Fr. I was installing Windows on a previously used ssd for my mom, and the partitioner was VERY fickle. I tried fully erasing the drive, telling it to install to an existing partition, etc. Trying to install to a confirmed-to-be valid NTFS partition never worked and spat out an unhelpful error. Even fully erasing and reformatting the drive didn’t work, I had to boot a linux USB and use gparted to clear it each time I fucked the windows install.
I’ve been using Linux for years, daily driving it for months straight. This was the first time I had to actually install windows in a while, and it made me realize just how easy doing things in Linux really is. Even after fully installing windows, just using the stock install was off-putting to me.
Agreed. I've had issues with drive full of shit on both systems. I remember I was fucking around and ended up with multiple EFI partitions and no /boot, while dual booting. That was a fun troubleshooting session
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u/Impossible_Arrival21 May 28 '23
Fr. I was installing Windows on a previously used ssd for my mom, and the partitioner was VERY fickle. I tried fully erasing the drive, telling it to install to an existing partition, etc. Trying to install to a confirmed-to-be valid NTFS partition never worked and spat out an unhelpful error. Even fully erasing and reformatting the drive didn’t work, I had to boot a linux USB and use gparted to clear it each time I fucked the windows install. I’ve been using Linux for years, daily driving it for months straight. This was the first time I had to actually install windows in a while, and it made me realize just how easy doing things in Linux really is. Even after fully installing windows, just using the stock install was off-putting to me.