1y ago

Windows eats partitions

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I really hate that Windows does this. Which is why when I decide to switch a machine to Linux it's the only OS allowed to boot to bare metal. Windows can go in a VM and suck it.
- Not sure why, but your comment made me think about the first machine I switched to Linux. It was a laptop who's fan eventually had a bad bearing and needed to be replaced. Luckily it was still under warranty, so I sent the laptop in to get the fan replaced, and received my laptop back with Windows installed on it... I was so livid.
  
  Never send them the drive.
  They are probably required to boot to the desktop for qa
  
  Yup, exactly what they said. But I didn't know any better at the time. These days I would just fix that myself rather than send it to them
  
  Yeah, it's a once in a lifetime thing lol, but it's better to put that out on the off chance someone reading it may have to send one in.
  I hate to say it, but unless they're corporate machines or you put it together yourself, computers are basically disposable these days.
  
  Yeah, that is really sad. I'm actually due for a new laptop soon, I'm just very thankful that Framework exists now.
  
  Cheeky way to get windows for free?
  
  I mean if you already bought the computer, they're really just giving it back to you and I'm pretty sure you can just download it.
  
  I was mostly being snarky. Windows only comes preinstalled if you buy a full setup. All my stuff is either Mac laptops or custom towers so I always have to acquire a new windows license when I setup a new build for myself or my partner
  
  No, yeah I was just being snarky too. I guess builders(probably gamere) are the only real retail windows buyers lol
  
  Just install it without a key.
  
  Had something similar happen to me. Something unrelated to the OS or hard drive and they reformatted my drive and I lost everything. I was ballistic when I found that one out.
  
  That pissed me off
- That's the way to go
- I want to do this so bad but gaming always stops me. Some anticheat refuses to let you play in a vm
- Defective by design. I really hate windows but need it for Ableton.
  Can I boat off Linux USB and run an MBR recovery program or something?
- Depending on your configuration, you can pass a gpu to your Windows VM so you don’t even lose any performance if you use Windows for gaming. All you need is an iGPU and a few extra cores/ram to handle the host overhead.
- Get a separate disk for windows and you can set up your windows VM to also optionally dual boot into it

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