I'm an idiot.

newuser · 25 Apr 2021 at 21:35

Put a 2TB MX500 in my PC as a storage drive and decided to move the 1TB MX500 it was replacing into my other PC. That was easy enough.

The other PC had SSD mounts on the back of the motherboard tray that were only accessible with the MB removed. The HD drive cages are in the shed somewhere.

Spent 40 minutes looking for somewhere to screw the SSD to without taking the MB out. Looked for and failed to find double sided sticky pads. Gave up, took the board out and screwed the SSD in. This took ten minutes.

Now I have boot drive C, DVD drive D and new drive G. Obviously this won't stand so I start disk management to change the drive letters. No DVD drive listed.

Googled furiously, found many MS support articles seemingly written by people even more stupid than me. I tried getting into the drive properties from every direction I could think of, no option to change the drive letters.

In desperation I restarted disk management. Just two SSDs listed. Then I noticed the scroll bar...

Moral of the story - just delete some stuff.

JohnG7 · 25 Apr 2021 at 21:37

robfosters · 25 Apr 2021 at 21:38

I didn’t read your post, but yes, you are an idiot

Living up to your forum name

JohnG7 · 25 Apr 2021 at 21:40

I was waiting on him shorting out the Mobo via a screw to hold the SSD in place.

Defy Belief · 26 Apr 2021 at 08:36

After the failing to find 'sticky pads' to mount the ssd I was hoping you were gonna find some self tapping screws

Stelly · 26 Apr 2021 at 08:49

Its not that bad, we have all been there, I did the same thing with diskpart, was like well its showing up in diskpart with uses the same api as Disk Management.... then I scrolled... it happens, dont feel too bad, I worked for a disk backup software company for years

Stelly

Stelly · 26 Apr 2021 at 08:50

Also DiskPart is great, I use that over Disk Management all the time

Stelly

newuser · 26 Apr 2021 at 11:35

robfosters said:
I didn’t read your post, but yes, you are an idiot

Living up to your forum name

Thank you for the kind words of encouragement.

newuser · 26 Apr 2021 at 11:40

It occurred to me that using the right screws would be a good move. I used some screws from the mending computers box rather than some screws from the mending sheds, motorbikes and cats box. Might be an idiot but I'm not daft. Or according to the family, 'Strange but not dangerous.'

newuser · 26 Apr 2021 at 11:44

Stelly said:
it happens, dont feel too bad, I worked for a disk backup software company for years

Stelly

Thanks, I'm not allowed to work on computers despite having a City & Guilds with floppy drive repair and token ring networking.

Cooler running · 26 Apr 2021 at 20:11

newuser said:
Thank you for the kind words of encouragement.

bru · 27 Apr 2021 at 03:28

newuser said:
It occurred to me that using the right screws would be a good move. I used some screws from the mending computers box rather than some screws from the mending sheds, motorbikes and cats box. Might be an idiot but I'm not daft. Or according to the family, 'Strange but not dangerous.'

If you use screws to mend your cat's then yes I'm sorry to say yes, you are an idiot, every body knows you use tape to mend cats.