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??
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…
I’ve pointed my Windows user folders to a separate data partition since at least the WinXP days and on a separate HDD altogether since probably Win7, when SSDs started to become more mainstream and affordable and I started using SSDs for Windows and program installs.
Always consider the OS drive to be temporary.
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. :)
simple. disable windows update.
if you want to update for some reason (features maybe?), backup before you update. after updates are completed, disable windows update again.