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debs3759
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Cool. Now I gotta decide what bootable software to use to make the disk image after a fresh install and upgrade. Might even break a lifetime habit and buy a decent app 
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debs3759
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Cool! Can you restore the primary partition from a boot disc?
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| debs3759 wrote: | | Cool! Can you restore the primary partition from a boot disc? |
yup
usually it will prompt and ask if you want to make a recovery disc
the recovery disc is generic, not specific to your machine, it just boots to where you can select where to recover from
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Cool thread.
I've upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 7 about a week ago with everything running fine. All drivers previously installed in W7 have successfully survived the upgrade.
Except the shutdown time (it takes forever to shut down) I don't regret my decision to upgrade. At least it's free 
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debs3759
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That's great, I get bored waiting for all the updates on each install. They are by far the slowest part, and I never install apps before completing updates. A good 6 hours lost, it'll be great to get that down to under an hour
I knew I bought a blu-ray for something other than burning movies I download
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I spent 2 years trying to persuade my friend to install Ubuntu. Do you know why he still did it recently? He read the Win 10 license agreement  |
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debs3759
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I've had Win 10 installed for a few days now, and other than the appearance and the fact updates will continue long after Win 7 loses support, I see no real difference. Had to upgrade Zone Alarm, O&O Defrag and the GPU drivers. The only real issue was the 6 hours of Win 7 updates prior to upgrading, and on the first attempt the upgrade failed and rolled back.
Now I have a system disc image, the next reinstall should take under an hour, instead of a full day.
I used the download link lither gave, and didn't need a registration key when upgrading, so keeping the disc for other systems.
One thing I can't figure out, does anyone know how to get rid of the 25GB windows.old directory? Most of the thousands of files are protected by TrustedInstaller, whatever that is!
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debs3759
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Answered my own question. I googled windows.old and it was a two minute process to get rid of Win 7 and its baggage.
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