Storytime: Yesterday I was bored of my 300ish games on steam. Re-booting my win 10 pc. (i7 9700k 4.7mhz Acore,z390 prime -a, 3000mhz cl15,rtx 2060).
I read online about optane. Hmm could this speed up my drive? I think about “My pc taking almost 2 minutes to reboot”. I check my “time in bios” under startup. 12sec… uhhh Could it be ANY slower?
I decide to read the manual/instructions for optane memmory. Apparently I need to have my drives in GPT mode(not MBR) for partitions to work with an optane drive. Maybe using UEFI instead of legacy my pc might boot faster, so i thought.
I happen to figure out that you can losslessly convert a partition to that format using a “new” (to me) feature mbr2gpt.exe that some nice person at MS added to the operating system. SO i convert it. Everything went fine. I change to UEFI in bios. And, my boot time is now 20SEC!! WhAT? this is not what i wanted.
Now i notice that I have a partition on (not C:\ drive) that also has a partition that is used for “boot manager”. So i delete it. You might see where this is going?
I restart. fine. Same slow boot. Then i figure. maybe mbr2gpt.exe “left” the old legacy partition? oh no. Me tired and excited delete the partition for C:\ “recovery” the one that is used for BOOTING at all. Now win 10 does not have a “space” to boot. I’m fucked.
Easy fix? I can just DL win 10 iso and reinstall? Not for me… I have a usb key with 4GB memory. And apparently iso size is 16GB?
So i use it to install PoPOS and google how to “recover the partition” and what ended up happening is that I use gparted and test disk to overwrite my C:\drive that was previously only missing a partition space for booting to now being completely wiped.
Now I’m sitting here and wondering if I’m stuck with using Linux until I can get another USB to fit win 10 iso on.
(the reason is that i used win 7 disk to install and upgrade to win 10) and with my dad throwing away my “dumb” keyboard that can be “handed over” from UEFI to OS while booting from CD in legacy mode, makes me unable to use the CD. (I have no other keyboard).
So I you read this far, does anyone know if it is possible to install part of “minimum” copy of ISO for win 10 on a 4GB usb stick? or directly to a drive? Using linux of course.
If not I guess I’m stuck here on POPos unable to play Cyberpunk, unless I buy a USB (if that works with keyboard to install) or worst case, i need a new keyboard and a new copy of win 10…