Windows 10 Crapped my Laptop

[johnrm]

Windows 10 arrived for my Laptop.
No mention of 'Careful now' so I left it do its thing.
But apparently Win10 doesn't like SSD Drives - so now my Laptop does not boot.
Boo Microsoft.

[imark]

Had similar experience recently. Temptation to upgrade is powerful stuff

[johnrm]

In fairness to MS, they call you back.
In case anyone needs to grab a copy...
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
You will need a key, not sure if your Win7 key will work.

If you are tempted, BACK UP, BACK UP, BACK UP.
Don't be fooled by the Sit back and Relax twaddle...

[dcalnan]

Thanks for the warning, finally clicked on upgrade today, I'll have a better look at it before I fully commit.

[Eoin]

I upgraded my windows machine.... To Ubuntu 😁

[johnrm]

I should do the same Eoin, but right now I want to recover my shtuff.

It seems that my machine is fine for the most part EXCEPT for SSD.
Unfortunately the drive is a 1.8" microsata
Apparently it is possible to get W10 running on it but it involves dropping it on to a HDD, then cloning to SSD.

Ho hum...

[Drum]

I upgraded my windows machine.... To Ubuntu 😁

     
This just became a standard computer forum thread.   
OP says ' windows did something bad'
Post 5 says 'use Linux Its waaaay better'


Disclaimer; Post 5 is probably right, but use Linux with care if you dont know what you're doing

[armedcor]

Sorry to hear about the mishap. I upgraded my pc at home which uses ssd must have been lucky. It's a much nicer operating system.

[Drum]

John, if you have another working computer try downloading a copy of Puppy linux from here http://puppylinux.org/main/Overview%20and%20Getting%20Started.htm

Its a tiny linux OS that runs in RAM alone and doesnt need to access a HD to boot up. you'll need to boot it up from a cd or usb but ive used it a few times to salvage stuff from laptops with broken windows

[johnrm]

I'm comfortable with Linux although it's been a while. I give up for tonight.
Fyi machine is a Lenovo T410s, i5 and 8GB, great soldier up to now.

[johnrm]

Greets from LinuxLand!
I have Puppy Quirky running on a USB stick.
Running Testdisk on this which showed me my missing partition, although after a reboot it disappeared again, Gah!
Regardless, I managed to drop a dd image on to an external drive.
Plus I managed to 'see' (i.e. its not _really_ visible) the missing filesystem and am now copying off the Users folder.
Progress is being made.
Thanks for the inputs lads.

[Will_D]

Remember what the old time mechanics said:

"If it ain't broke don't fix it"

My Toshiba LT is still working with Win 7 ultimate and will stay that way unitil it glitches and then I will buy a new macine with whatever O/S is installed on it.