I f*cking hate windows(love/ hate abusive relationship for sure). All my installs fail or get corrupted. No matter how careful i am.

I keep nothing on the C: drive. All my data on separate drives. I backup my windows drive monthly in fear that my PC might decide to brick itself after a bad update or faulty shutdown.

As I type this,my desktop no longer booting and its been “attempting to repair windows” for 3hrs now. Good thing i made a backup on a separate drive 2 months ago, lol.

Anyone else here instinctively take measures to hedge against windows unreliability??

  • acbadam42BEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I have computers that I’ve had the same copy of Windows on it for 5 years and never had a problem. This really sounds like a hardware problem to me. Possibly a ram issue that only pops its head up rarely. I actually own a computer repair store so I have had experience with some of this.

  • binaryriotBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m on a Mac. Actually never had to reinstall my OS (usually install once when the computer is new). I still keep my actual data separate from the system installation disk/ device. It’s just the smart thing to do.

    But maybe I’m too old-school… back in the Amiga days we had a write-protected system floppy disk (aka the “Workbench” boot disk) and then we kept our actual data on some other (writable) floppy disks. I moved that mentally over. Now I shuffle hard disk drives instead floppies, but the concept is basically the same. :)

  • hobbyhackerBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I have daily image backups of the OS drives with a history of 60-90 days.

    my Windows is also stable, except when the SSD kills itself upon a sudden power loss…