SherlockPwnz Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 A few people know this but for those who don't over the weekend this last weekend I lost my backup drive that I keep on my desk. The drive was a Toshiba Canvio 3TB Desk drive and plugged in via USB 3.0. I currently run windows 10 and had the Autumn Update come across. After this update is when I started noticing some major problems most of which are small annoyances but this one relating to my backup drive is huge. In the Autumn Update microsoft has given windows operating system complete and discrete control over any drive on the system. This includes flash drives and drives that plug in via USB. If it feels that the drive has errors (even if it doesn't) it will lock off a portion of your drive in a "Lost Drive" partition and however much data that takes up it subtracts that from your total space and then reformats your drive for the most usable space possible. I encountered this problem this last weekend when I lost everything (or thought I did). Luckily my girlfriend and I had purchased a program to recover our data from that "Lost Drive" partition. This is monumentally huge for people who use windows 10 because at any point in time windows can decide any type of storage drive has "an error" and wipe your drive without you knowing it. Be aware of your systems everyone this could happen to you as well. There are many topics that talk about this and so far microsoft has not acknowledged this issue exists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevinyock Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 (edited) I have a windows 10 laptop. Thanks for informing me of this problem,and does it do it when window 10 is on or does it do it regardless? Edited June 20, 2018 by Great Leader Kevin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epicgamercharchar1312[UK] Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 I haven't had any issues yet, thats pretty scuffed though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SherlockPwnz Posted June 21, 2018 Author Share Posted June 21, 2018 I have a windows 10 laptop. Thanks for informing me of this problem,and does it do it when window 10 is on or does it do it regardless? I am not sure. I had shut my computer down to plug in a DVD drive because my case is all tempered glass so I have no bays for my dvd drive. when I turned my computer back on it was all gone. I am assuming this happens at boot considering when I turned my computer back on instead of posting and booting right away it did a post and then restarted a second time posted then booted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misc2008 Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 This is why you make external backups... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SherlockPwnz Posted June 21, 2018 Author Share Posted June 21, 2018 This is why you make external backups... My drive was external. unless I am misunderstanding what you mean by external backups. That is why I am so blown away by this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxsnake Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 Or you know, set it to not update your computer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misc2008 Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 My drive was external. unless I am misunderstanding what you mean by external backups. That is why I am so blown away by this. oh well.... that's shit then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SherlockPwnz Posted June 21, 2018 Author Share Posted June 21, 2018 Or you know, set it to not update your computer That's great and all but then you don't get things fixed that are wrong with the OS. I used to have that mentality before but my honest two cents. People shouldn't have to disable updates from their operating system manufacturer in fear of them screwing peoples systems up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeri :) Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 I’ve had issue with my headphone and sound drivers as of the autumn update. Pretty fucking annoying tbh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vel'Roz Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 windows 10 is becoming really annoying. microsoft keeps updateing and adding useless and annoying stuff, then forces you to use it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
braided_a Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 Or you know, set it to not update your computer except this doesn't work because microsoft forces some updates, they'll stop giving you to option to delay and will restart your pc regardless. happened to me in a league game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Techmo Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 There's only one clear option, join the linux master race. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SherlockPwnz Posted June 22, 2018 Author Share Posted June 22, 2018 There's only one clear option, join the linux master race. If Linux was decent for gaming I would. A lot of games aren't "compatible" with linux OS. Sure you could use WINE to emulate an OS launch environment but it has bugs and issues. Unless I have been out of the game for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Techmo Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 Wine works fairly well in my experience if you use the development builds. Although, if you want a refresh rate higher than 60hz, you still need to modify desktop.c in the source code for wine's dx11. For steam to work correctly, you also need to disable cef sandboxing when launching: wine Steam.exe -no-cef-sandbox srry, this is a bit off topic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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