#my new motherboard is UEFI not BIOS so my usual SSD is apparently not a valid bootable drive. so I had to fucking..

[robotwrangler]

I am having an absolute shit of a time with one of my new pc components & have been troubleshooting and painstakingly moving shit around for literally 7 and a half hours now but NO progress at all -_-

#don’t bother reading these tags actually they’re long and incomprehensible #my new motherboard is UEFI not BIOS so my usual SSD is apparently not a valid bootable drive. so I had to fucking.. #make an installable windows 10 drive out of a usb using my shitass slow half-dead laptop which took 2 hours #then install it on my new M2 to use that for booting instead of the SSD #but I don’t wanna deal with fresh windows 10 and all the messing with settings bullshittery #so I tried cloning my SSD system to my new M2 #but it won’t work while I’m currently hosting windows on that M2.. you have to clone a drive to another drive while not using either #so I tried installing windows on one of my hard disk drives so that I could boot from that & deal with the other two #but incredibly. even tho it’s UEFI and therefore the right type of drive for this #it still doesn’t count as bootable and does not show up in the boot priority list #so I was like ok whatever. and formatted the HDD and cloned the SSD to it #but now the partitions are all fucked up and idk what to do with partitions they’re fucked #I hate windows so much I hate it soooo so much #I just wanna play warframe is that so goddamn hard to ask?? #I should’ve just manually moved things bit by but & dealt with the sucky experience of personalising windows #bc it almost definitely would’ve taken less time #I feel like this is even less fun but if I do manage it it’ll be better than the alternative #I literally JUST had to do a fresh windows install 4 months ago and I don’t wanna do it again this soon.. I’ve not recovered from it yet..