I Hate Myself For Loving You Windows 10 .....

[lostinisaan]

Hello and Sawasdee khrap,

I made a huge mistake last night and wanted to change my partition size because I saw 20 GB unused space. Well, turned on Mini Partition tool for "technicians" what I'm obviously not am".and tried to resize partition C. But all went wrong and a total crash the result.

All I wanted to do was to watch a movie and it's my own fault to be so stupid, I know. But then I thought that it wouldn't be a problem, as I've got the system backed up twice, or thrice...

It's very irritating to do a simple restore when you've got a few back ups on one drive and the drive letters change. Then the fun starts.

I found a very good back up, let it run for about an hour +, everything was "normal", I had "restart when done" selected and all looked fine.

But only until the system wanted to reboot, but didn't find any data.....................................

Some more tries were not successful and the installation CD looked at me when I almost started crying. No way to repair the system, no way to find a back up with Acronis rescue, no way, no way.

Then I had to start over again. What really bugs me is that the computers at my school, I've upgraded are working well. But my personal PC gives me a huge headache.

Did anybody on this forum use Acronis True Image 2014 for a Windows 10 pro back up, or restore before?

Any useful posts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot for your time...

[ezzra]

WIN 10 will not work with older machines, in particularly connecting to external equipment,

I had to go back to WIN 7 after my Sony Vaio refuse to connect to my home WI-FI....

So MS di didn't do a complete job with WIN 10 after all,

[lostinisaan]

WIN 10 will not work with older machines, in particularly connecting to external equipment,

I had to go back to WIN 7 after my Sony Vaio refuse to connect to my home WI-FI....

So MS di didn't do a complete job with WIN 10 after all,

Such a problem is easier to solve. Of course depending on what you're using to connect via wifi. Once you've got the details of the hardware, you might find the right driver for it.

But if a back up and restore program like Acronis doesn't work, shame on Microsoft. There's no message that there's something wrong, or something's not compatible.

You jump in the freezing cold water without even knowing it within a blink of an eye. That's disgusting to me. I finally lost all my data on Drive D as well, because the PC didn't "see" it anymore.

Even putting Windows on again, then trying to run a restore didn't work. It showed only that a file would be missing? A file that worked well before?

Okay, I know why the update is free. Their goal is to find out how many users are having copies then they'll have to pay, or will be switched off completely...

What program would be good to make a back up and a successful restore with Windows 10?.

I think I was just too tired and disappointed last night that I might have made some mistakes as well.

" I know that I know nothing."

P.S. Is it normal that Windows is switching its own System Restore off? I just checked on the both well-functioning school computers and both System Restore programs are turned off.

That would have saved my machine at home because you can also use a Windows Back up.

Edited November 24, 2015 by lostinisaan

[Gregory Morozov]

Acronis and Windows 10 work together just fine for me. However, especially if you have GPT partitioned drive, there are many things that the user can do wrong, mostly when selectively backing up/recovering individual partitions.

[Chicog]

But if a back up and restore program like Acronis doesn't work, shame on Microsoft.

No, shame on Acronis.

They've had ample builds to deploy and test with.

[lostinisaan]

But if a back up and restore program like Acronis doesn't work, shame on Microsoft.

No, shame on Acronis.

They've had ample builds to deploy and test with.

Madame, you're right. I remember another time when a try with Acronis rescue went completely wrong. The before 100 % functioning back -ups were all in a sudden not usable anymore?

It's my own fault that I didn't dedicate a whole drive to my home PC with all the expensive programs on. Some of them are not recoverable.

I've got the home PC backed up on two different external drives, plus one is one the D drive. But the D drive disappeared after the rescue.

I'll drive home in a few minutes and thought I should skip computer stuff for today. You know when you're not in the mood then things go wrong.

The biggest problem is that I've lost all my files on drive D and they were not backed up, including one system back up.

