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Windows 10 Anniversary Update Borks Dual-Boot Partitions
The Windows 10 anniversary may interfere with, affect and even delete other partitions on the same disk. http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/08/windows-10-anniversary-update-delete-partition
It seems that the latest version of Microsoft's OS has attention issues. Not content with forcing itself on users who didn't want it, it may be taking even more drastic steps of hosing other operating systems entirely!
A handful of reports surfacing on social media suggest, anecdotally, that the Windows 10 anniversary may interfere with, affect and even delete other partitions on the same disk.
If these claims are accurate —and do keep in mind that various different factors may be at play in these cases — it would be a pretty shocking situation.
Classic Shell, Audacity downloads infected with classic MBR nuke nasty
http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/04/classicshell_audicity_infection/
Classic Shell and Audacity downloads were booby-trapped with an old-school software nasty this week that knackered victims' Windows PCs.
Hackers were able to inject some retro-malware into the popular applications' installers hosted on fosshub.com, an official home for Classic Shell and Audacity releases among other software projects.
When victims fetched the tainted downloads and ran them, rather than install the expected app, the computer's Master Boot Record (MBR) was replaced with code that, during the next reboot or power on, displayed a cheeky message and prevented the machine from starting up properly. The drive's partition table was also likely damaged.
We thought these sorts of shenanigans died in the 1980s or early 1990s. In order for this to work, the victim would have to click through a warning that the download was not legit
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(Score: 2) by tibman on Thursday August 04 2016, @07:59PM
Their big update was barely noticeable to me. I can see very few changes. Edge had a new start screen but then froze (went not responding) on visiting a website, nothing new there. Cortana is still dead/deleted. The windows defender icon changed in the taskbar. The clock has an agenda thing in it now (i have no desire to mess with it). I use classic shell so i didn't notice any startmenu changes until just now when i became curious. All programs are listed in alphabetical order in one giant scroll list. How much money did Microsoft spend on this update? Why did they even talk about this update like it mattered?
The biggest thing i noticed was having to get a new visual studio update because debugging was broken. That and having to reinstall sandboxie because something broke there too.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @08:18PM
Yeah I noticed that too.
Does anyone have a link to the list of bugs actually fixed? They are hyping the non features as 'huge' things but I am more interested in what did they actually fix. The old MS would have had a huge list of things fixed. Now it is more of a 'trust me' or 7-zips way of handling it 'some bugs were fixed'.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday August 04 2016, @10:17PM
To this you have to add the steady drumbeat of complaints of Windows nuking people's dual boot setup on every Linux help form for years and years.
It has never played well with others. And these new reports might just be new users getting their first smackdown after setting up dual booting on they brand new windows machine.
I'll probably notice nothing. I believe dual booting is a sucker's game, and never do that.
You want to try out a different OS? Run it in a VM (either Linux or Windows) if you feel you must have both.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @10:51PM
I have not used dual boot in probably 20 years. It was pretty much a quick way to dork up your computer.
I quickly learned one OS at a time folks. It works for a bit until the next update from either OS. I had linux updates nuke out a windows/os2 install and the other way around.
VMs changed that game. But still one OS at a time as the main OS. HW and VMs is so dead easy and cheap these days there is no reason to dual boot.
Honestly, I had forgotten you could do it.
(Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Friday August 05 2016, @05:03PM
Since Windows 8, MS even support the hardware clock being set to UTC.
My understanding is that VMs are a pain if you try to use local time.
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Saturday August 06 2016, @10:13AM
I had a similar experience:
1. It didn't break the dual boot.
2. The redesigned start menu is better: When you press start it lists the programs immediately instead of having to click All Programs. Some other stuff that seem to come from cyanogenmod.
3. Without any Microsoft account (local account and never used or registered to the store), I pressed Start+R, and executed bash to initiate the Ubuntu bash shell install. It downloaded it and everything just worked.
Interesting points:
1. It's an ANCIENT machine. An old Q6600 without EFI. Definitely doesn't have a TPM 2.0. This, while newer i7-3770 and i5-2500 are not showing the upgrade when I try to update... Not sure what that's all about.
2. When I first tried to uninstalled all the crapware by right-clicking->Uninstall, it reinstalled them! I needed to go to Settings -> Programs and uninstall them from there to make it stick. Very annoying.
3. It's slower and takes longer to boot. Even before installing the Linux subsystem, I noticed things were more sluggish.
4. The ubuntu subsystem is pretty nice. I can really see people getting introduced to linux by starting out with this:
4.1. There's a "Microsoft bash launcher" in C:\Windows\system32\bash.exe that on the $PATH so you can execute bash scripts by running "bash foobar.sh".
4.2. The virtual file-system comes with ubuntu's aptitude and deploys with vim, nano, python and python3 right-off-the-bat. I tried installing guile and it worked. I doubt perl will have any issues.
4.3. The C drive is mounted under /mnt/c so that's not a problem.
4.4. Htop didn't show non subsystem processes so it's like wine.
4.5. I haven't looked any further then that, but if you can setup an x-server and shortcuts to stuff like emacs, teaching linux to windows users just got 10 times easier.
Overall, I'm happy with the update. I will now safely reboot to linux and never look at windows again unless I need access to a non-linux hardware peripherals. I'll probably try getting all my family's boxes updated just for the linux subsystem so when someone shows a need to automate something, I'll just write a script in whatever and won't have to go through all the horrible windows installation steps.
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