Interesting guide - you are moving on a territory I am not familiar with. Perhaps we should split this to a separate topic? What would be the title?
Is there a reason not doing this using standard Windows partitioning tools, or Gparted?
Hiya!
Not sure which part of the process you’re referring to - I am using standard windows partitioning tools to clean the usb drive before using the regular media creation tool from microsoft.
If you’re referring to rEFInd - that’s just some silly thing I was looking into because I got tired of how the internal linx bootloader sometimes doesn’t see the usb. rEFInd sees it every time, and it was not difficult to ‘inject’ it into the standard linx installation.
rEFInd doesn’t however deal with partitions, so I’m not sure I’m correctly understanding the question. Still, I do think that this should probably be in a separate topic, since this one is pretty long and people could scroll over it as they’re browsing the whole thread, and I think it’s a nice guide which is applicable to most of these hubs and most linx/lamina devices.
Dear Vulpix,
Your guide is excellent and got me al the way to the reboot 
Then comes the question: Upgrade or advanced install (Clean/fresh installation)
According to the post Nr61:" With the update you should not need many drivers. The last time I did it only the automatic screen rotation needed fixing by adding a driver and a .reg file patch."
I guees it’s Upgrade so of course I choosed the upgrade!
Then the installation starts. After a while it says something like: The computer was started with Windows Install.media. Disconnect the installationmedia and reboot so that windows starts normally. Then reconnect the installationmedia and restart the Upgrade from the desktop…etc". Doing exactly that and going to the desktop - nothing there that wasn’t there before. If I from here go the the restore options, I can reset from the UEFA shell using the stick created with the mediatool and am able to boot the stick from there. Start windows upgrade and ends at the same point with with my old problem with insuffient memory etc.
So if I am supposed to make a clean install removing al the files keeping nothing I guess I’ll have my old problem back with missing drivers.
So please tell should I make a clean install and what about the drivers needed? Bear in mind my Lamina 7 do not have 32Gb of memory as the new releases has.
Very kind regards
LarsN
Hello @LarsN ,
It seems that you may not have an option but to perform a clean reinstall. I tried checking if it’s possible to delete the recovery partition and free up some space, but since you have a 16gb device, the recovery partition is actually being used for WIMBoot; which means that the recovery image/main wim file is being used not just for recovery but also for normal functionality of the system. Therefore, it is not possible to delete, relocate or otherwise modify this partition (you could delete it from within some kind of linux environment for example, but you would end up with unbootable system!) and thus not possible to free up enough space to be able to install w10 via upgrade.
Therefore, I highly recommend you create an initial backup of your device using Clonezilla (I can create a quick guide on how to do this). With this backup, you’ll be able to “go back” regardless of what happens (I believe @Admin can attest to this ). After you have this backup, follow the installation advice in this thread to perform a clean installation of windows 10. It may take some time to get everything working, but all of the drivers should be available here as well, plus microsoft now has a lot of them on windows update as well, so once you get any kind of connectivity, you should be able to get the rest of the drivers, no problem.
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Hi Vulpix,
Thanks for your effort! I would really like to keep trying and to clone my device before trying the clean install again. As I recal that last time I tried it, it worked but no front camera, back camera 90Degrees of ,only fixed orientation and some other features were missing. In order to correct that i downloaded the HP drivers and that was a catastrophy. After that no USB-keyboard response, built in keybord was 180 degrees of. So i had to send back to Captech for a restore back to factory settings - got it back after 5 weeks. And this was the second time!
So a guide to clone with Clonezilla would be appreciated. Could it also show how to reinstall the clone?
Thanks again for yor patience.
Kind regards
LarsN
@LarsN , please check the guide over here: HOW-TO: Complete CloneZilla backup and recovery of your Linx/Lamina/Windows x86 tablet . I posted it as a separate topic so that it wouldn’t lengthen this already-long thread. If you have any questions, feel free to ask!
Dear Vulpix
It’s a pleasure ro read and follow your instructions, so I can testify they are Fool Proof 
Just in case you’re as crazy as me to experiment with this, and just in case there was any doubt, Linx supports 128GB SDXC cards!
Performance is quite okay for bigger files, averaging about 14MB/s write 23MB/s read, so no different from pretty much any of the other sd cards I’ve used before.
Just want to report that the clean install is done.
Now I need drivers since I do not have:
Touchscreen - Nonresponsive screenkeyboard. Only USB-Keyboard
Camera
orientation locked
SD-card reader
maybe more I didn’t realize yet.
I do have WiFi though.
So do I use the drivers in comment 1? I am not sure I dare use the HP7 drivers.
