So, I pulled my laptop out this morning. A BIOS change to enable legacy boot, and a couple of other steps, and I had Windows 7 running on it. I was able to get SATA/USB 3 running on it, but there were a couple of other drivers that were unsigned and I couldn’t get to install. I tried to get the display driver (downloaded straight from AMD/ATI) to install, but there were other issues. A trip to Legacy Update to get a servicing stack update, and the display issues cleared up. And then it came time to update. Spent about 6 hours downloading and installing, and then it came time to do the first reboot. And windows wouldn’t reboot. Oh well. It wasn’t going to be a daily driver. I wasn’t going to use it at all. It was just trying it out to see if I could get it to work. Anyway, experiment is over. It really isn’t worth the effort, though I could make it work. So I downloaded the current build of GParted (mainly because I could find the usb flash drive that I had of it), and it’s been wiped and put away.
Now to order pizza and watch TV….
And yes I did call out Sunday night. This morning, I took out 2 cans’ worth of garbage, and realized we only had 1 garbage bag left. So a trip to Wally World. And then I realized nobody was using the apartment complex laundry room, so I did laundry. And thus all of my weekend’s adulting was done a day early….
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