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Took apart an old and otherwise useless Sky box to extract the 1.5TB HDD and fitted it as secondary storage in the cellar’s Lenovo AIO. Proper score!
Might use this period of transition to also update the OS to Win11. Trouble is, it was unhappy enough (in terms of lack of drivers) with Win10, so this can't possibly improve matters. Still, I like that kind of challenge…
I remembered to remove the secondary HDD first though, so windows doesn't do weird partition stuff!
…but I stumbled when it came to the same UEFI thing as yesterday: this old AIO is pure legacy, baby, so I'll need to make a new installation USB stick.
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Maybe it's for the best that I don't work in some critical I.T. job: I forget so many things…
I remade a MBR\BIOS boot media (on a microSD card) and it worked fine to install Win11 IoT, but I forgot to unplug the network cable before installing so windows wanted me to use a Microsoft account to log in, which threw me a bit (until I realised my mistake). Thankfully, Rufus has some truly brilliant options when creating Win11 media, one of which includes forcing windows to allow the creation of a local account instead. Could have been annoying…
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Something has gone to shit with the Lenovo: it hangs on boot with a blinking cursor or a black screen. It was ok until updating (obvs…)
I was troubleshooting something else (the secondary HDD not showing up) and actually may have solved that whilst sorting this new problem: in BIOS, the SSD was excluded from the boot order, but the secondary HDD was included. Weird. Putting the SSD back in the boot order allows boot (and updating) to continue). I suspect it's because the ‘secondary’ drive is HD0 and the actual boot drive is HD1.
Back in windows: yup, the secondary drive now shows up.