I believe that a new bunch of Linx7drivers were launched november 2015
I also managed to joggle the USB-switch between pos 1 keyboard and USB sticks active and pos 2 charging the battery when it was just installing and working on its own. So I have had it on the whole day without any powershortage. The Hub in comment 44 is working just fine.
In windows the pos 2 allows both keyboard, USB stick and charging
Kind regards
LarsN
Well, I have had similar success with both drivers, the originals and HP Stream 7. Therefore I don’t see any reason why you shouldn’t. However, I don’t think anyone knows for a fact whether different Linx 7 units have differences in hardware. It is totally possible, especially in this price category.
Dear Admin and Vulpix!
Tanks to you guys and this forum I AM UP AND RUNNING windows 10 on a Lamina7 purchased april 2015 with 16Gb internal storage and SD card of 64Gb where I am able to install Apps and programs. Camera works, screen orientation right after applying the instructions above. I also had a reason to learn al the keyboards shortcuts in order to navigate on the screen with no touch sensibility and without a mouse.This page was a lifesaver: Keyboard shortcuts in Windows.
Now I’ll make a clone of the disc before I move on experimenting.
Hi again.
After installing office 365 and chrome there wasn’t any space left on C: Updates from windows couldn’t download. Uninstalling chrome was enough but it stil installed on C: in spite of the storage settings - new apps to D: (also office 365 installs automatically to C:
Found this workaround on Chrome
forum:
"ds1055 sa:
The only thing I have figured out to kick Chrome to another drive (must-do for me since my SSD and Chrome don’t get along - Waiting for cache all the time) is by way of directory junctions.
Basically, before install (or cut/paste to new directory after install, then run commands) run the following commands:
mklink /J “C:\Users{username}\AppData\Local\Google” “”
mklink /J “C:\Program Files (x86)\Chrome” “”
So, as an example, the commands I ran were:
mklink /J “C:\Users\David\AppData\Local\Google” “F:\Chrome_Data\Appdata”
mklink /J “C:\Program Files (x86)\Chrome” “F:\Chrome_Data\Program Files”
Long story short, when browsing through it LOOKS like you are still on the C: drive, except for a mildly different icon. When the installer runs it doesn’t know the difference. Basically, its like switching the tracks on a rail road. You follow the same path, but once you hit the switch you go in a different direction.
It works flawlessly."
Do you think this would work for the Lamina? The idea is to have as much space as possible on C: to make room for swap-files for the system in order to work more smoothely.
Kind regards
LarsN
It’ll work, as long as you use the right path. This is the same as symlinks in linux, I use them myself.
Is it just me or have the recent Windows 10 updates actually improved things?
I haven’t even used my Lamina 7 but I am currently writing this with the tablet. Suddenly the wifi seems to be reliable, even from my mobile phone hotspot, making this useful again.
How is yours?
I never had any issues but my linx is currently gathering dust because without fast user switching, it’s useless to me 
and no, the updates have not done anything to that… but I never had any wifi issues on my linx to begin with, so I can’t say.
Yeah, mine has been very bad, especially with Windows 10:
- Bad reception even at home, where I have a high performance wifi-router giving plenty of coverage.
- Terrible with mobile hotspots - I have had to keep Linx less than 0.5 meters away from the source to get a signal.
- Wifi driver/adapter dies when in sleep mode.
It’s been a few months since I used it, but now I grabbed it and fetched the latest updates. Suddenly it worked Ok at home and even picked up my mobile from several meters away. Weird. As I have bought the HDMI-cable, maybe I can a start using it again as a portable Netflix player.
Personally, since running a VPS for a bit, I wonder if linx could do the same. I’m going to try and get ubuntu 16.04LTS running on one of them to see if they would work as a cheap VPS box. I mean, most of those have the same parameters. 1 core (we get 4 here), 20-30GB SSD, 1GB ram… sounds like linx to me. And the system eats about 150MB of ram when up and running so it sounds like the perfect task. I’ll post back with results, probably in a new topic. (and yes technically not a VPS, but you know what I mean 
)
The Linx / Baytrail should have plenty of horsepower for server tasks. A modern Linux distribution should work, but you need to figure out the UEFI boot issues first. Also display driver, using the internal panel, may be challenge. There are however many stiick-PCs built on Baytrail and some ship with ubuntu.
FYI, if RAM becomes a bottleneck, you can boost that with zRam.
I have a lamina 8’ and I made a fresh instal of win 10 (wipe recovery) and used the drivers for linx8/lamina t-801 ,and it work .Today I made again a fresh instal, everything works fine excepting the touch wich is very inacurate ,I pres somewhere down on the screen and i get the touch working somewhere else.What did I do wrong? , I reinstal the fresh version a few times allready today and I have the same problem with the touch .thank you
I cannot speak for the 801, as I only have the 7" slab, but just to confirm: Which/what touch driver did you use for the clean install?