For those Who Care to Play: Acros SOOC + RAF

On 5/12/2017 12:48 PM, Bill W wrote:
On Fri, 12 May 2017 09:50:44 -0400, PeterN
wrote:

On 5/12/2017 4:08 AM, Bill W wrote:
On Fri, 12 May 2017 03:58:23 -0400, nospam
wrote:

In article , David B.
wrote:


One of the last things I said to them was, " I guess this is why
people move to Apple". It might be a couple of years, but next time I
think I need something new, I will be looking at them for the first
time.

macs don't care if they're booted from internal or external drive,
whether it's usb, firewire, thunderbolt or sata. as long as the system
on the drive is compatible with the mac, it will boot, without any
changes necessary. they can even boot and install macos over the
internet to a blank hard drive.

there is also a recovery partition, which is automatically installed
(and is used for more than just recovery), so you don't actually need a
separate emergency boot disk.


Same with windows.
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I don't think you are right about that, Peter, but I'm no computer expert.

Perhaps someone else reading here will make further comment.

he isn't.

There is a system partition used for recovery, but I don't know how
it's used. You sure can't boot from it.

This article covers that very subject. Is it easier with a Mac? I don't
know, but I will not participate in a tool war.

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/32523/how-to-manually-repair-windows-7-boot-loader-problems/

I saw that article, and it was useless. Many steps are missing, at
least for my PC. Bootrec was only one of several commands and other
steps that were needed. If that article works for anyone, they are
very lucky.

The other huge issue that I mentioned in another post is that the
recovery disk you can get from MS gives you a choice between copying
it to a USB drive, or to a DVD. You would think that the two choices
give you the exact same files, but they didn't for me. After wasting
hours using the USB drive, I finally burned it to a DVD, and the
failed commands finally worked. But the method in that article you
cited still was of no help.

If you're curious, this is what was needed:
Use Diskpart for the following:
remove drive letters from system partitions - might
need to make them inactive.
Assign drive letter C to Windows partition.
Make C: active.
Exit Diskpart.

Type these commands:
bcdboot c:\windows
bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /rebuildbcd

It took a very long time to find this fix with Google. And like I
said, the most critical commands above did not work with the USB
drive.

I'm going to guess that this is considerably more work than what Apple
needs.


Sorry to hear that. I had a systems issue, went to the MS kiosk in a
local mall. They fixed it for no charge. That was about a year ago. MS
may have changed its policy.
You may be right. I cannot speak for Apple.
But When I needed support on my iPhone Apple gave me good tech support.
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PeterN