Alright Sup Forums, I've a story for you. This happened over the last few days. I'm a night owl, so nights...

Alright Sup Forums, I've a story for you. This happened over the last few days. I'm a night owl, so nights. I figured I'd try Ubuntu again for shits 'n gigs, and had to do some meta shit get outa this one.
>> Install Ubuntu on main drive, erasing everything. Important shit was backed up to a drive with a faulty MFT. I didn't know 'til later.
>> Pain in the ass to install proprietary drivers for old-as-balls WMP54G Wireless (yea, yea laugh it off) and Nvidia drivers. I've done this before, so I expected it.
I figured that the drivers that shipped with Ubuntu could handle the sound card I had in the computer.
>> Try to play music.
>> No sound.
Well, shit.

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>> Search the internet for Creative Sound Blaster Zx proprietary drivers.
>> Only thing I find is a three year old forum post that requires kernel modifications.
>> Not about to do that shit.
No fucking way. The Sound card brand I'm using is practically a family tradition. My father used the Audigy series all the time to record his music. Also, no other sound card.
>> No Windows installation disk.
>> Download Windows ISO
>> No burnable DVDs. Fine, I'll use the USB stick I used to install Ubuntu.
>> Install Unetbootin.
>> First attempt to flash the USB drive results in a program hang
I think it's because I let Ubuntu suspend while Unetbootin was doing its job.
>> Second attempt succeeds
>> Restart computer
>> Attempt to boot from USB stick
>> Motherboard BIOS hangs.
Fuckin' hell.

change the output source in the sound settings

This is a UEFI compatible bios we're talking about. It's not that fucking old.
>> Reboot into Ubuntu
>> I try to flash the USB stick about two more times with Unetbootin to no avail.
Time to try something else. Another program maybe?
>> Look for a Rufus Linux fork.
>> Find nothing
>> A dull, grey light bulb goes off in my head
"Maybe if Wine can run Rufus it will recognize the drives on my computer."
>> Thought the dumbass.
>> Install Wine
>> Try to run Rufus. It starts just fine, but shows no drives or flashing options.
Well no shit.
>> Look for alternative to Unetbootin. Find something called Etch.
>> Install it.
>> It has a flashy modern interface.
>> It succeeds in flashing the USB stick.
Bear in mind, I'm formatting the USB stick every time I do this. I'm not simply overwriting files.
>> Restart computer
>> Try to boot from USB stick
>> Motherboard hangs again
SHIT!
>> Day fuckin' two, no dice.

I tried that. It failed.

Sound card?

>> I try this shit twice. It fails both times.
>> Ponder my options for a while.
This is where shit gets meta.
>> Remember reading about VM Box.
>> Bright light bulb goes off in my head.
I giggled, pondering the idea.
>> Install VM Box
I've never used this program up 'till this point.
>> Clean, GUI insterface makes it easy to learn
>> VM Box runs like a computer within a computer.
"Maybe if I install A Windows OS in VM Box, then use Rufus in VM Box to flash the USB stick."
>> Doubting the idea
>> This won't fuckin' work.

It didn't even recognize the on-board sound.

>> Read through the relevant parts of the manual
>> VM Box automatically captures the USB stick from the host OS.
>> It does this on Ubuntu, but nothing shows up in the guest.
>> Check the drivers in the Windows installation.
>> Windows is showing the relevant driver is fucked up and passing invalid calls or some shit.
I spent four fucking hours trying to figure this shit out.
>> I finally figure out that the USB settings in VM Box can only be changed if the guest machine is off.
It makes sense, looking back.
>> The problem was that I was using older USB 1.1 configuration for a USB 2.0 stick.
>> Fix the problem.
>> Change relevant network settings to download Rufus in the guest machine.
>> Install the relevant drivers in the guest machine to allow the guest and host to communicate.
I get the Windows ISO onto the Windows VM.

>> Start Rufus and initialize the flash.
It's working perfectly!
>> Rufus takes about 20 minutes to complete its job.
>> Turn off VM.
>> Restart computer
>> Try to boot USB stick.
>> It works.
This is the second time I tried Rufus with this method. Apparently my motherboard doesn't like UEFI GPT (?) boot record.
>> Install Windows 10
>> Use Anti-Beacon because fuck Microsoft.
About that drive with the faulty MFT...

