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 ... ... w... why!? Omg that is so very very fucked up! Who did this, and needs to be sent back to T1 training school!

@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.

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@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.

@Idrake @Tail i got a CCNA cert many years ago. studied my ass off and passed the test. alas, i still didn't get the job i was aiming for. just as well, the company went bankrupt.

@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.

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