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windows 8 to 8.1 and disk partioning
October 18, 2013 at 10:58 am
I have a question, I am going to install the release of windows 8.1 to my windows 8 system but I combined my split hard drive so I have everything on my C drive, if I install 8.1 will it wipe my data and create a new partition for all my programs and data or will I be safe?
Note: I have created a system image backup on my external hard drive just in case.
also I would like a answer asap please
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RE: windows 8 to 8.1 and disk partioning
October 18, 2013 at 1:10 pm
I have a windows 8 laptop and I cant find the update in the store. I is disappoint.
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RE: windows 8 to 8.1 and disk partioning
October 18, 2013 at 1:37 pm
(This post was last modified: October 18, 2013 at 1:38 pm by LastPoet.)
You should get another OS. Sorry to be blunt, but that's just the sad truth.
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RE: windows 8 to 8.1 and disk partioning
October 18, 2013 at 1:57 pm
Linux mint!
Now seriouls there actually is no windows 8.1, windows 8 is actually 6.2 (Do not ask it really makes now sense) open cmd and check it out
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RE: windows 8 to 8.1 and disk partioning
October 18, 2013 at 2:07 pm
I believe that a clean install will wipe the boot drive, unlike an upgrade.
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RE: windows 8 to 8.1 and disk partioning
October 18, 2013 at 2:19 pm
Lemonvariable72 Wrote: Linux mint!
Now seriouls there actually is no windows 8.1, windows 8 is actually 6.2 (Do not ask it really makes now sense) open cmd and check it out
You understand that there's a difference between the OS build version and the kernel version, yes?
Open up a bash shell and type 'uname -a' and tell me what part of the output tells you what version of Mint you are running.
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RE: windows 8 to 8.1 and disk partioning
October 18, 2013 at 2:40 pm
Well I have upgraded now, and its fine, and in fact is a improvement from 8, as in it no longer shit, not as good a 7 but not as bad a vista I would say between xp and 7, how I should have been.
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" - Edward Gibbon (Offen misattributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger) (Thanks to apophenia for the correction)
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Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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RE: windows 8 to 8.1 and disk partioning
October 18, 2013 at 2:42 pm
(October 18, 2013 at 2:40 pm)Gooders1002 Wrote: between xp and 7, how I should have been. err... no, not what it should have been!
Win8 should have been better than win7...
I'm still a happy win7 user, as the sticker on my laptop isn't good for win8... 
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RE: windows 8 to 8.1 and disk partioning
October 18, 2013 at 3:09 pm
(This post was last modified: October 18, 2013 at 3:15 pm by Angrboda.)
(October 18, 2013 at 2:42 pm)pocaracas Wrote: (October 18, 2013 at 2:40 pm)Gooders1002 Wrote: between xp and 7, how I should have been. err... no, not what it should have been!
Win8 should have been better than win7...
I'm still a happy win7 user, as the sticker on my laptop isn't good for win8...
Every iteration of an os changes things, that's why it's a different release. I find that many people equate an os being different with it being worse, likely because everybody has different ideas about what should change and what should remain the same, and they mistake the fact of their personal preferences in the matter not being followed for a fault in the new design. I know it took me forever to get used to the new location of things in XP after being used to where they were in NT, but that wasn't a fault in the OS. There may be legitimate faults in 8, but most of the bitches I hear are nothing but bullshit from people still stuck in the "fanboi" stage.
(October 18, 2013 at 2:19 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: You understand that there's a difference between the OS build version and the kernel version, yes?
...I do not think it means what you think it means.
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RE: windows 8 to 8.1 and disk partioning
October 18, 2013 at 3:17 pm
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