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I was feeling quite pleased. My larger laplet accepted the update and everything was fine. I then did my wife's laptop without incident.
Then I came to my small laplet, a 10" screen tablet with 64Gb SD and detachable keyboard. Computer says no. I usually got the same error code, but Microsoft were no use, nor online fora. One error message from M$ (there are many ways to update to 10 creative edition) said that it could not run W10, which is odd, because it already was running W10!
So, finally, I gathered that it was a partitioning problem, that the recovery partition was too small. Fixing that led nowhere, with an encrypted drive there is no way to resize the partitions.
I had to reinstall and delete all existing partitions, using an image downloaded from M$. Then things got really weird. The usb socket is on the keyboard, so I had to keep that attached, and during installation there was no touchscreen or g sensor, nor wifi. Unfortunately, the screen defaulted to portrait.
I am quite capable of operating an astronomical telescope or microscope, where you move left to go right, etc, but this was a totally new experience. To go right, you move the mouse up, and go up you move the mouse left. Landing on input fields and buttons was a random adventure.
Eventually, W10 was installed, but still without anything but a keyboard and a portrait screen, so thank you Powerline for rescuing me and providing internet until I had updated drivers on 20 odd unknown devices. Gradually, my screen flipped to landscape, acquired its touch sensitivity, wifi returned, and all the other sensors started functioning again.
All I then had to do was reinstall programs, reestablish network mappings, and generally get things back how they were. Only one wasted day!
Oh, and that recovery partition is now large enough, for now.
Then I came to my small laplet, a 10" screen tablet with 64Gb SD and detachable keyboard. Computer says no. I usually got the same error code, but Microsoft were no use, nor online fora. One error message from M$ (there are many ways to update to 10 creative edition) said that it could not run W10, which is odd, because it already was running W10!
So, finally, I gathered that it was a partitioning problem, that the recovery partition was too small. Fixing that led nowhere, with an encrypted drive there is no way to resize the partitions.
I had to reinstall and delete all existing partitions, using an image downloaded from M$. Then things got really weird. The usb socket is on the keyboard, so I had to keep that attached, and during installation there was no touchscreen or g sensor, nor wifi. Unfortunately, the screen defaulted to portrait.
I am quite capable of operating an astronomical telescope or microscope, where you move left to go right, etc, but this was a totally new experience. To go right, you move the mouse up, and go up you move the mouse left. Landing on input fields and buttons was a random adventure.
Eventually, W10 was installed, but still without anything but a keyboard and a portrait screen, so thank you Powerline for rescuing me and providing internet until I had updated drivers on 20 odd unknown devices. Gradually, my screen flipped to landscape, acquired its touch sensitivity, wifi returned, and all the other sensors started functioning again.
All I then had to do was reinstall programs, reestablish network mappings, and generally get things back how they were. Only one wasted day!
Oh, and that recovery partition is now large enough, for now.
