Restored my x220 to the old SSD (which is smaller than my old drive), and pared down the drive from 90gb to 30gb by cleaning out the windows.old and background download folders (I have backups), and moving or deleting things.
@DragonLord Do what you enjoy, and pay no attention to what others do. You'd probably be happier answering a few questions a day (but maybe 10 is too much), doing a few reviews, making a few flags... mixes it up, gets rid of the monotony, and lets you help every "aspect" of the site in a small way
focusing on one specific aspect because someone else does a lot of it can lead to your losing perspective
There's enough time in my schedule to allow it, but keep in mind that I keep tabs for each answer I post open for at least three days since posting it. This can mean dozens of tabs and dozens of answers to keep track of.
It'll consume most of my free time, though.
I tried (and succeeded in) posting five answers as part of a Winter Bash challenge (and I was the only one to earn the Bill Lumbergh hat on Super User), but it nearly exhausted me and left very little time for my usual review tasks.
BitLocker to Go volumes are fully supported on Windows 7 and later. For compatibility with systems running Windows XP or Windows Vista, a utility called BitLocker to Go Reader is provided to enable read-only access to the volume on these older systems.
The BitLocker to Go Reader, bitlockertogo.e...
> To use BitLocker To Go Reader on a computer that is running Windows XP or Windows Vista, your BitLocker-protected removable drive must be formatted by using the exFAT, FAT16, or FAT32 file system. If the drive is NTFS formatted, it can only be unlocked on a computer that is running Windows 7.
This might be a clue to the answer.
Hence:
> Does this mean that it leaves a portion of the volume's filesystem metadata unencrypted for this purpose? (If so, how does it do this without interfering with the rest of the filesystem?)
Got an 8GB flash drive here, FS header started at offset 0x4000 (sector 32), at 0x4020 4 bytes little-endian (FAT32 total sector count): E0 8B EE 00
With 512-byte sectors, that's ~8GB.
I can also see a second FAT header down at sector 38 (0x4C00).
So it looks like they aren't using the FS-partsize mismatch trick
But instead somehow actually reserving space in the FS itself
...can't be bothered digging into it any more at this time.
Here's my half-written now-useless answer :P
<sup>*Note: this answer is based on the sources listed at the bottom, not experimental data. I will update with experimental data if/when I find the opportunity to perform the relevant tests. I offer no guarantees on the correctness of this information.*</sup>
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## Filesystem theory
First, a little bit of filesytem theory. There are two 'sizes' that might be relevant to a volume:
* The filesystem (FAT32, exFAT, NTFS, etc.) size. This is defined as part of the filesystem itself, somewhere in its metadata.
I still know nothing about the win10 activation key method, but one odd thing, dude says all the product keys shown by the systems post 10 updates are the same.
I am still wondering about the ~2 su postings that a error was presented that it was using a "generic" key. Plus the "this device has been to the strore or updating to much" however that error goes.
I think i did get a consencus though on one aspect. After upgrading, the activation process took a bit of time. people worrying that it would not ever activate, just waited time and it self activated.
superuser.com/questions/947225/… "Device Limit Reached" "Windows 10 you can install apps and games on up to only 10 devices per Microsoft Account" Account that makes sence
Account just like google account at play store. Which still leaves some of those questions about the nessesity of a microsoft account. I do not have a problem with a google or microsoft account. It just goes back to some of the issues i had with the online e-mail program from microsoft NOT needing an account, but was still connecting to MS every run and every close anyway.
After people said it did not require a MS account, Mr. Firewall still said it would connect. While opening the e-mail program was probably Phish check, while Leaving the program it connecting again, has no excuse.
There are other things that do not seem to ever get discovered. (how that happens with router logs and firewall fanatics) When reading an article they often see the obvious, and have a fit about it, even figure out how to stop it. But looking here there often seems to be 1-2 things completely missed. If your going to lock the system to fully secure, then miss stuff, Why Bother :-)
I percieve there are people out there running Bogus versions of the OS , spending hours making sure that microsoft does not know. And well they do :-) Even if you hit all the articals and ways and means, the info itself often didnt even see it all.
