| Accidentally ruined Windows 10 on my Toughbook CF-C1 |
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Monday, June 27th, 2016 01:40:37 GMT |
| Puppy Linux |
My Toughbook CF-C1 with 8 GB of RAM came with a 223.6 GiB (240 GB) hard disk with Windows 10 already installed on it.
In the past, I used to be able to use the GParted disk manager software in Puppy Linux to resize Windows partitions without much trouble.
Upon rebooting, Windows XP used to notice the partition's size change, but all Windows XP did was complain a bit, then did a one-time disk check, then continued normally, and never bothered me again.
In contrast - earlier today, Windows 10 refused to even start, and told me I need a recovery disk or something.
Just another reason Windows 10 is inferior to Windows XP.
So, I solved the problem in an even better way - I simply got rid of Windows 10 completely by reformatting my entire hard disk as an ext2 filesystem volume.
So now, my Toughbook CF-C1 with 8 GB of RAM is exclusively a GNU/Linux computer! :-)
Even with all the Windows partitions deleted from the hard disk, I can still boot my CF-C1 using my bootable Flash drive with Lighthouse 64 Puppy Linux 6.02 Beta 2. :-)
But even I have to admit it's a bit annoying to have to have a Flash drive or any other sort of USB device constantly attached to a laptop.
So, for that reason, I've actually been considering using the internal hard disk a bit. Hopefully I'll be able to make reasonably frequent, easy backups to external disks using the command line tool rsync, or something.
I didn't want Windows 10 badly enough to even bother to try to get Windows 10 to work again. (If it was Windows 7, I would have been a little more tempted.)
I'm actually not very eager to use the internal hard disk for anything important, after all the bad experiences I've had with broken down computers with important not-yet-backed up data stuck on their internal hard disks.