[deanhills]

I intentionally made this Windows 10 partition so small. Instead, I have a large FAT32 partition, so that I can use it for storing and sharing files between different OSes on the PC.

Now this really looks like being on top of things rather than them on you.  For sure.  Best of all worlds in direct proportion to what you think works the best for your situation.  

I'm taking a pause before my next attempt to test Windows 10 on my laptop.  This time I want to do a clean install, and see whether I can use my previous upgrade from Windows 7 to 10 digital Product Number .  If that doesn't work, I'll try my Windows 7 Professional Product key.

In the meanwhile I got sidetracted, as I really like my Thinkpad X201 with Windows 7.  After making a Lenovo advanced backup and restore image, and Windows 7 backup and restore image, I got sidetracted with checking out cloning and how it works.  I thought it would be neat that if I wanted to get rid of Windows 10 again, if I could then simply use a clone tool in a few seconds to get back to where I was before.  Took me a while to understand one would then require a large external disk for it, and most clone tutorials use internal disks of similar size to clone the contents of the source disk.  Cloning seems to be particularly useful with guys who are changing to SSD from HDD.  So I'm now even looking at internal 2.5 inch laptop disks and to use a USB to Sata cable along with free software to clone my laptop.  An interesting project in its own right.  Maybe another thread about this later.