Mint won't let me partition drive with windows

[novel agate]

Thanks for all the help m8!

Couldn't have done it without u

[earnest tinsel]

dont have it encrypt your drive ever in this upcoming process!!

shizz a real pain to recover encrypted drives

[novel agate]

Got it!

Why am I stuck on the hp screen?

[earnest tinsel]

aight i'll be arounf

the what?

[novel agate]

The hp loading screen

[earnest tinsel]

idk give time

[novel agate]

K

[earnest tinsel]

watch the hard drive light now andthen for activity

[novel agate]

It's stuck on the screen, I may do this tommorow cause I'm very tired

[earnest tinsel]

ok then bud

or let it dwell, it may just be scanning something idk

goodnight

[novel agate]

Gn

[novel agate]

@earnest tinsel what's the issue with this?

[earnest tinsel]

hmmm

[earnest tinsel]

i have no idea.. i hope ur drive didnt come loose

try it again, fit it to a different USB port that isnt as worn

or try the Win10 iso.

[novel agate]

Nope

Now I need this?

The ventoy drive doesn't have these drivers

[earnest tinsel]

um, try to skip past that

[novel agate]

One second, had to get away from my laptop

[earnest tinsel]

idk if u have some nvidia card maybe

[novel agate]

Will be back on 5 mind

[earnest tinsel]

that could be why it's complaining

[novel agate]

Yes ,one of my gpus is nvidia

[earnest tinsel]

yeah tyt.. just skip past it for now if poss.

[novel agate]

I cant

This is required

[earnest tinsel]

does it give info on what drivers exactly?

if it's nvidia, use ur other usb drive to get the driver files on ur old PC, keep them in a folder, then use the Browse button in the Win 11 installer

[novel agate]

No

Every folder doesn't have the drivers

It won't even tell me which I need
Just something for windows install media

[earnest tinsel]

no i meant as an example get nvidia from the website (you'll need to know ur exact GPU model)

[novel agate]

I know th model

[earnest tinsel]

it's saying u can remove the Windows DVD from the tray to put in some other driver DVD.. in ur case, just plug another usb drive with the (what i suspect - would be the nvidia package)

[novel agate]

Are u sure that's what I need?

Cause the old "laptop" will take forever

[earnest tinsel]

no. but i have a suspicion. I mean what else could it be?

sound card?

[novel agate]

I also have an Intel gpu

[earnest tinsel]

it seems to be able to write to the internal SSD so i dont think it's that

[earnest tinsel]

those drivers are generic and on the Microsoft Windows DVD / iso

[novel agate]

So I'll download the nvidia driver and get back to u

[earnest tinsel]

or google that message, see what others have said

[novel agate]

@earnest tinsel the nvidia driver was a no go

I think it needs install media

That ain't it either

Idk then

Should I instead just install Linux and then use that to reinstall windows?

I have my data back up on the drive now so...

[earnest tinsel]

u cant reinstall from linux except into a virtual machine software

[earnest tinsel]

in ur case i just thought of something

u can go to ur old pc, make a folder on the backup usb stick called WINDOWS11

Then use Windows 10's capability to mount the win 11 iso u downloaded and copy it fully (as in extracted/mounted) to the WINDOWS11 folder on the big usb.

then try again, use the ventoy stick to install, but when it asks for drivers, u give it the source of the win11 folder on the other usb stick

Others I've helped re: Windows, it all worked fully just from ventoy. Your case, maybe cuz of a video card, or optane ssd or heck knows what, it is buggin' for more

[novel agate]

The big usb has my back up files, should I move them to the big pc?

[earnest tinsel]

u may if u wish, but i was just saying to make a folder alongside them

and by big pc, u mean the old pc i figure

[earnest tinsel]

• if Windows still refuses to install that way, then use a fresh usb drive, or empty your 32 GB one, and either: use the microsoft website usb media maker thing for the iso, OR , use RUFUS program to etch an iso, but press Alt+E in rufus FIRST to put it to UEFI mode before giving it the iso.

[novel agate]

I dont have much time today left so this is probably for tommrow

[surreal otter]

do you happen to have NVME M.2 - hard drive in your laptop ? and is it a brand new computer ?

[novel agate]

It's a 5 year old hp laptop

[surreal otter]

but seems that Windows, does not detect your HDD/SSD/NVME

[novel agate]

@earnest tinsel I finnaly managed to install Linux mint
So much trial and error
Wanna say thanks again for the help!

And to anyone else that helped as well

[earnest tinsel]

oh nice to hear that, and back from you 🙂

wow I just read up to refresh. this was a long one. A lot of it was trying to fix Windows.

[novel agate]

Yep
Windows refused to work
It couldn't even detect my hard drive but linux eventually worked

Now I have to fiddle with it a bit
Have to find a way to use my tp link chip for 5ghz internet

[earnest tinsel]

check with inxi -N

for what WiFi generation it supports

I'm gonna guess the computer's wifi card will autotune to both frequencies. The router however, may need to be explicitly set

[novel agate]

Nah, the computers wifi card can only read 2g
I need the fast download speeds

[novel agate]

spat out this result
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
driver: r8169
Device-2: Realtek RTL8723DE 802.11b/g/n PCIe Adapter driver: rtw_8723de
Device-3: TP-Link AC600 wireless Realtek RTL8811AU [Archer T2U Nano]
type: USB driver: rtl88XXau

i installed a driver for the chip already but it wont detect wifi