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So I have a partition ready for Win10 but my question is will I still be able to access my other partitions once Win10 is installed? I keep hearing about the "recovery partition won't be able to be used" and I'm wondering if Win10 just doesn't play nice or if I'm good to go.
 
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If you want to try out Win 10, download VMWare player and install in a VM, its easier to blow it off if you don't like it, rather than messing with partitions and boot manager.
 
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I like going into full detail with operating systems and I like seeing how well it runs on my hardware.
 
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VMPlayer has hardware acceleration
 
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Don't really know, i installed it on my second PC because of same question that you have, it should not mess up other stuff on PC but im just not brave enough, i do some of the work from job on my primary PC and i would not risk it with "beta OS", but also as i remember i had all previous Windows "demo/preview" on my PC and it never did anything wrong!?
 
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I probably should wait then for the official release to get it and play with it.
 
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Well on my second PC i don't have any sensitive data as i deleted the whole disk for sake of "preview" install, but if there are more people interested in this i can fill partitions with data and re-install "Win 10"?!

EDIT: I read the whole "Win 10 official" thread here on forum and 99% says its working super, only that you cant revert your "Win 10 OS" to previous OS, you will need to re-install it or if you have multi-boot just remove "Win 10", so it pretty much secure but if you have really sensitive data i would back it up anyways!?
 
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