I went into Command Line and all my stuff was still there, but it thought it was wiped. The following horror story is true - and apparently it has happened to a whole lot of people who upgraded to Win10 from 7 or 8, based on questions on Microsoft's tech forums and those of several other tech help sites.įirst, no can boot, then when booting to recovery options, can't fix Startup or anything else. It hung looking like it was thinking for an hour or two (it said it would take more than an hour) and then it killed my PC. They hide another partition in there after the upgrade, and when Windows decided I ran out of space on C, after deleting or moving things to other partitions or an external drive, I decided to increase space there by resizing 2 other partitions, using EaseUS or Partition Master, I forget. Seb, Just don't do it on a Win10 upgrade from 7 or 8. assuming you use all of a drive's storage capacity, you can't add or expand one partition without reducing the size of another partition - since I have a partition image backup already, I just restore that, setting the partition's new size at the same time. assuming you use all of a drive's storage capacity, you can't add or expand one partition without reducing the size of another partition - since I have a partition image backup already, I just restore that, setting the partition's new size at the same time.īecause I'm a big believer of disk/partition image backups, I actually use those more than partitioning apps when/if I need to work with partitions. Partitioning software can mitigate that by never removing data from one physical location until it's been verified the same data exists somewhere else, but IMHO the safest bet is to have partition image backups before you start - restoring an image backup puts things back exactly as they were.īecause I'm a big believer of disk/partition image backups, I actually use those more than partitioning apps when/if I need to work with partitions. The danger in working with partitions is that you'll lose some or all of the data stored there if something goes wrong. In admittedly limited use, Macrorit has worked as well for me as EaseUS, Paragon, & AOMEI. Working with hard drives for the most part isn't all that difficult - software company A tries to distinguish itself from company B by adding features, with their GUI, or as in the case I believe with Macrorit, by using optimized code that performs tasks faster. "Ashraf was not impressed with the program and to be honest before I tested it I would have to find some in depth reviews, you don't mess with partitions so I'll give it a miss." It was in the days when the excellent Ashraf was a regular contributor and before the no button pressing squads idiotic jabbing, happy days.Īshraf was not impressed with the program and to be honest before I tested it I would have to find some in depth reviews, you don't mess with partitions so I'll give it a miss. What was utterly amazing was the quality of the comments then compared with now, it made me realise what a wonderful site this had been. It was only at version 1 and so improvements would be anticipated. Not really enough to give much information so thought I'd go back to the last time it was offered here to look at the reviews. Went on to their website and saw there was a download at CNET clicked on it in the hope they will also be reviews, a dead link!įound a few reviews on the site at CNET site at the searching:. Long may this site continue: the first of the giveaway sites and, all these years later, still the best. kudos to GOTD itself, unique in the way it facilitates honest and, oft times, even hostile comment in regard to the very promotions it happens to be running. (Sorry, Mike: don't want to increase your workload!)įinally. In fact - speaking as one with a particular interest in video / audio - Mike is the resource to whom everyone should turn to when impartial, definitive guidance is needed. Nowadays, however, all is far from lost, with Oootje doing some really sterling work and, but of course, Mike (who though my namesake is entirely unrelated.) Mike has consistently provided some of the best written and quietly authoritative contributions GOTD has ever seen. Sadly, my ol' brain's a bit too tired to summon up the name of the deservedly founding member of the Hall of Fame, but perhaps someone else on here can do so (White Rabbit: can you remember?) He went under the most unlikely posting ID and was the lead GOTD contributor from GOTD's Day 1, long before Ashraf debuted.Īlso much missed is XP Man, both for the quality of his posts and as a fantastic reminder that no-one should ever believe what Microsoft says in its attempts to manipulate computer users into feeding its profits flow: XP Man demonstrated time and time again that XP. They're the contributors who helped make GOTD what it is and, as you say, are much missed.
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