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Pastimes : Computer Learning -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: kidl who wrote (91015)	9/25/2015 12:48:17 PM
From: Eric L	3 Recommendations Recommended By Alex Molnar goldworldnet kidl Respond to of 110644

Win 8.1 --> Win10: An Opinion FWIW ... ... and it may be worth VERY little. << 8.1 is working fine for me since I'm only using this little guy for surfing / trading. Would I really greatly benefit from upgrading? >> Given what You use the device for, and that you use a Vista system as your primary 'workhorse' PC I would say that you would gain extremely little other than Win10 experience at this time and would be wise to wait several months or till the beginning of the new CY before making the upgrade. You would IMO, likely be best served by waiting at least till after the Windows 10 “Threshold 2” update -- Microsoft’s first non-patch update for Windows 10 -- is released a month or 2 from now. Win10 will be more stable and polished after Threshold 2 is implemented and thoroughly debugged and more trips, tricks and tutorials will be available then. You might want to use Windows Disk Cleanup on your C: Drive more or less immediately to properly evaluate how much usable space you really have on it before implementing a backup or partitioning strategy. JMHO and FWIW (and waiting till later this year or early next year to make the free upgrade on My Win7 and Win8,1 desktop DPE). - Eric L. -

To: kidl who wrote (91015)	9/25/2015 1:52:48 PM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110644

The Asus Transformer notebook ... << Should have added ... C and D are separate drives >> Question: Is that 2 physical drives -- an internal 32GB (C:) and external 64 GB (D:) -- as opposed to a single partitioned drive? - Eric L. -

To: kidl who wrote (91015)	9/25/2015 5:50:15 PM
From: goldworldnet	Respond to of 110644

Since your internal drive is only 32GB, and it's nearly full, that will make upgrading to Win10 more difficult unless you do a clean install. You can however create an image file of C: on D: and there will still be plenty of room on D: for your documents, media, and any software setup files you may need to reinstall to a clean Win10 installation. A disk image is a compressed file similar to an ISO, that you can make a recovery from, but you can't access files and folders directly from it, which is why storing copies of your important files in ordinary folders on your D: drive would make them easier to later transfer back to the C: drive after a clean installation of Win10 has been done. * * *