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 https://cdn2.minitool.com/?p=pw&e=pw-free - make sure you don't boot from the drive you wanna zap.
/nosanitize
@th3j35t3r Nope, was an old boot drive I wanna completely nuke. TY so much🙏
@Tail Or burn a GParted ISO to DVD, boot from and use that to kill that whole ass disk and repartiotion however you like >>
https://gparted.org/download.php
@th3j35t3r I don't think I can boot from anything but the main boot drive, can't get into my BIOS to change the boot order or anything like that.
@Tail why can't you get into your bios? oem?
// @th3j35t3r
@evistre As soon as I got my laptop, first thing I did was try to secure it. So I put an admin password on the BIOS.
... And IMMEDIATELY forgot what it was. I'd had a couple margaritas and it was just a bad idea.
I've done all the steps possible down to removing the CMOS battery and everything but no go. I'd have to RMA it to MSI for them to fix it.
@evistre Yup, I've done absolutely everything. I've left the batter out for days, tried power cycling the crap out of it, all that stuff. No idea. Of course, I haven't called MSI about it but I don't think they could tell me anything I haven't already tried. I was so surprised that taking the CMOS battery out didn't work.
@Tail huh... you really should be able to reset the bios with the cmos battery. while it's out are you pressing the power button or anything?