I'm f*cked

[krakr]

Below is a copy/paste of my ? to the M$ forums. I really didn't feel like re-typing my bitch fest:
 
"I recently purchased a new 10 TB HDD for my PC. I installed it on my SATA disk 1 spot replacing the older 1TB drive that was there. (NOT my boot drive which is disk 0 1 TB SSD).
Booted up, confirmed my BIOS saw the disk, restarted and was greeted with a DOS style error message saying that I had made changes to my system and windows could not start. the message told me to insert my windows disk and run the repair option from it.
Did all that, and the repair did nothing. 
Was forced to re-install windows 7x64 from my legally purchased OEM disk costing me huge amounts of lost time.
To be blunt, I'm furious as I write this. I've just got my PC running again and have yet to start transferring data to the new drive.
I will not run Windows Update until that task is complete since it's obvious to me that one of the updates released in the last 12 months (the last time I upgraded hardware) was responsible for locking me out of my own system.
Luckily, I'm a retired IT professional with a long list of law firms as former clients.
After posting this I will do a search for current class action lawsuits pertaining to this issue and join on as a client.
I'm so horribly disgusted in the underhanded BS that's come from M$ in order to force customers to upgrade to your spyware-ridden Win 10 that I think it's time for some push back .
Totally disgruntled customer.
OH, I would suggest you take the update that sabotages one's PC down by the time I'm ready to use windows update again. You could at least give me the KB # to avoid."
 
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Has anyone had a similar issue?
I'm going to copy/paste THIS post and repost it in the forums I check on a daily basis, so if you see it posted multiple times, don't think me a dick, I'm going for maximum feedback on this one.
 

[Guest]

Do not post here more than once, duplicated posts will be removed.

Your "rant" post can stay. But only one copy.

[jonoho]

oh no your indivudial computer individually had an error and now youre mad.

 

ive not had an issue with windows 7, and ive not had an issue with windows 10 since i upgraded, and my backup copy of windows 7 still works just fine. i did numerous hardware changes and it never caused any big issues, and when it did, i just reinstalled the thing because errors have always happened and will always happen.

 

but if connecting a new harddrive causes your system to be completely destroyed, maybe you did something wrong, because i have never heard of this happening. i connected 2 hard drives to my pc a few weeks ago and it runs smooth.

 

if you feel like going down the conspiracy theory path, do it without sueing a company, will you? because unless it turns out that microsoft really is doing that, and the evidence is so big that it cant be ignored, you will loose.

[azoth1267]

1 hour ago, krakr said:

Luckily, I'm a retired IT professional with a long list of law firms as former clients.
 

Suuuure, you are definitely not just making shit up or anything, not at all.

This sounds like something a kid would say to another kid while trying to act like he has friends in high places or that one retard in school who always says he will sue you for everything.

 

As for the actual topic at hand, cant say its the first time i have heard of it, but it always comes with the same problem... aka we dont know if the problem you say it is, is actually the problem. Not a fan of win10 and i honestly want as little to do with it as possible, but i dont think its responsible for the trouble at least not directly. Honestly it sounds like you might have changed the boot drive from the offset.

Have never had problems adding removing non boot drives... never. Only once did i have a problem with swapping boots, and that was my fault.

[Sarge Misfit]

Win7 has issues dealing with HDDs over 2Gb. That is the root of your problems. I had the same problem when I installed a 3Tb HDD. I had to set the drive to use GPT.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/i-have-a-3-tb-drive-windows-7-ultimate-wont-format/b1cc3811-f25f-e011-8dfc-68b599b31bf5?ranMID=24542&ranEAID=je6NUbpObpQ&ranSiteID=je6NUbpObpQ-Lsm814DVd5GZXXrCOam25w&tduid=(0c552a5b5ef219ab3bd4f39b93311c2b)(256380)(2459594)(je6NUbpObpQ-Lsm814DVd5GZXXrCOam25w)()

[Hannahavok]

As others have pointed out here already, this reeks of confirmation bias. No windows update causes it to brick intentionally, however, hardware changes can cause problems for various reasons, it's well documented. I'm not sure why you are throwing such a huge tantrum about this either, after all, you have an install disk and you are loading onto an SSD, that's like a 30 minute process before updates and drivers.

 

Always be prepared for a hardware change to cause problems. It doesn't always, and most of the time it doesn't, but Windows can be pretty petty with what it bricks over.

[flatliner10]

As an "a retired IT professional" you should know, that one does not simply swap A HDD like this, Primary or not - at least not on a modern consumer grade System,

and expects to get away with it without trouble.

 

Your drives (And the assigned Letters) are Stored within the registry, the System will always try to assign the "Fixed" Drives the same Letters as before.

Also, there might be Data on the Drive which the System expects to be there, like Userprofiles, Drivers or Programs, a Swapfile, a System Image or whatever.

Suddenly this Drive was gone and the System Failed to boot - Surprise.

 

A "Professional" would just "undo" the changes and see whats the matter, maybe even test if the new drive actually get detected.

One also can try to copy or clone the drive's content, change the Drives Letter beforehand, and test if it boots before disconnecting the Old drive.

Still better than trying to fix a Operating System which is technically not broken, just misconfigured for it's hardware.

You can replace the Systems Files all day long, at it still will not boot using a mismatched configuration.

 

Don't get me wrong, i am hardly an M$ Fanboy, they f*ck up a lot, but this was clearly a User-Issue and not a nebulous conspiration.

 

I don't see why you really need to avoid any System Updates, AFAIK the "forced Win10 update notification" is no longer getting rolled out,

and there are Several tools out there to get rid of its components, if you still caught it.

If you feel special mischievous you may avoid anything about "telemetry".

Otherwise i suggest to "Update the crap out out it", you will not get much more then currently available anyway.