Ubuntu To the Rescue
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I'm using my "on the road" laptop. Dual boot, Ubuntu 16.04LTS and Win10. Partitioned the disk into 5 slices of various sizes. Windows gets C: and D:, Ubuntu gets / and /home and there is one shared. Oh and they can mount each others' partitions if I'm too lazy to move stuff to the shared one. But keepass lives there! Cheers, Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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raddevus wrote:
I mean, I'm talking about Win10 getting something right
So activating an OS buy moving your SSD to an other computer it's called 'right'? Aren't we a bit too low..
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:
So activating an OS buy moving your SSD to an other computer it's called 'right'?
Haha, I had to read that sentence to think about it for a moment. That is quite a terrible end-user solution, right? M$ Tech support: "Okay, uninformed user, go and take the SSD out and find another laptop and drop it in there...Hello....Hello...Hmm... I think he hung up!?" :laugh:
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Stopped working can be a million on things. There were issues with registration, upgrade to Win10? I installed 30 times last year and not a single one has failed. Especially a triple boot xubuntu/Windows 7 x64/Mac OS (hackintosh) and I was sweating during the upgrade of the (non-main) partition of Win7 to Win10 (boot loader is osx). All went perfectly.
I thought stopped working was very definitive answer. :laugh: You are right. Her PC also has Norton AntiVirus (the root of all problems) on it and it may have been causing a conflict. There was no reason that suddenly I could get to the Internet by dropping it in another laptop. I was just glad that I was lucky and things started working. Also glad that the registration process was relatively easy. I should've done that much earlier, but was lazy. :)
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FWIW, Windows 10 can be activated with Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 keys. Once it's activated, you "shouldn't" need to enter it ever again when reinstalling Windows 10, even if you reformat/reinstall as, at that point, MS has generated a hardware fingerprint and knows what key is associated with it. Or at least something to that effect, according to Paul Thurrott.
Good to know. Thanks. I was glad the registration process ended up being easier than I thought. I had previously forgotten that my Product keys were on the bottom of the laptops. Was glad when I remembered them and that they weren't worn off these really old laptops. :)
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Good to know. Thanks. I was glad the registration process ended up being easier than I thought. I had previously forgotten that my Product keys were on the bottom of the laptops. Was glad when I remembered them and that they weren't worn off these really old laptops. :)
When I get a new laptop I always put on one of those clear stickers intended to go on top of labels to prevent the product key sticker from rubbing off. I'm writing this on a netbook (purchased when netbooks were still a new thing) and the product key label is still as readable as the day I bought it. Also--I just re-read what I wrote, and perhaps I could've been a little clearer: You can use a Windows 7/8/8.1 key to activate Windows 10, then wipe 10 and reinstall without having to re-enter the key. If you're on 7 and activate, you *will* have to re-enter the key...it's the Windows 10 activation process that sends out the machine's unique fingerprint. It's only once 10 has been activated that you can skip the key on further reinstalls.
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When I get a new laptop I always put on one of those clear stickers intended to go on top of labels to prevent the product key sticker from rubbing off. I'm writing this on a netbook (purchased when netbooks were still a new thing) and the product key label is still as readable as the day I bought it. Also--I just re-read what I wrote, and perhaps I could've been a little clearer: You can use a Windows 7/8/8.1 key to activate Windows 10, then wipe 10 and reinstall without having to re-enter the key. If you're on 7 and activate, you *will* have to re-enter the key...it's the Windows 10 activation process that sends out the machine's unique fingerprint. It's only once 10 has been activated that you can skip the key on further reinstalls.
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dandy72 wrote:
clear stickers intended to go on top of labels to prevent the product key sticker from rubbing off.
That's a fantastic idea. I will use that in the future. Great info on the registration process too. Thanks.:thumbsup:
Just don't use clear scotch tape - that's too easy to peel off, and if it does, it'll probably rip the label surface as well. What I have found is a roll of clear, almost plastic, stickers that are large enough to cover the entire product key label. [Edit] Unfortunately I can't find an actual product name or number on the roll, but Google searches seem to suggest the proper name is a clear seal sticker label. I'm sure you can find them at a hobby shop. [Here](http://www.professionallabel.com/ClearSealStickerLabels4x1.5Inches500perroll415CLR)'s a sample that looks very similar to what I use. Also: If it's too late and the label is already faded and barely readable to the naked eye, take a picture, and increase the contrast in some photo-editing utility. That should work out pretty well. I also save the picture and put it in a folder (on another computer) where I also keep all the drivers for this particular machine.
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Wow - didn't it even mess up GRUB?
Exactly. Was restarting like 20 times (very nasty setup on that particular machine, a Lenovo laptop, with whitelist/blacklist on wifi adapters etc) and I died and resurrected with each reboot. But on the end the only thing not working was wifi on hackintosh (even with kernel patching), no other hassles. Truly my respect for Win32 guys was (again) on the roof.
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I thought stopped working was very definitive answer. :laugh: You are right. Her PC also has Norton AntiVirus (the root of all problems) on it and it may have been causing a conflict. There was no reason that suddenly I could get to the Internet by dropping it in another laptop. I was just glad that I was lucky and things started working. Also glad that the registration process was relatively easy. I should've done that much earlier, but was lazy. :)
Most likely in those AV cases are either the hypervisor/boot protection, or (more likely) real time monitoring ("on access" feature). Temporary disabling real-time things (either if is disk access, firewall, web traffic) on the AV usually solves such things.
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Surprised Win 10 doesn't periodically check the license against hardware to prevent this.
They check, but not so visible as before, and they offered also Win10 mostly for free. Better for MS to have Windows 10 on all machines rather than deal with a gazillion of legacy things. That's why they do not hassle the user as msoobe did previously.
