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Posted on 08/22/2016 8:04:19 AM PDT by dayglored
Microsoft is coy about it in places, and estimates vary.
(The time to make a Windows 10 recovery drive is before your PC dies. Grab a USB drive—you might need a big one!—and we'll show you how it's done...)
Attila Balaton bought an 8GB USB key to create a Windows 10 Recovery Drive only to find out 16GB was required.
Mea culpa: Answer Line was partly to blame, as my former colleague wrote that Microsoft suggests “at least a 4GB USB key.” It’s not his fault, though, as on this support page Microsoft says in order to create a Windows 10 Recovery Drive you will need a, “USB thumbdrive with 4 GB of space or more.” Confusing things further is this page from Microsoft, where the company doesn’t even mention how much space you’ll need. Finally, on its support page for Windows 8 Microsoft says the recovery image the software creates, “…is typically 3 to 6 GB in size.“
However, based on Atilla’s feedback I went in and updated our article. Also in the video that accompanied the above article, we mention that when we tried the process on a laptop in our office it said we needed a 16GB key! This got the staff at PCWorld curious, so we also looked into this further to see if we could nail down a specific size requirement, and also figure out what factors play a role in determining the size of the recovery data.
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(Excerpt) Read more at pcworld.com ...
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Just got my SSD and UPGRADED back to win 7..... sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo happy!!
Is that preferable? I thought win 7 wasn't being supported and at some point soon becomes unusable.
If it's preferable, can you do it from a new computer that comes with win 10? If so, how do you do it?
SSDs rock! Much faster! Made the transition last year on a windows 7 machine.
Did obama take over MS? I guess I missed that.
For internet you can use different browsers. The problem down the line will be print drivers, USB and such.
I have two printers connected to my new Dell that came with win 10 and both printers seem to be working fine. Will there be a problem later?
That im not sure of, I turned off my updates.... I guess i will cross that bridge when I have to...
Win 10 was simply unusable for me....
I was so bummed out by the constant upgrades every two or three days on Windows 10 where it would tie up my laptop for an hour or more to download 110 improvements, that I went to my neighborhood computer store and begged them to take it off. I’m relieved to be back with Windows 7. Now I hear the same complaint from the church secretary who just updated, that Windows 10 is constantly tying up the church computer and she can’t get back to people on a timely fashion. My computer guy said these updates weren’t for our good but so that Microsoft can track our web visits.
PC Today freezes my laptop!
I’m using GWX Conrol Panel to make sure Windows 10 doesn’t “accidentally” get loaded on my and Mrs. P’s PCs. I highly recommend it.
all of my main data is stored on a NAS, the SSD is just for the PC itself... takes maybe 10 sec now to power up.
my wife’s IMac HD also failed and ordered an SSD for that as well...
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Windows 7 support continues through 2020. Microsoft will cease issuing patches or service updates in January 2020.
I think the instructions are old in that the recovery is probably based on drive size. These days with 1Tb and larger drives hard to say what is required for recovery.
Do you have an external HD backup/storage drive? Try creating an image and see how much space it takes.
My laptop is a win10 system but we still use 7 enterprise here at work.
I thought win 7 wasn’t being supported and at some point soon becomes unusable.
If it’s preferable, can you do it from a new computer that comes with win 10? If so, how do you do it?
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No, if you get Windows 10 as a fresh install on a new machine, there’s no free way to go to Windows 7 from there.
The “downgrade” only works if you had Windows 7 to start off with, then took the “Upgrade to 10 for Free” option. Even then it could be tough; I don’t say that from specific experience (I never went back) but with past tech experiences.
I have Win 10 on an SSD and it boots fast. I use IE 11, not Edge, and still have some minor issues with the IE browser for my specific needs. My Surface Pro 3 tablet works flawlessly using IE 11 for my specific needs, but not my desktop. So a setting must be off, although I compared the browser settings and that did not solve the problem. So the last thing to try is the default settings in IE to try cure my issue. Otherwise, I use IE 11 on my Win XP server or Tablet to get by for now.
If you get Windows 10 as a fresh install on a new machine maybe these problems aren’t there, I don’t know. I know I’ve got two printers connected to my computer and they’re working fine so far.
I had terrible browser issues on 10, FF IE... even chrome...
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