I wasn't joking when I wrote that I was almost in tears and hated myself that I started this partition stuff. It usually works well, but when it'

s asking for a restart, you should never agree and stop immediately.

But you're right, Acronis seems to be at fault. All works well with Windows 7 and that's what I might go back and do the Upgrade from scratch on?

What do experts here think? Considering that I've lost all my Data on drive C, I could format the whole drive and start over?

How can I format a drive that's in use? Do I need to put the drive in a case to do so??

It would make sense to start over gain and have a clean Windows 7 installation? Oh, I don't know. Please tell me what you think> Thanks a lot

[DogNo1]

It seems that you are constantly resizing your partitions wtih disasterous consequences. I can remember two previous incidences. One previous time, you were shrinking your OS partition. Why not just leave the partition sizes as big as possible at the beginning and then don't monkey with them. If you need additional space, buy another drive to add to the system. They're cheap enough. Why go through the constant hassle?

[petermik]

It seems that you are constantly resizing your partitions wtih disasterous consequences. I can remember two previous incidences. One previous time, you were shrinking your OS partition. Why not just leave the partition sizes as big as possible at the beginning and then don't monkey with them. If you need additional space, buy another drive to add to the system. They're cheap enough. Why go through the constant hassle?

When your lostinisaan you need something to tinker with

Edited November 25, 2015 by petermik

[astral]

The only warning I got was that Paragon Partition Manager 11 will not work with W10

Fair enough it is quite an old version

Acronis works perfectly

I backed up before the upgrade

and again afterwards so I have two recovery points if I need to go backwards.

The Vaio wireless problem can possibly be solved by downloading a new driver

IMHO MS did a pretty good job with W10 but they cannot be expected to cover

every device on older machines

[lostinisaan]

I've made a huge mistake and trusted a backup and recovery program. All I wanted to do was to use some unallocated disc space, used Mini Tool Technician Maker and landed on my nose. A pretty rough landing, as the wheels didn't come out........

Finally, I had to format my whole drive and start from scratch on. When I had the "Acronis restore problem" that made it necessary to put a new W 10, plus all my programs on, I thought that was too much and was very busy for a long time.

Now I've got the system back to Windows 7 and just started to receive the first 205 updates. My thread should be a warning not to trust Windows 10. It's not the programs that don't work, it's Windows 10 that makes many programs functioning, but without a warning, you might erase your whole drive C, or what happened to me, I've lost all on my drive D as well.

The Acronis accident was weird. Everything was normal ( using the 2014 version), but after the restart nothing worked. Then I was locked out from my own PC? Getting the system back to how it was, but having 20 GB somewhere made me use the Partition Tool.

So only after three days after the fix, I had all gone, which left me speechless. I still don't know if I ever go back to 10 on my personal PC. I was close to a nervous breakdown and I'm not joking now. Needed the piece of <deleted> and certain files and folders for school, but lost all.

Can't use any of my back ups, I've made for Windows 10. Won't try it again.

Please, be warned.

[seedy]

Topics merged as close to the same subject, and same problems.

[lostinisaan]

WIN 10 will not work with older machines, in particularly connecting to external equipment,

I had to go back to WIN 7 after my Sony Vaio refuse to connect to my home WI-FI....

So MS di didn't do a complete job with WIN 10 after all,

Thanks for the great post !!! I had Windows 10 on from the beginning and I thought I'd be a sort of familiar with it...

I apologize when/if my words are so difficult to understand, I'm German.............

[lostinisaan]

Topics merged as close to the same subject, and same problems.

Thanks a lot. I really had no idea and two motorbikes just crashed right in front of me, almost hit my pick up. Sorry, for any inconvenience.

[lostinisaan]

It seems that you are constantly resizing your partitions wtih disasterous consequences. I can remember two previous incidences. One previous time, you were shrinking your OS partition. Why not just leave the partition sizes as big as possible at the beginning and then don't monkey with them. If you need additional space, buy another drive to add to the system. They're cheap enough. Why go through the constant hassle?

