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| Thread ID: 124673 | 2012-05-12 03:02:00 | Why I still don't like Linux | Tony (4941) | Press F1 |
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| 1274870 | 2012-05-14 09:53:00 | For example: last time I installed Windows 7, it installed fine, but decided to put 100MB of boot support files onto my 1TB storage drive even though I was installing it onto a completely different, 250GB hard drive. Had that happen when installing Win8 and it totally pissed me off as I had told it which disk I wanted it installed to. Very poor I thought. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1274871 | 2012-05-14 10:00:00 | Had that happen when installing Win8 and it totally pissed me off as I had told it which disk I wanted it installed to. Very poor I thought. Yeah I noticed that starting with Win7. Still not sure why it does it .... |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1274872 | 2012-05-14 10:14:00 | Thinking about it, perhaps it's supposed to be some recovery feature, ie: if the partition on your system drive is trashed, hopefully the boot folder will be safe on another drive? | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1274873 | 2012-05-14 11:13:00 | Tony is probably lucky if his multi-boot Windows installations have been trouble-free ...It's probably because I'm not a neophyte. :) | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1274874 | 2012-05-14 11:51:00 | Thinking about it, perhaps it's supposed to be some recovery feature, ie: if the partition on your system drive is trashed, hopefully the boot folder will be safe on another drive? Considering the majority don't multi-boot I don't think it would be very useful. I think it is just Windows being Windows and doing its own thing regardless. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1274875 | 2012-05-14 20:36:00 | Considering the majority don't multi-boot I don't think it would be very useful. I think it is just Windows being Windows and doing its own thing regardless. If the majority don't dual boot then why would it be a problem if Windows creates its own 200MB partition (especially as it creates it when you create a partition)... |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1274876 | 2012-05-14 21:37:00 | Windows installs the 100 mb partition on Ultimate I think. It didnt install it on this. Which is Win7 Pro | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1274877 | 2012-05-14 22:03:00 | Windows installs the 100 mb partition on Ultimate I think. It didnt install it on this. Which is Win7 Pro Aa far as I can tell, if the disk already has partitions on it and you don't alter them during Setup, Windows doesn't create the partition. | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1274878 | 2012-05-14 22:12:00 | True I think I did that once, just made the partitions bigger. Then setup couldnt create the 100 mb partition | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1274879 | 2012-05-14 22:13:00 | If the majority don't dual boot then why would it be a problem if Windows creates its own 200MB partition (especially as it creates it when you create a partition)... I don't have a problem with it creating the partition it is just when told to install to a certain HD why does it insist on installing it on another without the option. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
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