Windows breaks itself, you might be able to “repair” it, but she said she didn’t care about data. Well, shouldn’t have reinstalled it, as the touchpad on the laptop wasn’t even working in the installer.
I forgot Windows needs lots of drivers. Now I have to use a VM on my desktop, to add drivers to the wim file. Doing so with Windows, is probably easier then in Linux. If it’s even possible in Linux, too lazy to keep searching as well.
My custom flash drive boots, but to boot anything other then Windows, I had to disable secure boot. Didn’t try enrolling the key though. Cause Windows 11 installer booted. The touchpad and WiFi both work in Linux without installing any driver. Surprised the flash drive works though.
And to run a power shit script, you have to right click the script and run it that way, as if you open the power shit shell thing, it says you don’t have permission. Nope, not fucking around with Windows to enable permissions to run a script either. Have to extract the exe files from Lenovo’s site, for the drivers, doing so with Linux or 7z in Windows isn’t going to work. The script does all the drivers all at once as well. And I didn’t have to make the script either, don’t know how to make anything in Windows or for Windows.
Well, good reason to not go to college though. I don’t want a Mac or Windows. And you likely need one or the other.
Apparently Windows is slow, at least in a VM. Think it’s Windows 10. Don’t plan on updating the VM, especially if it costs me money.
Also, don’t like malware anyways.
Might go to college though if there’s a massive internet outage, cause then you won’t need any computer to go, might be no power as well. Nothing like making the education system rely on the internet.
The Windows VM disk image is on a NVMe drive. Well, external. Might not be a very good drive, nor a very fast external port. But either way, it’s slow. And I’m blaming Windows.
Well, Christmas is apparently the day of diarrhea. Got home, had the runs. Ate a piece of fudge, more runs. And if I can’t eat certain things with lactose in it, that’s not a good solution, cause it went away. Might as well say it’s random.
Well, the read speed on this SanDick flash drive is fine, let’s see how long it takes to copy the ISO files to it. Somebody claims, you only need a FAT32 partition, and the Windows files to boot. Well, hmm, might need to be exfat though. Good luck with FAT32, that install.wim is over 7 GB. Well, let’s see if exfat will boot. Otherwise, I’ll have to find a way to make an ISO, just to write it with woeusb. Or can woeusb use a folder instead of a ISO?
My PNY is super slow. Won’t buy a flash drive based on brand name, cause I’ve even had SanDick die. That may have been the last one I bought as well.
She needs a flash drive, to backup homework, and to reinstall Windows, if it shits itself again.
If SanDick is faster, then I should buy a 256 GB one, and put all the PNY files on it. Cause the PNY is way too slow. I’ll keep it as a backup though.
Hmm, her laptop has a lot of RAM and space, for just basic homework. Guess Windows needs 32 GB of RAM, I think that’s how much it is. No wonder Windows sucks ass.
The small files, none of the Windows installer crap yet, was fast enough. If it can stay at 50 MB/s, then it’s probably faster. Then again, 10 MB/s is probably faster. USB 3.0 on flash drives can be useless.
Down to 30 MB/s or less, probably not worth buying a SanDick for speed, at least not a cheap one.
No issues ejecting, but I was eating a cookie probably when it finished. Either way, the PNY would still be blinking, and not let me eject it. Not sure why I ate a cookie though, not hungry. Probably cause they taste good. Was going to eat dinner, until I ate a piece of fudge, and more diarrhea came out.
Got some Whiskey flavored fudge too. Might only be able to eat one piece of that. It’s a good Christmas present for somebody that is always talking about whiskey, and making whiskey jokes. Don’t drink whiskey though. Might need to take another runny dump though.
Also, KDE is buggy, it crashed after I ejected the flash drive. Now how do I make this bootable without making a damn ISO?
Well, maybe change to GPT to first, not sure dos works with UEFI anyways. You can set it to be bootable, but not sure that’ll fix it.