Day 3 ended well.
>> I have a whole collection of discographies that faulty backup drive.
>> All of them were fresh copies.
>> Backed up a shit-ton of eBooks to that drive, too
>> After Windows installs, I install the relevant drivers for all my peripherals.
>> Try to play a song from that drive
>> "This file is missing or corrupt" or some shit pops up
FUCK!!!
>> Almost all of the music I had previously copied over was corrupted.
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>> Use a program called TestDisk to find the problem.
Testdisk say that the MBR for the drive is corrupted, as well as the MFT.
>> Replace MBR with its backup
>> TestDisk fails to replace MFT.
Apparently both the primary and the backup were corrupted to some degree,
>> TestDisk documentation says that the windows chkdsk command can fix the MFT as well.
>> I do this, and it works.
>> Restart computer after updates.
That's the story of how I flashed a USB drive within a Windows installation within an Ubuntu installation. It's also how I lost most of my music collection, all of my reaction folder, and some ebooks.

>> I have to download everything again.

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>adventures of a 14 year old
>can't backup properly
>doesn't know how to use dd, instead uses some vm contraption/wine to fucking put an image onto usb
>thinks anti-beacon will help not getting into a botnet

Can't you read? I said I didn't know the drive was fucked up.
As for Anti-beacon, you have any suggestions?

a backup on only one other location is not a backup.

yes i have a good suggestion, don't use windows

Okay, what other OS like windows can I use, then?
Also you're right I don't know what dd means.

>turning a complaint about your audiocard not working with Linux (what a surprise) to a blog
sage

>Use Anti-Beacon because fuck Microsoft.
bwahahaha you people are so fucking gullible

>yes goyim trust us!
>thanks to our closed source placeboware of dubious quality you no longer have to worry about our pesky friends at microsoft spying at you!

try mint, it's a good starting distro

well, dd can be used to write an image to a usb from the commandline, actually those programs with gui's you downloaded pretty much use dd behind the screens. if you do some googling you can work it out, it would have saved you a lot of time.

Okay I'll check that out sometime. Gonna take a break from installing shit for awhile, though. I'll deal with windows for now.

What does anti-beacon running on Wine have to do with it being placebo?

It proudly claims to "block" things that don't exist.

What parts, specifically, don't exist?

shit blog. also, why did you try to use UNETBootIn for Windows? I'm pretty sure it's only for Linux distros.

1. Install Windows 10
2. Kill yourself

Pick one.

>telemetry hosts
wine doesn't have networking features, it uses host's.
>telemetry services
wine doesn't have services
>telemetry group policies
no such thing as group policies on wine
>CEIP scheduled task
no such thing as task scheduler on wine
>apps use adverstising ID
current versions of wine mimic XP and no framework for advertising ID was ever made there
>sensors
>p2p windows updates outside local network
>handwriting data sharing
lmao

if it wasn't shitty placeboware it would return an error about not being able to implement features.
Kind of like youre denied to change the system on a windows account without administrative rights.

It has the option to flash other ISOs onto a USB drive. That's what I did.

Option 1. I can deal with BS corporate tactics. Also, I'm not a weak-willed bitch.

>> Fucking kill me

Wine is a fucking piece of shit with less than 10% success rate for most Windows software. Wine is not some magical solution for running Windows software.

You can't even download ttf-mscorefonts-installer properly because a sourfeforge glitch causing PlayonLinux and Wine installation to fail repeatedly.

Even a shitty old game like Diablo II could not install despite me having genuine battle chest discs as it kept throwing dumb errors at me.

See It could've been a fault in wine that caused Anti-Beacon to work unexpectedly on Wine. Also, just because these things don't exist on Wine, that doesn't mean they don't exist on the Windows platform.

It's not a list of choices, it's an instruction set for Windows users.

It's a list of choices because you wrote "pick one" faggot.

There's not a single proof that all that placebo shovelware that appeared after win10 release works

Can you think of any testing methods that would prove the shovelware works? If not, then I'm stuck with windows for now. I think I'll download the VM Box windows fork and run mint on it as per to check it out.

I've just written some software that'll triple your ram size and double your processor speed.
It's got these really cool looking gauges, so you know it works.

I wasn't being sarcastic, user. Any ideas?
Also, this: majorgeeks.com/files/details/destroy_windows_10_spying.html