And other WHYs. like how come my system would connect to MS for various disgnostic & error stuff turned on in the pro version. When i had followed the prescribed method to turn it off, and opt-out, but it was still factually on even stated that it did the work. Most of this stuff is not a secret to the OS :-)
what is important about bogus versions? they often have a lot of problems that do not get fixed because they are paranoid to connect to the update servers and get them up to speed. 2 major slop piles of updates have already come in for 10 and a SR1 comming out.
So you have people comming in to any of the "help" locations, reporting problems that exist only because they will not update. They will not reveal that they "did not update" Or Subtely "Is not conneted to the web to update" or are using a pre-releace, because they think it will activate forever. The people trying to help saying "i do not have that problem" the bogus version saying they do.
Big freaking waste of time for people trying to help, and Me trying to figure out if I will have the same problems.
I oddly support the same ideals and methods as the pirates , while running a colonial flagship fully paid for . For 100% completely different reasons. I do not want my use tracked anon or not , I want the system i paid for, to work the same connected as disconnected. i want the system to be as simple as possible. In observation if there is "nothing else going on" I can tell what is going on. With all the stuff going on and out, it is hard to tell if some virus or malware is doing something.
I am not paranoid at all, just because I want the system to work after the zombie apocalypse.
I do (and want to) manually control updates too, but only so I can see the actual effect to the system the update has had. without that i am just blindly driving straight into a brick wall.
If you hear what you think is someone breaking into your house, you go all quiet , and listen. if the OS and all it's activity will not STFU for a few minutes, how do you tell if someone is breaking in our out of your computer. The dog sleeping over there in the corner (the Anti Virus and firewall) has proved before it will sleep right through, you being robbed and abused.
@Psycogeek From [here](http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/Windows-10-specifications)
"Some editions are excluded: Windows 7 Enterprise, Windows 8/8.1 Enterprise, and Windows RT/RT 8.1. Active Software Assurance customers in volume licensing have the benefit to upgrade to Windows 10 enterprise offerings outside of this offer."
There's also KingFast, KingRich, KingSpec etc. on AliExpress. Why would folks buy such delicated and sensitive storage device from likes of AliExpress? Don't they care about data?
@Boris_yo got metal "split rings" they are the only things so far i use on my keys that last time, even smaller ones, or combos of a small one to reach the small ring on the device, and a larger split ring one to the main ring. problem with any thing else is tiny ammounts of wear, eventually breaking through.
From the reviews on the "magic string", even it can get wear, or they are using a cheap clone of it. I think it would beat most strings, and bands.
@Boris_yo And that is just the thing, a weak point on the device itself, may be the weakest thing there. the plastic breaking through on Garage door openers and Car key remotes, and car alarm remotes.
@Boris_yo and connected to what? soldered to the USB ground casing, or the PCB?
or just in a molded hole in the plastic
@Boris_yo See the tiny string on the sandisk, Gone. a laynard with those tiny strings is a piece of nylon fishing line or small metal line, with braided nylon around it. that style of laynayrd only lasted about 2 months on my flashlight.
Big paracord and bulkey laynard materials are less practical for the small stuff, but you can wear through it 1/2 way and it is still clinging on.
I have one of the smllest micro readers and micro stick in it that exists. and while I would carry it in a pocket, i would never put it on a ring .
Might wear it around my neck :-) geek bling. but i just fear damaging it mostly.
at least with a stick the metal around the USB connect should hold up under much wear. but then you also have those people who said thier USB plastic insulator parts (that plastic piece in the metal) can come loose. add in some pocket lint and all.
the big clunkey stuff can come with caps, or slides out or flips to protect, and has larger tie-on areas. with a smaller cool micro tech stuff, it might want to be treated way better.
@Boris_yo the metal ring on the microlight though will last forever.
This style (although this one is never used) also broke at the small string. Nice idea and hand hold, and i was expecting any flaw to be where the 2 different materials come together. but it was the small string part that wore and broke.
