u/wyocaster

Hey guys,

So I've got a windows 10 pc that I built which originally had a 256gb SSD as a boot drive and a 2TB HDD for mass storage, which I upgraded to a SSD at a later time just for faster speeds. Both SSD's are Samsung SATA drives. (Specs: MB: ROG STRIX Z490-A, GPU: RTX 3080, CPU: Intel Core i5 10600k)

Recently we had some power flashes and ever since then my PC will show the BIOS loading screen but then just go black with my cursor visible as the blue spinning circle that shows its thinking.

My initial thought is that windows is corrupt. I've been through all the different software troubleshooting that's in the windows recovery environment: startup repair, system restore, etc.

It seems my only option at this point is to re-install windows from scratch onto my boot drive but I will have to partition the drive and wipe everything and unfortunately I've got files on this drive I want to save. So my question is: if I get a new boot drive (like a 500gb NVME) would I be able to install windows on that drive and potentially transfer my files that were on my old boot drive to save them? Or would I be running into other problems by doing that? The other thing is I don't think I can get a Windows 10 product key anymore so I would probably have to put Windows 11 on this new drive, and I don't know if that would also cause any issues.

Thanks for the help

I cannot for the life of me understand how "normal" people communicate and somehow get their points across to each other. When I speak I very meticulously choose my words so that what I am speaking is exactly what I want to say. When other people talk, it seems like they just blurt out words that they don't know the meaning of and expect the listener to just interpret them correctly. I will have conversations with people and they will say things that mean the exact opposite of what they are trying to say but then somehow get mad at me when I can't just read their mind. It will get to the point where I will say back to them the exact words that they said to me and they will respond with, "that's not what I said" and when pressed on it they will say, "yeah well I didn't actually mean that I meant this..."

Lets use this as an example:

Coworker: "This rebate has a month left on it so that's how long they have to send it in right?"

Me: "Nope, that's an instant rebate so they don't have to send it in that's all done at the point of sale, you've already written up the sale so they're good to go. The rebate gives a discount off the price of the second product."

Coworker: "Yeah but they have until then to use it right?"

Me: "It's already done, they don't have to do anything."

Coworker: "But they only have until the end of the month on it right?"

After I started getting visibly frustrated, my coworker finally told me that they hadn't picked out the second product yet and that was what they were talking about.

I've had this communication issue with loved ones including my wife (INFJ) and when I explained what my issue with communication was, she said, "well that's just when you ask people what they mean"

The problem is I don't know when to ask people what they mean because I try to not treat people like they have a room temperature IQ and that they don't constantly contradict themselves. There are some times that people will say something and it's obvious that they're mixing something up, but most of the time it's not obvious at all.

I tend to find it happening consistently with Ti-Child and Ti-Inferior but I don't notice it with Te types. I think it might be something to do with Te-Trickster and Te-Demon where these people have no grasp on how to accurately express concepts in ways that other people can easily understand. There is a very sizable chunk of the population with these specific functions (all XSFJ's and XNFJ's) and I have to wonder how did the human race get this far when people can't accurately communicate things without the other person having to act as an interpreter.

And before anyone comes in here saying "well all language needs to be interpreted" there is a very big difference between confusing what someone says and someone saying something completely different than what they mean and expecting other people to understand.

TL;DR I don't understand people at all and it causes me great amounts of distress.