Recent content by skylerWithAnE

I'm not really worried about opening it up. I had to do that to get to the M.2 slot. But a complete disassembly on a 4 day old laptop doesn't sound fun. I think I might use a Linux live boot disc and reformat the drive into something weird that Windows won't touch, like ext4 or btrfs. Perhaps...

Hmm. I guess I'll just deal with the OS select because the mechanical drive on this laptop is damn near impossible to access. The M.2 was able to be popped in after opening the case. The mechanical, however, requires me to entirely remove the motherboard and flip it over to gain access to the...

The boot setting is UEFI. I didn't clone the drive and image it, I just did a clean install of Windows 10. But, it detected the EFI partition on the mechanical drive and just used that instead of creating its own. Can I fix that without deleting that partition and reinstalling Windows?

So I recently purchased a new laptop. Shortly after receiving it I added an M.2 SSD into an open port on the computer. When I booted up it complained that it couldn't find a bootable drive. I rebooted, hit F12 at post, and I was able to load the current Windows install on the mechanical...