@user285oo6 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc_Audio_track Is probably standard CD audio wave file items. the wiki there pointing out that they are pointers only. but none the less it could probably be audio "ripped" because at least some aspect of the CDs are similar to Audio cds that you get an album on (10 years ago:-)
I am wondering if i could answer about 30 questions with the same thing "so what the freak did you think windows 10 would work like when it first came out, uninstall it and wait 6 months"
(not an answer)
Su is about to get a whole new User Base. As the long term experts who lived with 800 patches and 4 OSes are not going to be Full Time using win10 just now. But a lot of users without Rep, are not budging from 10 at all, working with it only , and discovering all the nuances and tweaks, and fixes via the web.
My laptop's Aptio UEFI firmware doesn't allow me to set the ATA password. Can I set the password under Windows and expect to see a password prompt at boot time, or will the system stop working?
and there has been a much greater expansion of the OS (via programs) being allowed to communicate and change the hardware (adjustment items) than before. which is kinda strange , as they flip flop from exposing the hardware , to protecting it.
just a few years ago , the answer for "can virus take out hardware" was no way no how. Now i could believe that on my motherboard, they can shut off the fans, jam up the voltage, and change the clock. and i really doubt the motherboard OC software is all that secured.
Encryption scares me, hard enough to access data when something goes wrong. Lukily i have no corporate secrets or activity i need to keep prying eyes from seeing.
So it was very interesting to read what you and bob were saying about , whatever read only compatabilty stuff to be able to get stuff back off when things go badly.
BitLocker to Go volumes are fully supported on Windows 7 and later. For compatibility with systems running Windows XP or Windows Vista, a utility called BitLocker to Go Reader is provided to enable read-only access to the volume on these older systems.
The BitLocker to Go Reader, bitlockertogo.e...
"if you lose your password your data is gone. Forever. There is NO recovery." like I lose my keys :-) i have forgot my dog once at a gas station and drove off. 30 minutes later we make it back and he is looking at me like "WTF were you thinking arsehole"
I keep my array of passwords on a paper, because 1 year later logging back into Sony.com like who is going to remember that?
Acer is not a brand you'd normally associate with gaming systems, but their new Predator machines are loaded to the teeth with cutting-edge technology: us.acer.com/ac/en/US/press/2015/162326
Acer jumped onboard the Skylake bandwagon as soon as it was announced, a bit unusual for a PC brand normally associated with mainstream hardware.
(They do make nice monitors—my 21.5" IPS display is an Acer, and it's not bad at all especially for the price)
@DragonLord ...unless an attacker gains kernel-mode within the OS, from where they can update efi vars, overwrite the OS side of the bootloader, or just mess up the OS in general :P
Select external media are still encrypted (it's easier to lose an external hard drive or flash drive than a whole laptop).
As I said, my File History external hard drive is BitLocker encrypted.
> The Acer Predator G6-710 desktop PC will be available mid-September in Europe with prices starting at €1,999, and from October in North America with pricing and configurations announced at that time.
The laptop I'm using right now was $2174 at build time and has another $575 worth of aftermarket upgrades (most of which is in SSDs, along with an extra 16 GB of RAM).
I am still trying to figure out why 1 MS home licecene is 100$ and still 100Eu As stated by some poeple , identifying the price as high. When i thought it was cheap.
@DragonLord if everything they are buying is simlar priced, but the exchange rate is wacked different. are we missing an oppertunity here to make 30% of everything :-)
@ToolPurger yes why not. Cause now i need your great math skills, calculate the GDP of all of europe subtract the exchange rate , and add in the percentage charged when exchanging money, and tell me how rich i should be.
From what I understand @Psycogeek he is convinced that both the light in the fridge and tissue popping up when you pull out a tissue is caused directly by aliens.
Compatibility was initially an issue, but that's no longer being considered. I have other drives if I need to transfer data to a system that does not support BitLocker to Go.
As I said, it's easier to lose external media than the whole laptop.
