These windows/recovery partitions won't let me delete them. All options are greyed out. Any ideas how I can clear the entire drive? I try to convert the drive and it says it isn't supported. It was the OEM drive that I'm trying to convert to just an external drive.
@Tail this explains it. :) all good. Windows disk management cant "shift" around partitions but many 3rd party tools can. But erase everything and build one new simple volume that spans the whole disk is really all you need here.
Good job! :) isn't IT fun?
@Idrake I actually really love the work, even when, and perhaps especially, when it's a pain in the ass.
@Tail I love it so much I made a career out of it. There are few more satisfying things than deploying something complex and getting it setup and running smooth, or working through a major problem and finding a creative solution. You 'almost' need to be a masochist, but IT always brings something new!
@Idrake Will say though that after upgrading, 5 LEDs on my keyboard "died" somehow, and that for whatever reason is one of the most annoying things I've ever experienced. It's driving me nuts.
@Tail wow! Is it a Razer product?
@Idrake MSI laptop, I believe the keyboard is SteelSeries. I used to use Razer peripherals but I found a better keyboard than any of theirs for $50 from some no-name company. Yeah it's probably got some malicious Chinese firmware imbedded in it, idc.
@Tail ungh.. you joke but they have done shit just like that. Fucking fuckers!
@Idrake Oh I know, it's crazy what kinds of stuff you can hide in firmware. If I had anything worth stealing I'd be more cautious, but eh. If they wanted anything from me they'd likely already have it.
@Idrake MSI GS65 Stealth Thin
@Tail I have ran MSI sysboards in my last three rigs, and have mixed feelings.
It is odd that the keyboard lights on a few keys have gone out just because you added a HDD and I would look into firmware, bios, and driver updates for an attempt to fix it. I have seen weird issues fixed by updating those before. Could be the LEDs did just go our, but timing and all that, seems weirdo to me.
@Idrake oh yeah, lol. The first thing I did when I got the thing was brilliantly lock myself out of the BIOS. I've done everything down to removing the CMOS battery and power cycling it and still nothing.🤔 As far as the LEDs go, I'm wondering if I shorted something. It's the O [ ] Backspace and F7 keys. Weird.
Honestly this is my first MSI product as I've found most of their components lacking, but I've been using this thing for years and it still shreds. I'd get another MSI laptop for sure.
@Tail oh good you wanted to wipe it out and start over. I was struggling why this was Disk 2 and it looked like you had a FUBAR partition setup of a mismanaged OS disk.
Yes 100%, wipe it out with 3rd party tools and start over. You could also use DISKPART from command line but that is more of a pain in the ass.
@Idrake Yeah, I've got two M.2 slots so I went to upgrade but turns out only one of the slots supports NVME, ended up taking out the OEM and putting it in an enclosure for backups and such. J hooked me up and it mostly worked perfectly. Couldn't convert it from a dynamic layout to a simple one but I'm not sure how much that matters?
@Tail you're good. Nvme is 100% the way to go for performance rigs too.. my rig i have 2 name professional grade 500gb, setup in raid 0 so I get blazing read and write speeds. Shit loads fast cause I am an impatient bitch that can't stand waiting 10 seconds for stuff to boot up!
@Idrake lol! I'm just on a laptop right now. Building rigs with custom cooling loops is my favorite hobby but it's so expensive. My last build was back with two 980Ti's so it's been a while.
I was studying for my CCNA until my lab got demolished and that really took the wind out of my sails. Technology is so damn hard to keep up with.
@Tail nice! I am more in the server infrastructure myself, windows Linux os, SANs, VMware, backup solutions, replication solutions, inventory and asset management... I know enough networking to be dangerous. CCNA is a good skill to have though. I hear the tests for the cert are hard as eff!
@Idrake That's all the fun stuff! I'm definitely better suited to the hardware aspect than the software part but being adept at Google-Fu is the key skill to have. Knowing how to troubleshoot.
You can plop me down with basically any task and it'll get done, but if you asked me how I did it I wouldn't be able to tell you.
@anatman Ooooof! Did you ever make it into the field? It strikes me as an increasingly competitive market.
@Tail never got into that exact field, but choose to concentrate on programming.
@anatman A safer and more practical specialization imo.
@Idrake lmao, I DID IT. Or at least, that was how the OEM drive was partitioned when I got it.