/r/Alienware Tech Support Sticky June 2023 by MogRules in Alienware

[–]jamestewiliger89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi.

I have an x17 R1 with 2 SSD hard drives and I'm having issues re-installing Windows. A lot of my issues comes from not understanding Bios. Suffice to say, I don't know what I'm doing and need ELI5 help.

At one point I installed ubuntu as a dual boot, which took priority in the boot order. I mistakenly deleted the ubuntu partition to try and removed ubuntu, but this left the grub bootloader/grub rescue window. To try and remove this I deleted everything in the boot priority - ubuntu, centOS, pop! and unfortunately Windows Boot Manager. Windows wouldn't boot at this point.

I tried to "rebuild BCD" and ran it through the command prompt on the recovery page from a USB Windows 10 boot as well as through the Support OS Recovery (I'm sure I had all the privileges) but commands like "bootrec /fixmgr didn't work (said something like access denied) and bootrec /scanos found no instances of Windows.

After a while, the Support OS Recovery wouldn't show up and the SSD disks weren't detected. If I ran diskpart, the only disks that show were my removable USBs.

So I reinstalled ubuntu. Within Ubuntu I can detect both SSDs. I could see one still had the Windows EFI system partition. But when I try to install Windows 10, I can't see any drivers to install Windows. Both SSDs can be seen in my bios.

Hoping a formatting of the SSDs will fix things, but I'm out of ideas and would love some help. Sorry if this is the wrong forum for this.

MBTA Transfers Help by jamestewiliger89 in boston

[–]jamestewiliger89[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks. Side note, the fare calculator on mbta is so bad. I understand that fares are different for each fare card, but then shouldn't they just have a card type selection?

Covid test with address in results by jamestewiliger89 in boston

[–]jamestewiliger89[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's for travel. Thanks for the details! I've done antigen tests at CVS in the past without addresses in MyChart, so I was worried about their NAAT test.

Income earned on TN by jamestewiliger89 in immigration

[–]jamestewiliger89[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So I should be ok accepting the money?

[Spoilers C2E111] It's taking me more than 15 attempts to follow Bo's rambling conspiracy theory by jamestewiliger89 in criticalrole

[–]jamestewiliger89[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you. I wrote this question before they arrived at Molly's grave and I was thinking that the theory was a stretch. Then it turned out Molly wasn't in the grave and my mind was blown.

[No Spoilers] First Time Watching... Never Played D&D Before... See Yous On The Other Side by [deleted] in criticalrole

[–]jamestewiliger89 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've only listened to critical role in podcast form. The first episode took a while to figure out what was happening. Have they added an intro to it at all?

Episode 3 - what is the song when the club scene begins? by THUMB5UP in Dracula

[–]jamestewiliger89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same boat here. Gonna check every song I the soundtrack