I plead guilty.

[lostinisaan]

The only warning I got was that Paragon Partition Manager 11 will not work with W10

Fair enough it is quite an old version

Acronis works perfectly

I backed up before the upgrade

and again afterwards so I have two recovery points if I need to go backwards.

The Vaio wireless problem can possibly be solved by downloading a new driver

IMHO MS did a pretty good job with W10 but they cannot be expected to cover

every device on older machines

Acronis worked perfectly. Showed all was okay, but after the restart, all looked like the Colosseum in Rome. Have you tried a restore with Acronis yet?

[Aforek]

Have you tried a restore with Acronis yet?

Yes, I did a complete restoration one month ago ( my disk with 3 partitions , partition C with windows 10; the tree partitions in one file ), every thing, every file was exactly at the good place ( Acronis True image 2015 ); backup and restoration took about the same time : 4 hours

if a computer is " clean ", everything is ok; if I remember, as said below ( DogNo1 ) , you made many changes in your partitions, its not good, I think, and your system was not ready for a good job from Acronis ; for me, not windows or Acronis fault , but may be your actions in the past with your partitions ( I say " maybe " ... )

when I had Windows 7, I wanted to make a disk clonage, Acronis refused to do it, there was something wrong in my original disk; I reinstalled everything correctly and after that I could do my clonage normally

[RichCor]

There is a big difference between the 'restored partition not being bootable', and a 'restored partition not being readable'.

A 'system backup' generally includes other disc markers and sections besides the OS partition.

And confusion can occur when Windows creates those 'system reserved' partitions to go along with every OS version it has ever run.

[DogNo1]

After restores that won't boot, utilities such as Fixboot, Paragon Disk Manager and others can help. I've sometimes been able to repair boot sectors but it's tricky. Partitions do not show up with the same identifier as when Windows is running and I've found it easy to get them confused. Not to mention the problem of hidden partitions that must be unhidden.

[lostinisaan]

It seems that you are constantly resizing your partitions wtih disasterous consequences. I can remember two previous incidences. One previous time, you were shrinking your OS partition. Why not just leave the partition sizes as big as possible at the beginning and then don't monkey with them. If you need additional space, buy another drive to add to the system. They're cheap enough. Why go through the constant hassle?

When your lostinisaan you need something to tinker with

Maybe when you're lostinisaan? Yep, shame on my computer skills. Just had to show a "technician" at my friend's computer shop how to "deal with" MS office 2013.

He pressed " activate online" and was even more lost than I ever was. He can't read Tinglish.....

[ravip]

It seems that you are constantly resizing your partitions wtih disasterous consequences. I can remember two previous incidences. One previous time, you were shrinking your OS partition. Why not just leave the partition sizes as big as possible at the beginning and then don't monkey with them. If you need additional space, buy another drive to add to the system. They're cheap enough. Why go through the constant hassle?

And if running only one OS, why partition at all?

One partition on-board and an external drive for backing up?

With Windows File History, backing up is quite easy too.

Edited November 27, 2015 by ravip

[lostinisaan]

My old love's back !!! I had my key saved on an external drive, then used a very nice way to install Windows 10 again. Please try your setup with "Rufus", it's free and hasn't got viruses.

Please download Rufus here: https://rufus.akeo.ie/ Then use a memory stick, for the 32 version at least 4 GB, for the 64 version at least 8 GB of space.

Please be aware that all files on the memory will be erased when using rufus.

My love came back within only 75 minutes, including all functioning programs and all files and folders. Exactly where they were.

Edited November 29, 2015 by lostinisaan

[lostinisaan]

A short update. I've just upgraded my 8-year-old Dell Inspiron 1440 from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and it's like a racehorse now.

Everything is so much faster and the set up with a memory stick took an hour only.

Thumbs up for Windows 10, all programs are working and i have a lot of them...

[Chicog]

Nice one Mike.