I might get a new soundbar though, since no soundbases are sold anymore new. Won’t be Vizio, this one had good reviews, but sounds about the same as most soundbars. And don’t need Atmos. Mom might want it. All I see it doing is taking up room, and speaker wire for the rear speakers plugged into subwoofer. 2.1 channels is plenty for a small apartment, and then I can get a smaller soundbar, and put more crap on the coffee table that soundbar lives on. Or it might come with a wall mount too. I don’t know where the Vizio one is, and that doesn’t solve speaker wire problem. Bose has some on sell. My Bose headphones sound fine. The main reason will be it’s under $200, and it’s small. And there’s a chance I’ll actually like it, non like all the Vizio ones I’ve had. And the Yamaha one I had. And don’t know what other brands if any. The TV speakers might work too, but that might also be worse.
And to make it bootable, you have to have two partitions. I was trying to avoid using Grub. Oh well. And now it’s slowly unmounting.
Well, a small USB SSD would be faster. I have a good SATA SSD enclosure, but good luck finding a good cheap SATA SSD in town. Apparently you can’t resize exfat.
That crashed KDE too. Gparted did.
That reminds me, I took photos, I need to copy those to my computer.
If I get a new soundbar, it’ll be using optical most likely, won’t pay a premium for something I don’t need, like ARC and a HDMI input. Not using a HDMI port just for the soundbar either.
Oddly chainloading to a FAT32 partition works, but exfat doesn’t. So the Grub doc, should say FAT32 works, but exfat doesn’t. I split the file with wimsplit, and copying the installer to it’s own partition, and created a big exfat partition she can use for whatever. Still waiting for it to finish, to see if this works. I could use Ventoy, but that might not work at all. Doesn’t on my computer.
Tested it in my VM, and exfat doesn’t work in there either. The internet is a liar, that AI doesn’t know what secure boot is.
Might have had a Philips soundbar too, that might not have been loud enough, or the dialogue was no good at all. Looks like it’s trying to boot the installer now in VM. Looks like it works, now I can pee.
Nice, reinstalled, WiFi works, but still no working touchpad. Not even in installer, and I modified the boot.wim too. Guess I won’t reinstall until the touchpad works in the installer. And maybe I should delete the Grub partition as well, probably not even needed.
Downloaded the FN one and the Wacom one. And they’re extracted. Now to check in that Windows crap if it’s actually in the wim files. Might need to remove the built in touchpad crap, as it may be conflicting. Got to love Windows.
An easier solution, since Lenovo and Microsoft are both dicks, find the fucking NOVO button. In that case, I can remove the fucking Windows from the fucking flash drive, and she can have one big fucking partition. But why can’t I just use the Windows installer?
And touchpad not working, might be a common problem. With Windows 11 update. But I’ll try FN + F6 first, or just F6. All that does is brightness. Don’t think it has a NOVO button either.
Maybe it needs a bios update. Or maybe the bios can install the shitty drivers it needs. Looks like it’s F2 or FN + F2. Don’t think I will update bios, considering, Windows breaks itself.
LOL NOVO button hole is on the bottom, that above link might not have said that. The manual for this laptop does though. Hmm, wonder if it can create a working USB drive, since the one from Microsoft doesn’t work apparently. And I don’t want to fuck around in a Windows VM trying to fix it. NOVO it is. Or F2.
Well, ran the troubleshooter in the NOVO menu, and it’s resetting. Slower then reinstalling. Going to make a proper ISO once it’s done, if the touchpad works. Problem is, you have to connect to internet to use it at all. Malware as far as I’m concerned. Well, USB ethernet it is.
And Windows 11, may have gotten rid of them mouse in the setup.
It’s most likely reinstalled from the recovery partition, I only touched the big partition. Guess I have to connect to internet to see if the mouse works. Pretty fucking stupid. How do I get it working in the installer though?
Well it’s downloading updates, more like malware. Think I used the Switch USB ethernet, which must be blocked from internet. Found another one. Not using my laptop one, cause I don’t want it to use that IP.
Maybe an update fixed it. So going to see if I can somehow get the updates on the ISO, so when it’s done, I’ll have a working USB installer possibly. In case the NOVO menu craps itself. Like the drive corrupts itself or dies.
The easiest way to get the updates, is from Windows 11 apparently. Hopefully it’s done and the touchpad works.
Mouse works, but still not in installer. And apparently MS now requires you to login with an online account to use it. Now looking for a bypass.
Nice, Rufus might come in handy. But can it get the updates? Cause I need the updates, to make an ISO, in case the drive craps itself.
Well it’s fixed, took a long time though. Can think of one or two ways that may have fixed it faster as well.