so this weekend i blew the better part of a saturday afternoon, and most of sunday, on trying to install windows on another hard drive.
it's a little faster, little newer, and four times as big as my current one - i had it mounted with a D:\ partition, but i thought it'd be better if i reinstalled windows to it to gain that extra speed as well
so it turns out that for some reason, the latest version of windows is absolutely dead loving set on not being installed properly there. i used the media creation tool to make a win10 usb, tried that - wouldn't boot, got stuck on the blue windows logo. made another one, wouldn't boot. i messed with every loving bios setting i could think of or find, fiddled with my ram (apparently corrupt ram can cause it, not my issue tho), fiddled with the two hard drives, cleaned my computer just for the hell of it, nothing worked.
eventually i downloaded an iso of an older version of windows, from 2016, and put that on a usb. it installed succesfully, which was all fine and dandy, but then i had to go through windows update. painfully, painfully slow windows update. it took me all of sunday to finish installing the updates one after the other, and when i finally went to install a feature update which i think would've brought the install to close to today (1804 maybe? so april if thats what the number meant), and i restarted my pc.
wouldn't boot. windows logo.
forget me, dude, it's a good thing i never uninstalled the copy of windows on the old hard drive. i switched back to it for now.
the cherry on the stuff cake is probably the fact that, as far as i can tell, i /have/ the latest version of windows on this hard drive. so my motherboard or bios or whatever are obviously compatible with it, which baffles me to no end
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