Anno domini 11:08:26 Sat, 18 Jul 2020 +0200 (CEST) Felmon Davis scripsit:
On Sat, 18 Jul 2020, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Anno domini 2020 Sat, 18 Jul 01:24:09 -0700 William Morder via trinity-users scripsit:
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my intention, should I keep the laptop, is to install Windows 10 Pro in place of Home.
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I hope never to be forced to say those words, ever again: install Windoze. I also made vows to get more exercise, and to eat less junk food.
If you do not run any games, why stay with windoof? There was just a quite emotional thread on the freebsd mailinglist about win10 killing all OS on the disk - happened with the latest update to 2004 (?) IMO. That thing changed the partitioning scheme and introduced a 500MB partition for the m$ bootloader, killing everything in its way.
Anyway, my prefered way is to do a 1:1 copy of the origila hd - or rip the disk and put is on the shelf. Then go Linux/BSD only and run M$ from qemu/virtualbox.
I wanted to 'rip' the disk or even take it out and replace it with one of mine (my usual style) but I had trouble getting the software to work and it's a pain in the ass screwing (literally) around. if I return it I'll depend on the Windows re-set utility.
a little uneasy since I don't know how strict the seller is about returns (Saturn). done it before, was ok....
If you bought it online: just return within the 14 day span from delivery, software does not matter at all, but the don't screw around :)
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