Not to mention what a bitch that partition is when you need to shrink or increase the size of your windows partition. If you need to upgrade your storage, or resize to partition to make room for other operating systems, you have to follow like 20 steps of voodoo magic commands to do it.
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IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 6 months agoMicrosoft can’t even release a fix for Window’s recovery partition being too small to stage updates. I had to do it myself, fucking amateurs.
space@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The possibility of a catastrophic fuck up is way too high to put this on the average Windows user.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Whoa learned that one at the weekend. Added a new nvme drive, cloned the old drive. I wanted to expand my linux partition, but it was at the start of the drive. So shifted all the windows stuff to the end and grew the Linux partition.
Thought I’d boot into windows to make sure it was okay, just in case (even though I’ve apparently not booted it in 3 years). BSOD. 2-3hrs later it was working again, I’m still not sure what fixed it of I’m honest, I seemed to just rerun the same bootrec commands and repair startup multiple times, but it works now, so yay!
space@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Hiren’s Boot Cd has a handy tool that can fix that bsod. I’ve used it many times.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Jeez, I’ve just looked at the list of utilities, I’m not surprised, it’s got FireWire drivers for dos included. You’ve got to be pretty deep into the weeds at the point you need FireWire support in DOS from a recovery disk!
bstix@feddit.dk 6 months ago
Can’t or won’t? The same issue exists for both windows 10 and 11, but they haven’t closed the ticket for windows 11… Typical bullshit. It’s not exactly planned obsolescence, but when a bug comes up like that they’re just gonna grab the opportunity to go “sry impossible, plz buy new products”
IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I didn’t know that. So the ticket is still open for 11 but there’s still no fix?
bstix@feddit.dk 6 months ago
That is my understanding.
I can’t find the article that I read just yesterday, but this is somewhat the same story: theregister.com/…/microsoft_windows_recovery_envi…