Official Windows 10 Thread: Installation and Issues (check first post)

quicky008

quicky008

Technomancer
i have win 10 1909 installed on my primary partition (C drive),i am planning to install an older release of win 10(V 1803 to be precise) on another partition of a secondary HDD in order to run some older games-could that potentially have any adverse effects on my primary win 10 installation?

Also i usually keep fast boot enabled to make the boot time quicker-will installing 2 different versions of windows 10 on 2 partitions prevent fast boot on either OS from working properly?
 
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whitestar_999

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Install older/other win 10 version on 2nd hdd/ssd after disconnecting the 1st hdd/ssd. Fast boot will work as long as you are not planning on switching win 10 versions at next start(basically fast boot means you will not be able to go into bios menu to select the boot device unless latest bios have some kind of feature to do this).
 
quicky008

quicky008

Technomancer
and what would be the outcome if i keep the 1st HDD connected while installing windows 10 v 1803 on the 2ndary HDD?

will it create a dual boot menu that allows us to choose which version of win 10 we would like to boot with during startup?
 
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whitestar_999

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quicky008 said:
and what would be the outcome if i keep the 1st HDD connected while installing windows 10 v 1803 on the 2ndary HDD?

will it create a dual boot menu that allows us to choose which version of win 10 we would like to boot with during startup?
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More chances of messing up of booting process by way of windows OS on one hdd cross-referencing to system partition on other hdd.
 
sling-shot

sling-shot

Wise Old Owl
SaiyanGoku said:
Were you able to check if its getting detected in Bios under boot options/order?
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It looks like he is not even getting display, it would be not possible to do anything in this case.

Hardware issue seems to be most likely. If it is anything to do with Windows or hard disk, he should at least see BIOS screen.
 
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andy_65_in

Padawan
The servicecentre accesibility is difficult now bcoz of covid...should i reattempt booting using rufus ...a friend bootable.d the usb for me
 
SaiyanGoku

SaiyanGoku

kamehameha!!
andy_65_in said:
The servicecentre accesibility is difficult now bcoz of covid...should i reattempt booting using rufus ...a friend bootable.d the usb for me
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Check if you are able to get into bios and that pendrive is getting detected. If not, the method used to make it bootable must be changed from MBR to UEFI.
 
SaiyanGoku

SaiyanGoku

kamehameha!!
sling-shot said:
It looks like he is not even getting display, it would be not possible to do anything in this case.

Hardware issue seems to be most likely. If it is anything to do with Windows or hard disk, he should at least see BIOS screen.
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Never heard of a windows 10 update corrupting the bios. At most, the partitions in storage are lost.
 
sling-shot

sling-shot

Wise Old Owl
I think he has a hardware fault independent of Windows Update or Windows in general.

There is no point in continuing this discussion.
 
vidhubhushan

vidhubhushan

Alakh Niranjan
many times, windows 10 (1909, Build 18363.836) removes Show Hidden Files option & checking it shows it like the image where neither option is selected. when i try to enable it, i am able to click on show hidden files but it does nothing. sometimes in the past, clicking on reset folders and rebooting worked but right now it is not working. it works fine in other accounts - both general as well as admin. this one is a regular user acount.
many solutions are given on Internet like registry modifying etc. but that setting is the same.
recently i downloaded some torrents & bitdefender free deleted some files in it. i have not run any of that or anything new.
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whitestar_999

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May be it is related to bitdefender free, check by trying to reproduce this issue in safe mode with same user account & if it doesn't then some software/bitdefender is likely the reason.
 
vidhubhushan

vidhubhushan

Alakh Niranjan
i clicked on reset folders. did some work and then switched it off. started just now and i was able to change it, working now. thanks dear. i will try to check next time when it is not working. btw it was working in admin account and an account i created to check.
 
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whitestar_999

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vidhubhushan said:
i clicked on reset folders. did some work and then switched it off. started just now and i was able to change it, working now. thanks dear. i will try to check next time when it is not working. btw it was working in admin account and an account i created to check.
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If it is working in other accounts/newly created accounts then most likely the reason is some software/setting issue in that account.
 
vidhubhushan

vidhubhushan

Alakh Niranjan
whitestar_999 said:
If it is working in other accounts/newly created accounts then most likely the reason is some software/setting issue in that account.
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it stops working on its own. also, i have neither installed any new software nor changed any setting anywhere. i don't remember even any windows updates coming. lagta hai kabhi kabhi koi bhoot ruk jata hai rest karne ko system mein. :D
 
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whitestar_999

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vidhubhushan said:
it stops working on its own. also, i have neither installed any new software nor changed any setting anywhere. i don't remember even any windows updates coming. lagta hai kabhi kabhi koi bhoot ruk jata hai rest karne ko system mein. :D
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Most probably some new win 10 bug, that's why many people hate this 6 month win 10 new version update cycle.
 
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