck.
 
Rukario said:
well same iso installer is on the flash drive.. it won't load so i'm gonna assume a dvd copy of it won't either.

finally got into the system restore app... restoring a March image to see if it fixes anything.. wish it luck.
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What tool were you using to write USB images? I've noticed that Rufus more often than not doesn't work - it's probably more preferably to use Microsoft's own media creation tool for Windows setup images.
 
I used the MS media creation tool.. works fine if i boot it from my win10 gaming rig

won't let me use the march image.. problem making shadow copy or some such bs. gonna stay with 420 image and run some disk tools to see what's up with the 100% usage on an otherwise idle disk.
 
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