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desperanceSo I've been blithely playing around with operating systems this and that, secure in the knowledge that if I cock things up too badly I can always restore Windows to the factory default and start again...
Except, um, not so much, apparently. I dutifully made a recovery USB for Windows 8, and yesterday another for Windows 8.1. I just tested them both, and neither works; so I tested the installed recovery options, and they all demanded one USB or the other, and as I say...
Hey-ho. If I end up having to ditch Windows, abandon dual-booting and just installing Linux over the whole machine, can I pretend it was a deliberate act, rather than oops-I-crashed-Windows-past-recovery?
In other news, the dagger that took Kit Marlowe's life was valued at a shilling. Bob-a-job, all early and unlooked-for: poets come cheap and always have done.
Except, um, not so much, apparently. I dutifully made a recovery USB for Windows 8, and yesterday another for Windows 8.1. I just tested them both, and neither works; so I tested the installed recovery options, and they all demanded one USB or the other, and as I say...
Hey-ho. If I end up having to ditch Windows, abandon dual-booting and just installing Linux over the whole machine, can I pretend it was a deliberate act, rather than oops-I-crashed-Windows-past-recovery?
In other news, the dagger that took Kit Marlowe's life was valued at a shilling. Bob-a-job, all early and unlooked-for: poets come cheap and always have done.