Post Win 10 advice pre TI 2017 upgrade from 2012
Hi Folks -
I am hoping to get some feedback and/or help with the following issue.
I was using True Image home 2015 (Bld 6613) on my Win 7 64 Ultimate OS. Was having no success upgrading to Win 10 - the short version being that against all better judgement I allowed a MS tech to take control of my machine...and he totally wiped out my SSD system drive and a hunk of the hard disk that had the supportive data related files for the OS. After I managed to regain a semblance of sanity I looked at the way the drives in my system were now partitioned...and I attached a copy of Disk Management with this message.
I do not quitge understand the way things now are. My SSD OS drive is listed as "Disk 1" and shows only one partition. The D: disk is listed as "Disk 0". I have always understood that it is dangerous to have an unallocated partition at the beginning of any drive. Should the 100 MB EFI System Partition be on the D: drive" ? And what happened to the "100MB NTFS System Reserved Partition" and the "466 MB Recovery Partition" that used to be on that SSD when it was the OS drive with Win 7?
As this is my first expereince with Win 10 I have no idea if this is a correct setup or if it is just the end result of a 4 1/5 hour horror story with the tech support guy - who once I FINALLY got a Win 10 boot screen....told me everything was great and he finally succeeded.
I had checked before trying to upgrade to Win 10 to be sure my TI 2015 would still work....and read that it would indeed as it was the correct version However although it does backup, when doing an image backup it will not ignore the blank sectors as I have been accostomed and so it takes a much longer time and considerably more disk space...
I am going to upgrade to TI 2017 but want to be sure i do not mess things up further as my last TI 2015 image backup is my only hope if things get any worse.
Thanks in advance for any consideration
-Jonathon
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Jonathon, ATIH 2015 is compatible with Windows 10 though you may see some issues with the very latest Win 10 Creators Update if you have a 'God Mode' folder on your desktop, as some other users have found.
In terms of your screen shot of disk manager, I would expect the EFI partition to be on the SSD not on the other drive, but would guess that it is there because that is Drive 0, i.e. the first drive on the first SATA controller port.
In terms of how to remedy this different, take a read through the hits produced by searching on Google with "move efi system partition to different drive" where you will see a number of posts covering various Windows versions, inlcuding Window 10.
You may also need to consider moving the SSD to plug into the Disk 0 SATA controller port once the EFI partition is moved to the SSD, though this may depend on how your UEFI BIOS handles the Boot Priority settings.
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Hey Steve-
Looks like you are my "Guargian Angel" in this forum! :) I had read that TI Home 2015 (Bld 6613) would work with Win 10. I would have upgraded to 2017 but limited funds and some large previous April expenses made me have to wait till May to do so.
I certainly do not recall renaming or moving any of my hard drives in the years that I ahve been using Win 7, so I was confused by the "repositioning" of them after the Win 10 upgrade (It seemed strange to me that Win 10 would not appreciate the same relative sata controller positions as I had not touched the drives before or after the upgrade. I suppose I may have changed the assignments some where in the past but i sure have no recollection of it? (Old geezer here...oh no is this Altzheimers? :)
Your recommends make total sense and are well appreciated. I am still fighting to get everything up and running on Win10 as it was on Win7.
I am still in shock after the MS tech screwed me so royally and the last thing i ever wanted to consider was to redo my system from scratch.
I will of course read up extensively on moving partitions, and/or swapping the drives on the sata controllers. I have a set up where I can slide drives in and out of slots on my tower case, (hot-swappable) so perhaps that will make it easier if i can figure out which is which interms of the cactual sata connections. This will not happen in the next day or so as I am clearly still fractured from all this Win 10 stuff....which went on for a couple of weeks...and still is....so going into my machine right now would be ill advised! :)
Thanks once again for your input...and hope you are enjoying your day.
-Jonathon
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