I didn't bother checking the file size on internet archive and fired up the torrent. My first problem was qbittorrent crashed. So I restarted it, odd. Then the torrent stalled. Odd again. Then I couldn't close the file explorer of the thumb drive. Odd big time. Then I tried to restart and got stuck on the lenovo loading screen until I manually pulled out the drive, then windows booted fine. To double check I restarted again and fine, 30 second restart and boot like normal.

Y'know if I actually paid attention to what I'm doing, I would have seen the download was 500gb and not guessing "oh it must be under 128gb so it will fit fine on my drive". UGH. I'm scared to plug the drive in now for fear it might brick my thinkpad again.

I AM SO DIM SOMETIMES.

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[–] 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

OK but tf you downloading from there that's half a terabyte?

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 2 days ago (1 child)
  • [–] 10 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    My opinion: Numbers suck sometimes

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago

    Windows explorer can get hung up sometimes in strange ways but it's not really a problem. If you have something like process explorer or even default task manager you can just kill the explorer.exe task and then use "create new task" and type in explorer.exe to start a new one.

    If you ever find yourself in a situation where explorer won't work you can use the command line cd and then dir command to list files and del command to delete to remove stuff. You can also use an alternative graphical file manager for windows like total commander that shouldn't have the same issue. Sometimes it's a thumbnail loading issue, in fact it often is.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago

    it's funny how sometimes the computer will warn you and sometimes it doesn't

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