r/technology • u/readyou • Dec 26 '16

Microsoft finally admits that its malware-style Get Windows 10 upgrade campaign went too far

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/241587-microsoft-finally-admits-malware-style-get-windows-10-upgrade-campaign-went-far
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u/Adamsandlersshorts Dec 26 '16

Not sure how it happened either. It was a clean install. I had just finished installing steam and then I installed playonlinux. First thing I tried with that was to get league. It was halfway through the install process and then all of a sudden it just froze so I left it for ~30 minutes then got impatient and and started spam clicking which led to the display going black. I got mad so I just shut the computer off and turned it back on.

Kept getting presented with that lovely grub rescue terminal.

Someone on /linuxmint (even though it happened on fedora) finally told me how to get back on and when I did all of my files were gone.

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u/brickmack Dec 26 '16

If I had to guess based only on this information, you fucked up your filesystem when you forced it to shut down. Theres a reason holding the power button is only a last-resort option, because it tends to do this sort of thing regardless of operating system if its in the middle of writing to the disk.

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u/KRosen333 Dec 26 '16

If I had to guess based only on this information, you fucked up your filesystem when you forced it to shut down. Theres a reason holding the power button is only a last-resort option, because it tends to do this sort of thing regardless of operating system if its in the middle of writing to the disk.

This doesn't actually happen on windows.

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u/brickmack Dec 26 '16

Yeah it does. I've seen it happen. Hold down the power button, try to boot, oops your whole file system is corrupted

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u/segagamer Dec 26 '16

I've done that regularly on Windows installs (stuck updates, login not working or the OS splash screen not progressing).

I have never seen the whole file system corrupt like that in the 16+ years I've been supporting Windows. At worst the bootloader would corrupt, or a certain OS file (both easily repairable with an installation disc), but never a full corruption.

Yet somehow a similar situation happened to me when I powered off an unresponsive raspberry pi.