Windows 10 upgrade

[girardhenri at free.fr]

I upgraded many times windows 10 from w 7 dual boot with linux, I never 
had problems with grub.
But at the end I left w 10 because after few updates three of my 5 
computers broke on w 10 (quiet old pc = 5 years) and no much ressources, 
I left one with w 10 and it works fine.

Le 28/04/2016 02:16, Doug a écrit :
>
> I have had two different experiences upgrading to Windows 10: In one 
> case, I had Win 8.2 on sda1 and PCLOS on sda5 and sda6. When I did the 
> upgrade, I found that Windows had
>
> made the two Linux partitions into one big  unallocated one! For some 
> reason, it left the swap partition (sda8) alone.  On another machine, 
> It upgraded Win7 to Win 10 without damaging the
>
> Linux partitions. Of course I had to recreate the dual-boot login. 
> Finally, altho I very seldom boot into Windows, I was trying to get a 
> B-size scanner to work, so I tried installing what I
>
> believed was the proper driver for it in Windows, and then found out 
> that I could no longer use the LAN, gt mail, etc. I tried very hard to 
> repair Windows, but I could not, and the
>
> downloaded Windows disk which I tried to install would not, altho it 
> tried to more or less of an extent on several attempts. As a result i 
> no longer have any way of running Windows 10
>
> on that machine, and probably could not reinstall any earlier version, 
> because they were all upgrades, one at a time, over the years, from 
> XP, and MS will not let you do a fresh install
>
> of an upgraded system that you might have on a disk. So, unless I want 
> to buy a new Windows disk, I will have no Windows on that machine. Not 
> only that, I was advised on a forum that a
>
> possible reason that Win 10 would not reinstall is that the drivers in 
> it are not compatible with my 5-year-old MOBO.  (When it was 
> upgrading, the old drivers were still in place.) So even if
>
> I bought a new Windows, it might not install!
>
> You have been warned.
>
> --doug
>
>
> On 04/27/2016 05:12 PM, bmarsh at bmarsh.com wrote:
>> If it were me I would give that 100gb back to Linux and put windows 
>> in virtual box and run it under Linux. You could probably do with a 
>> lot less than 100gb as a virtual machine.  And a Windows seems to run 
>> a LOT better as a virtual machine.  Plus, you can have more than one 
>> version of Windows if you have the disk space, and you do have enough.
>>
>> I have XP, Win7, and Win10 all on the same machine under Vbox but I'm 
>> probably going to get rid of one or more soon.  But each version will 
>> be backed up and usable if needed.
>>
>>> On Apr 27, 2016, at 5:18 PM, Jerry Lapham <rjlapham at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have an HP desktop with a 1 TB drive which came with Windows 7.  I 
>>> shrunk
>>> the Windows partition to 100 GB and have installed and run Kubuntu 
>>> 14.04 LTS.
>>> I don't actually use the Windows 7 but I see no reason to delete it.
>>>
>>> My question is:  is it safe to apply the free Windows 10 upgrade or 
>>> would it
>>> cause problems with my linux partitions?
>>>
>>>     -Jerry
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