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Re:Microsoft explains the lack of Registry backups in Window... by cardiffspaceman on Monday July 01, 2019 @06:35PM (#20330405)
One of the earliest Win10 updates was "bricking" machines if a device was in the SD card slot during the update process. Guess where my update media were?

The machine became a Debian machine. It was "bricked" only to the extent that there was no way forward from the failed update to getting Windows back.

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Re:Microsoft explains the lack of Registry backups in Window... by flukus on Monday July 01, 2019 @09:21PM (#20331299)
Reminds me of my Nokia 3 which is stuck in a non up-gradable loop. What I think is happening is that the the new image is downloaded to the SD card, then when you restart to upgrade the SD card isn't mounted so the upgrade fails, then you reboot again and you've lost all your shortcuts to apps on the SD card. I'm not sure if it's the image itself on the SD card or something else required but it's obvious Nokia don't spend much on QA.
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