Win 10 anniversary update

50Twuncle

NiftyDigits wrote: »

You can download the image yourself and run an in-place upgrade(or a clean install) by burning image to DVD or creating bootable USB media and running setup.exe from File Explorer(or clean install from boot).
This is much the same as what happens when you click on the upgrade link. It downloads the image and runs an in place upgrade(obviously the easiest option).

I would like to add (for those who are unsure) - it does not affect any files that you already have on your PC - It is an upgrade !!

50Twuncle

One thing that I am unsure about is whether the "back up copy" (on the C: drive) of Win 10 gets updated as well ?

[Deleted User]

Isn't the backup/recovery copy, usually stored on a separate partition?

Mine's on , which is a separate partition, on the same physical HDD as C:

grumpycrab

50Twuncle wrote: »

One thing that I am unsure about is whether the "back up copy" (on the C: drive) of Win 10 gets updated as well ?

Assuming we're talking about the same thing, the "backup copy on the C: drive" is NOT updated. Why not? For the obvious reason that if you revert to previous OS, this it where it gets it from. (I had to revert because the Anniversary edition gave me 100% disk usage - very odd.)

50Twuncle

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Isn't the backup/recovery copy, usually stored on a separate partition?

Mine's on , which is a separate partition, on the same physical HDD as C:

I have just checked and found 7 partitions on my C: drive - from various OS's that I have installed over the years (Win 7, 8, 8.1 and now 10 - also I had a spell using Ubuntu) - they all leave unwanted partitions !!
I see that Win 10 is backed up to a 20Gb partition - the rest are under 1Gb - so am leaving them

NiftyDigits

50Twuncle wrote: »

I have just checked and found 7 partitions on my C: drive - from various OS's that I have installed over the years (Win 7, 8, 8.1 and now 10 - also I had a spell using Ubuntu) - they all leave unwanted partitions !!
I see that Win 10 is backed up to a 20Gb partition - the rest are under 1Gb - so am leaving them

Time for a clean install?

50Twuncle

NiftyDigits wrote: »

Time for a clean install?

Possibly - yes - but what harm are 5 (approx. 500Mb) partitions doing ?

[Deleted User]

50Twuncle wrote: »

I have just checked and found 7 partitions on my C: drive - from various OS's that I have installed over the years

But they must each have a different letter assigned to them, meaning that, although they're all on the same physical drive, they're all separate logical drives, ie. partitions.

50Twuncle

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

But they must each have a different letter assigned to them, meaning that, although they're all on the same physical drive, they're all separate logical drives, ie. partitions.

No - they are all down as "recovery partitions" - with no drive letter
I have only 2 letters on my C: drive (c and d) d = data

50Twuncle

Windows roll-backs, now limited to 10 days .... amongst other changes
http://www.infoworld.com/article/3104389/microsoft-windows/the-case-against-windows-10-anniversary-update-grows.html


So what are MS playing at ?