1961

Great to have you back and having to set up your PC! :)

The research I found on that code had several explanations; one being that it was an admin permission issue on certain files that were corrupted or some such thing. This was my old computer that my son took over so I suspect that it was something he did over time without the usual carefulness I had when the computer was mine.

Now that we have it upgraded not sure if it better to do a clean install or not. He really only uses it for gaming and I figure we can always do the clean install once he runs into problems with a future game.

1962

See if they are showing up in disk management and make sure they have a drive letter assigned. Just a thought.

1963

On the missing drives, Jeff, I’d guess that maybe you have a secondary controller on your motherboard that drivers aren’t installed for. I’d go to the Asus page for your motherboard and download/install all of the driver packages related to hard drive controllers.

1964

Yep, or maybe just run Windows update and see if there is a driver for your board in the index. I’m guessing there probably is.

1965

OK this is bizarre. The drive is marked as “foreign” in disk management storage tools. I have no idea why, but it’s my game drive with 2.5 TB of data, backups and games. I am worried and don’t want to lose all the data. The drive shows up fine in device manager too.

1966

I right clicked my gigantic hard drive that had been labeled foreign and its now a functional hard drive. However it is now a “DYNAMIC” drive with an olive green color instead of the blue color used for other hard drives. And all my other hard drives are “BASIC”.

Should all my disks be Basic, or should they be Dynamic? I’m tired and confused. There are all SATA 6 drives.

1967

Had my first glitch with my recent upgrade to 10, but it was thankfully pretty minor: the new start menu refused to open. Checking online, there are numerous counts of this happening, different approaches to get it working again (with differing success rates), and any number of theories as to why it happened. Thankfully, all I had to do was right-click and tell it to restart, but it didn’t leave a good impression.

1968

Jeff, the Dynamic vs. Basic is just a formatting thing. Won’t make any visible difference to operation, so don’t worry about it.

1969

This will nice, having all my files visible to me from the desktop.

1970

Dynamic volumes can also be resized and span across multiple disks in JBOD or RAID. Doesn’t really matter, but dynamic is better.

1971

Holy cow, that was easy. Christmas-Miracle easy. I just upgraded from Win 8.1. It took about an hour. The closest thing to an annoyance was that it logged me out of Netflix.

My action plan: Keep Calm and Log Back In.

1972

I find Dynamic volumes to be more risky if you are spanning multiple physical hard drives. I would use some sort of pooling software like drive bender which has a lot more resiliency built in. Unless maybe dynamic volumes has changed in win 10. I haven’t looked at it in years.

If you want to convert dynamic to basic non destructively take a look at:
http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

I’ve used that tool a few times for various partitioning tasks and it’s pretty amazing for a free product. I would backup anything important first though just in case.

1973

So, now all my documents and save files in My Documents, are write protected… And if I remove that protection, they REVERT back to write protected… what the hell, Microsoft? This means, I cant start Xcom:Enemy within anymore.

1974

Honeymoon over. I swapped out an nvidia GTX 660 for an nvidia GTX 960, which I thought was seemingly straightforward. Win10 seemed puzzled for a bit, but eventually sorted itself out. Then a popup says ‘hey, new driver available’ (direct from nVidia) so I go ahead and grab it. Fails to install. So I do a clean driver install. Fails to install. So I use DDU from Safe Mode to really do a clean driver install. Fails to install. Fine, I’ll just go back to the older one Win10 put on. Fails to install. Try an older version from nVidia. Fails to install.

Final solution? ‘Reset my PC’ (ie., reinstall Win10). Not terribly amusing. Oddly, the other system that went from an AMD Radeon 6850 to the GTX 660 seemed to sort itself out without issue. Of course, I’m scared to touch it or attempt a driver update at this point.

1975

I gifted myself a GTX 970 to replace my 6950 last night so I’m hoping it goes a bit smoother than all that.

1976

Gamers should always turn off automatic driver updates.

Just one of the many annoying pains in the ass that come with windows 10.

1977

I tried to turn driver updates off, but it doesn’t seem to work all that good. Windows 10 still downloads and then prompts me that an update failed. Uh, no, Windows 10: it didn’t fail. It’s just a driver that I don’t want installed automatically.

It’s so annoying.

1978

Windows 7 and 8 also did driver updates… try to keep your rage on target ;)

1979

You could opt out easier, I believe. This new madness is, uh, new.

1980

Agreed, but in this particular case, it was a driver direct from nVidia that lead me down the merry path to hell. To be fair, I don’t think it was actually the driver - I think Win 10 somehow thought I had both a GTX 660 and 960 and it wigged out. This was partially my fault for not doing a full driver uninstall prior to swapping cards, but I figured nVidia to nVidia should transparent…