On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 10:19:13 -0800 John Andersen wrote:
I buy laptops with the smallest drive possible. I immediately buy a separate compatible drive, (and a drive tray if needed/possible) and install linux on that, putting the small drive on the shelf against possibility that the machine will need warranty service. If it never does, and the warranty expires, I re-purpose the original drive into an external enclosure.
I do worry if this will be possible with UEFI, or if more and more of UEFI will be stored on the original hard drive along with your only backup copy of the original operating system.
Great minds think alike :-) but this SSD will be too costly to keep as an idle fallback. My plan is to image it after W10 is fully updated and before I touch any of the partitioning -- assuming I have better luck accessing the partitions on this system than on the last. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org