The more random than that other thread thread

[The Skarzs]

Ah, okay.

[HeadInAnotherGalaxy]

Under 'ill, under tail...

[The Skarzs]

Underfoot.

[Nadaz, voice of the host]

Under 'ill, under tail...

through woods and rocks.
Marlfox! Marlfox! Marlfox!

[The Skarzs]

Is that what that is from? O_O I had forgotten.

[Ashleg]

yum

[The Skarzs]

yuk

[Jukka the Sling]

I just spent hours today trying to fix my dumb little Lenovo laptop that's been unbootable for two years by creating a bootable Windows 10 USB drive and trying to boot from it.  It's the first time I ever tried anything like this, and I was so hopeful I could prove my mad IT skillz by doing this new procedure, but... it didn't work.  The laptop just won't boot from it, and the BIOS setup menu only has a couple of tabs of options for some ridiculous reason (like it seems to be straight-up missing things that normal quality computers should have?), so I can't even do things like toggle from UEFI to legacy boot like some sites suggested.

Ugh.

Oh well.  At least I know how to make a bootable USB now, so I can maybe fix a couple of other dead computers we have laying around?  Although this experience has left me with dampened optimism.

I'll prob be buying a good gaming desktop this week anyway (so we can play the new Battlefront II we bought a few months back without any of us bothering to actually, y'know, read the system requirements).  At least I'll be joining just in time for Obi-Wan's release. XD

[The Skarzs]

Compooter stuff. Yes. Ineed. I agree.







I have no idea what you said.

[Delthion]

[The Skarzs]

Shut up.

[Delthion]

It was longer at first. And technically I didn't say anything.

[The Skarzs]

I can taste your lies.

[Matthias720]

@Jukka the Sling: Try making a live USB of a Linux distro, like Ubuntu. Try installing that first, and maybe that can give some insight into why Windows won't install.

[Jukka the Sling]

Thanks.  I considered it before, but figured that if Windows 10 wasn't working, anything else would probably fail too.  I'll have to try that anyway.

It's a "Windows Boot Manager boot failed" error, btw, and I'm using a cheap USB 2.0 (that I reformatted a couple times yesterday after mistakes with what I was doing.  Like at first I mistakenly saved the freshly-downloaded Windows 10 ISO right on the USB before doing more research and finding out I had to use something like Rufus or PowerISO to make it live ).  Anyway, after choosing to boot from the USB, it just says that the boot failed.  And I think I've done everything right?  Dunno if the USB itself or how it was reformatted would affect anything?  (I just formatted it back to its defaults.)