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Windows eats partitions (lemmy.world)
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[–] transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 30 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemdro.id 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Never send them the drive.

They are probably required to boot to the desktop for qa

[–] transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemdro.id 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah, that is really sad. I'm actually due for a new laptop soon, I'm just very thankful that Framework exists now.

[–] YIj54yALOJxEsY20eU@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

That pissed me off

[–] SaintNewts@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

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.