I would avoid the windows 10 upgrade-My hard drive failed

[Boxerfan]

And this seems to be a common occurrence.

I'm not sure what to do but lucky I saved my old PC-that is how I'm posting now. The unit I was using was a refurb but worked fine & had good specs. But after the windows 10 upgrade I started having crashes & boot problems. Then it just bsod'd & never returned.

I've lost a lot of photo's but not all-I had them on a CD. And joy of joys the thumb I had EVERYTHING on got wiped somehow. It can be recovered for a fee.

So I just ordered a cheap hard drive with windows 10 pre-installed. It is what I can afford to do for now & I hope it works.

It is probably too late but I would not try to get an old system to work with windows 10. From what I hear it even kills brand new PC's on a regular basis.

Correct me if this is wrong but from Google searches I see a big problem. Hope I'm wrong.

[regnaD kciN]

1. Problem is, you can't "avoid" the upgrade, only delay it...

[canetoad]

4. Yes you can!

Administrative Tools; Services, Windows Update - Disable.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

14. I was able to completely avoid a Windows 10 upgrade.

Forget now how exactly I did it, but eventually the stopped pestering.

More recently I got a new computer and it has Windows 10. But I always thought overwriting one operating system with another did not seem like a very good idea.

[lapfog_1]

2. I have external hard drives plus 2 removable thumb drives

The thumb drives have all of my personal data... on them... and I copy one to the other every night... the external hard drives have my data that I can reconstruct (with a lot of pain) from CDs and DVDs, etc.

[OAITW r.2.0]

9. You really don't have to sweat an internal HD failure if you plan ahead.

My current method.

Download and Schedule a BU utility (I used Back-up free software.

Create a single filefolder on your C rive than saves all your collected data in that folder....include shortcuts on the desktop to this primary folder.

Back up folder weekely (or more often, as needed).

I have 20 years of business data that I BU to 2 different hard drives, using the same BU software.

[rzemanfl]

3. I just had the hard drive on this laptop replaced under warranty. The laptop was new out of the box.

The hard drive lasted two and a half months.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

5. Upgrade or Update?

[Boxerfan]

11. Free windows 10 upgrade as described in a thread here.

I had a windows 7 PC refurbished. I got "skeered" into the windows 10 "upgrade" and for a while it worked. Then I had video issues. Then yada yada yada as described above.

[2naSalit]

6. I consulted a tech friend

and she said that even with the factory upgrade option, never do it, just buy something with it installed. I'm on WIN7 but I think I might bail on windows and go to some other popular OS. But I need more info before making the change. I hope this computer lasts until I can make that change.

[KT2000]

7. All I can say is

that I got a new Dell computer with Win 10 two months ago and I hate it. It hangs often, and there are so many features it is difficult to do many of the tasks.
I had Win 7 and it was easy to use.

[OhZone]

8. My main desktop is win7 and will stay that way until it dies -

I bought it in 2015 after my cousin Gabby got forced into Win10 against her will.

I actually have a cloned HD for it. So even if the HD dies from a virus, ransomware or whatever, I can pop the cloned drive in and be back in a few minutes! Ha!

I also have all my important data backup up to a couple of different destinations, one I lock up in a firesafe. Ha

I do have a WIN10 laptop, and it's Oh-k so far.

But I understand your sitch.

[Midnightwalk]

10. Very hard to say

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Without actual failure rate data. Which is very hard to get in this case particularly because from the os point of view there is nothing it can that should be able to cause a hardware failure. Microsoft is going to blame the hardware like software people do. And in this case that may be fair.

But drives do wear out. Near end of life, extra workload from the os could be the straw that breaks the drive. Maybe more so with spinners with all the mechanical issues and media issues that occur, but flash wears out too.

A new OS likely has a bigger memory footprint so paging is more likely, particularly as software is loading. But any increase in read write rates will make the arm move more which can show up latent issues.

It might he interesting for someone to note the memory footprint size in task manager and the size of the swap file before and after the upgrade. Even better would be looking at the disk monitor (forget what it’s actually called)

Edit to add that just installing the new os will put a lot of new work on the drive. Think of it as an ild guy. Extra work can always trigger something

Good health to all

[ManiacJoe]

12. Hard drives are known to fail over time.

Do you have any links to info on the failures being linked to win10 updates?

[Aussie105]

13. No connection I'd think.

Have hard drive, will fail. (Eventually)
Have Windows 10, will update. (hard to avoid.)

Seriously - been on 10 since it first came out, insider fast ring, on 5 different computers.

Not a single drive fail. They are all SSDs, some use a HDD for data, never for the OS though.