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Did anyone get a Windows 10 invite?

Well, let's see...first there was the network adapter issue exacerbated by the failure to recognize my SD card issue, but in the long-term those weren't huge problems.

Then this evening my SSD drive...also known as my Windows boot drive...was no longer being recognized as having any data on it, and after doing an install of Win X to a separate partition on a separate drive I'm being told that if I want Windows to use the SSD I'll have to initialize it.

Possibly coincidence. Probably not a driver issue this time around.

So I'm not exactly thrilled that I upgraded right now, no. At least I back up.
 
I'd really love an option other than 'start over from scratch with that drive', but I'm not sure I have any. I'll have to do more research tomorrow.
 
No problems on my desktop pc. Installing on my wife's laptop now. Hopefully no problems. Upgraded from Win7 on the PC and Win 8.1 on the laptop.
 
DonIago said:
Well, let's see...first there was the network adapter issue exacerbated by the failure to recognize my SD card issue, but in the long-term those weren't huge problems.

Then this evening my SSD drive...also known as my Windows boot drive...was no longer being recognized as having any data on it, and after doing an install of Win X to a separate partition on a separate drive I'm being told that if I want Windows to use the SSD I'll have to initialize it.

Possibly coincidence. Probably not a driver issue this time around.

So I'm not exactly thrilled that I upgraded right now, no. At least I back up.
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Do you have a windows 8.x or Windows 7 DVD around? If not see if you can track one down (or a windows 10 boot dvd or thumb drive created from an ISO)

Boot from it and see if the hard disk is accessible and whether the data is present. IF you've used a windows 10 boot media you maybe able to repair the OS installation.

Also a good old checkdisk (chkdsk) can fix any integrity issues that might prevent Windows from boot (which I've done in the past)

As to the issue with your network adapter, when you run the installer for Windows it should have presented you with the option to download any updates. Did you choose to do so?
 
My internet has been messed up ever since I "upgraded" to windows 10. While I had windows 10 running after a few minutes, my internet would drop. I used the troubleshoot program which would reset the Ethernet port and my internet would work for literally a minute (60 SECONDS!!!) before dropping again. This would repeat till I gave up since I couldn't use the internet any longer.

I've since switched back to windows 8 and my internet is working almost fine now, but there are some sites I usually frequented that no longer work anymore. Notably blog sites. Whenever I click on them, the site would become unresponsive and no matter how many times I try to recover or refresh the site, it would remain unresponsive. Never had this problem before "upgrading" to windows 10.

Can anyone tell me how I can delete the windows 10 program from my laptop?
 
BlackFire3 said:
My internet has been messed up ever since I "upgraded" to windows 10. While I had windows 10 running after a few minutes, my internet would drop. I used the troubleshoot program which would reset the Ethernet port and my internet would work for literally a minute (60 SECONDS!!!) before dropping again. This would repeat till I gave up since I couldn't use the internet any longer.

I've since switched back to windows 8 and my internet is working almost fine now, but there are some sites I usually frequented that no longer work anymore. Notably blog sites. Whenever I click on them, the site would become unresponsive and no matter how many times I try to recover or refresh the site, it would remain unresponsive. Never had this problem before "upgrading" to windows 10.

Can anyone tell me how I can delete the windows 10 program from my laptop?
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If you've gone back to Windows 8 then then Windows 10 should have been removed from the computer as part of the process.

Running a disk cleanup will make doubley sure.

I'd hazard a guess that your problems with windows 10 where eitehr some malware that had snuck in (and taken care of when you restore the windows 8) or a driver issue that could have been fixed by a driver update.
 
BlackFire3 said:
I did that twice, it didn't help, so the problem resides solely with whatever programs windows 10 has.
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If you're still having problems now that you're back on Win 8, then obviously Windows 10 is not the problem with your internet issues.

It's like saying you drove your wife's car yesterday and kept hittig potholes and now that you're back in your car today hitting potholes it's obviously a problem with your wife's car.
 
Marc said:
DonIago said:
Well, let's see...first there was the network adapter issue exacerbated by the failure to recognize my SD card issue, but in the long-term those weren't huge problems.

Then this evening my SSD drive...also known as my Windows boot drive...was no longer being recognized as having any data on it, and after doing an install of Win X to a separate partition on a separate drive I'm being told that if I want Windows to use the SSD I'll have to initialize it.

Possibly coincidence. Probably not a driver issue this time around.

So I'm not exactly thrilled that I upgraded right now, no. At least I back up.
Click to expand...

