Deleted Losedows 10's reserved partition and Losedows 10 can't boot

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nadebula.1984
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A rejoint: 05/01/2018

There are quite a few small partitions on the HDD with preloaded Losedows 10, marked as "reserved", "recovery", "diagnostic", etc., respectively.

I tried to delete them one by one and see what happened. Finally, when I deleted the last small partition marked as "reserved", Losedows 10 couldn't boot any more. In Losedows 10's disk management interface, the "reserved" partition had the flags of "main", "active", and "system", but not "boot". I just wanted to know whether this partition was required or optional. I simply deleted this partition and set another primary partition marked as "boot" (and which is also the C: drive of Losedows 10) as "active". It seemed that this "reserved" partition was essential to Losedows 10's functioning.

I haven't made any backup and don't wish to attempt any repairing. I'm just waiting for today's scheduled Debian installer weekly build and then use it to re-install the operating system.

commodore256
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A rejoint: 01/10/2013

Lol "Losedows", not to insult you, but that's one of the least clever puns I heard and I still love it! It's so un-clever, I didn't even think of it making it clever in that meta. Kinda like an "It's so bad it's good" kind of film. Of which I can do with drawings, but it's mostly "It's so bad, it's bad". If I draw something and I know it's going to be bad, I like to make it as stupid as I can at times. Bob Ross said "We don't make mistakes, we just have happy accidents". Again, I'm not trying to insult you and I'm trying my best to show humility by saying my art is trash. (though my art still is regardless, lol)

Anyway, I'm glad you exorcized your computer of non-free software though I do kinda like the NT base, I'd love to see ReactOS go 1.0 and not only save some people that are dependent on non-free legacy from legacy support hell, I'd like to see it go into a new direction and have it compete with GNU/Linux. I have a feeling Linux is compromised and I think a suitable replacement would be a clone of NT with contemporary libre drivers and applications.

If "Microsoft <3 Linux", I'd love to see free software users "<3 a libre clone of NT". So spite would also be an interesting side-motive. We shouldn't be loyal to a kernel, only to freedom.

nadebula.1984
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A rejoint: 05/01/2018

I was just curious about Losedows' default partitioning pattern. Since Vista, it created various weird partitions if you used its default installation settings.

Before effectively killing the Losedows 10 installation (preloaded by the seller), I did some experiments with it, including testing whether it was still possible to disable system update or Losedows Defender on the latest Red Stone (something similar with Service Pack). It seemed that the latest Losedows 10 did have certain mechanisms to revert user-made changes and re-enable the two biggest anti-features (forced update and Losedows Defender). Other major anti-features included silently downloading and installing software without users' consent, and the universal advertising ID (even high-paying Enterprise edition users can't escape).

After fulfilling my curiosities, I terminated this Losedows 10 installation by deleting one of its necessary partitions. (Strictly speaking, what I exactly did was to re-format the said partition to ext2 and use it as GNU/Linux's /boot partition, since the size of the "recovery" partition (~500 MB) was perfect for a /boot partition, too. I hoped I could still dual-boot. But without this partition, Grub didn't recognize a bootable Losedows installation any more.)