Since I just added but did not remove a drive to my laptop how do I set the SSD as C: .
I am currently trying to install windows on it but think it is currently marked as F:
pretty much has all the steps you should do, in that order?
if it is too short or you need help understanding one step, feel free to ask, because we often don’t see that normal people don’t understand a tech-lingo-term.
I made this problem way harder for myself and will get back to this once I fix my current problem.
The short details
- made a clone of C: to the ssd
- then stupidly reinstalled windows on c:
- now working to move the clone back to c: so I can be at zero to begin with
- misformated the ssd so cannot boot to it even if it is an option lol.
How anyone does anything on computers is a mystery.
Some LInux nerds .exe let me fix the fucking boot nonsense. Now I am recopying my windows build on the ssd back to my hdd before I even try anything else.
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For future reference EasyBCD is a fantastic program that would have saved me a lot of headache. A+ in my book.
Simply added the windows build from the SSD made it my main boot and worked where nothing else did. I haven’t been this mad at technology in a while.
oh yeah easyBCD is the only sane way to do that stuff without just booting Linux
Sorry I haven’t done that kind of juggling on Windows in ages, forgot. It’s the highest praise I can think of that it doesn’t seem like a windows tool.
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I am going to let it sit for two weeks and if there are no problems then will wipe the hdd’s c: drive and have some fun.
God help me one of these days I might actually invest in a USB optical drive
the Keychron K4 is my dream keyboard
colour, layout, size, typeface, compatibility, price
They should really have PBT keycaps in something they’re marketing for Mac folks.
I think PBT is a big reason the Model M is perceived as durable and quality - it feels nice to have the grit, but it also doesn’t shine like black ABS boards or yellow like the 90s brominated plastic.
You can get cheap sets for standard layouts made by NPKC for around $20. The improvement in feel and resonance is up there with switch choice imo.
Btw y’all these little feet are baffling because they make your wrist bend back against its normal range. I can only guess that typewriters are also to blame here.
If your keyboard has any slope from front to back it should be negative.
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backstory: the other night I was playing the PSO2 beta through my capture card and after a few hours, the sound freaks the fuck out. I check the card’s control center and see that the CPU driving is going past 105C, which is… understandable since I unplugged the fan on its cooler because it was old and loud.
so! I mess around with the fan and oh hey, it’s louder now, so I kill that idea again and also I not that just idling there in my case, it’s shooting up to 100C. okay, so I figure it must be my case intake fans. I swap the bottom fan out and hey, the card is running at 70 now.
now, the fan is still nice, it has fancy red LEDs and is quiet , so I figure I can shove it in the breadbox and make things look neat in the dark.
I can’t help but feel like, on some level, I deserve this.
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I had been using ABS until I got my Pok3r and yeah, the PBT makes such a difference, holy crap.
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don’t be a maybe and go all in.
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I think I just shorted out my Macbook because I am a careless idiot. i had it on the floor for a while, basically on top of a nest of cords, in particularly the extension cord it was plugged into. I grabbed it to pick up and sparks flew from the extension cord which was fried where the laptop was sitting on it. now the computer won’t turn on. I unplugged everything and disconnected the battery. I am probably screwed here right?
give it a few hours, sometimes (rarely) electronics will recover after a short like that
mmk. I’ll let it rest
yeah nope, still a brick. ugh
More or less this same happened to one of my laptops once, but when I swapped out the battery (like $25 from ebay) it was fine, maybe give that a shot
do not buy a $25 macbook battery because they’re all garbage below a certain threshold but if you feel like taking a risk to the tune of more like $70 then maybe yeah
I’m not sure whether some models of macbook will attempt to boot with no battery at all, you could crack it and take it out as a start. battery replacement is the one thing that’s still really easy on current macbooks, you just need a torx screwdriver and that’s packaged in with all the decent replacements on ebay