Do you have a windows 8.x or Windows 7 DVD around? If not see if you can track one down (or a windows 10 boot dvd or thumb drive created from an ISO)

Boot from it and see if the hard disk is accessible and whether the data is present. IF you've used a windows 10 boot media you maybe able to repair the OS installation.

Also a good old checkdisk (chkdsk) can fix any integrity issues that might prevent Windows from boot (which I've done in the past)

As to the issue with your network adapter, when you run the installer for Windows it should have presented you with the option to download any updates. Did you choose to do so?
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I was able to install Win 10 onto a partition on a separate drive, so at least I'm in. Also the majority of my data wasn't on the SSD, so that's good. And I have backups.

In the Win 10 disk manager it's jumping right to offering to initialize the drive. I'm assuming that doing so will not improve matters.

I downloaded one recovery tool that claimed there was nothing available to recover. Not encouraging. Downloading another right now. Depending on the results of that maybe I'll do a basic chkdsk.

Realistically, the SSD is a few years old, and it is possible that this was simply its time to conk out, but doing so in the middle of an OS upgrade was understandably less than an ideal development.
 
DonIago said:
Marc said:
DonIago said:
Well, let's see...first there was the network adapter issue exacerbated by the failure to recognize my SD card issue, but in the long-term those weren't huge problems.

Then this evening my SSD drive...also known as my Windows boot drive...was no longer being recognized as having any data on it, and after doing an install of Win X to a separate partition on a separate drive I'm being told that if I want Windows to use the SSD I'll have to initialize it.

Possibly coincidence. Probably not a driver issue this time around.

So I'm not exactly thrilled that I upgraded right now, no. At least I back up.
Click to expand...

Do you have a windows 8.x or Windows 7 DVD around? If not see if you can track one down (or a windows 10 boot dvd or thumb drive created from an ISO)

Boot from it and see if the hard disk is accessible and whether the data is present. IF you've used a windows 10 boot media you maybe able to repair the OS installation.

Also a good old checkdisk (chkdsk) can fix any integrity issues that might prevent Windows from boot (which I've done in the past)

As to the issue with your network adapter, when you run the installer for Windows it should have presented you with the option to download any updates. Did you choose to do so?
Click to expand...

I was able to install Win 10 onto a partition on a separate drive, so at least I'm in. Also the majority of my data wasn't on the SSD, so that's good. And I have backups.

In the Win 10 disk manager it's jumping right to offering to initialize the drive. I'm assuming that doing so will not improve matters.

I downloaded one recovery tool that claimed there was nothing available to recover. Not encouraging. Downloading another right now. Depending on the results of that maybe I'll do a basic chkdsk.

Realistically, the SSD is a few years old, and it is possible that this was simply its time to conk out, but doing so in the middle of an OS upgrade was understandably less than an ideal development.
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The only recovery tool you need is a Windows 10 DVD or thumb drive IOW - microsoft not some third party.

Download the Windows 10 ISO image and then burn into a DVD or create a bootable thumb drive, boot from it and use the recovery tools (some are run from the commandline).

To recover a windows 10 environment you need a Windows 10 boot media - the recovery environemnt from Windows 8.x won't recognise Windows 10.

The resason I suggsted a Win 8.1 media was you might have had one around and b) it would be sufficient to take to check the drive.

As you're able to to boot into Windows 8 it sort of becomes moot.

The SSD with Windows 10 would be visibile to the Windows system. Go into device manager -> hard disks and see if the drive shows. Also into Administrator tools -> computer managemnet -> disk management and see if the drive shows. It may list as offline in which case you can bring it only and perform an integrity check.

The drive manufacturer may also have a diagnostic tool to check the status of the SSD.
 
Er...like I said, the drive shows up fine, but Windows claims it needs to be initialized before it can be used. I actually can't do a chkdsk on it as I can't assign a drive letter to it (it's showing up as completely unallocated space, no partitions etc.) unless I want to initialize it, which seems potentially risky from a data preservation standpoint.
 
My laptop boots to the splash screen but no name or account picture. Just a few icons at the bottom.

Effectively bricked as I can't even access the bios now. But a blank empty drive and it works.
 
Wait, if it's getting to the splash screen it's obviously going past the bios, why can't you access the bios?
 
sojourner said:
Wait, if it's getting to the splash screen it's obviously going past the bios, why can't you access the bios?
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I have no idea. I ended up pulling the main battery and the CMOS battery and put Windows 7 back... Just the OS no software at the moment and trying to update it... But that is proving more dramatic then when I first had this laptop in prime condition.. It is getting there slowly
 
I'm finding slow and annoying, thing freeze up and are not responding, its a pain in the ass.

maybe it really is Skynet?
 
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