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Finally got around to installing my new 400 watt evga psu with an adapter into my inspiron. OK no doubt Dells suck since they give you just enough power supply a mb with 3 sata ports but one electrical line to use so you are stuck like me for years using usb3 for running 5 portable and ssd on usb3 with 1 to 4 usb sabient extender in my case and it is slow when moving stuff. Well the internal drive had my efi boot partition and my usb had my ssd with mx and manjaro on it and linux impressed the fuck out of me today. I moved the ssd with the OS's that was using a usb adapter to run it. I put it into the case and had a power cable to hook up to it and just in case had a live MX installer on usb just in case I needed to update grub or even reinstall grub. I love you linux, grub found faster than normal booted the ssd that I had just moved doing nothing but attaching it up to sata and power from the psu did not touch the fstab or anything just booted it up and it ran like it was installed that way on the sata connection not through usb so linux unlike windows did this move without a wtf or anything just did it perfect first time. Thought it would be nice for a Linux success because it's awesome and can do stuff that I haven't heard of doing before and we all need a it just runs great instead of why won't it start frustration story again. Linux rules.

Finally got around to installing my new 400 watt evga psu with an adapter into my inspiron. OK no doubt Dells suck since they give you just enough power supply a mb with 3 sata ports but one electrical line to use so you are stuck like me for years using usb3 for running 5 portable and ssd on usb3 with 1 to 4 usb sabient extender in my case and it is slow when moving stuff. Well the internal drive had my efi boot partition and my usb had my ssd with mx and manjaro on it and linux impressed the fuck out of me today. I moved the ssd with the OS's that was using a usb adapter to run it. I put it into the case and had a power cable to hook up to it and just in case had a live MX installer on usb just in case I needed to update grub or even reinstall grub. I love you linux, grub found faster than normal booted the ssd that I had just moved doing nothing but attaching it up to sata and power from the psu did not touch the fstab or anything just booted it up and it ran like it was installed that way on the sata connection not through usb so linux unlike windows did this move without a wtf or anything just did it perfect first time. Thought it would be nice for a Linux success because it's awesome and can do stuff that I haven't heard of doing before and we all need a it just runs great instead of why won't it start frustration story again. Linux rules.

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Be careful when booting back into Windows, if you do at all at this point. It can and will completely hose other drives' boot settings.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

I got rid of that windows problem a few years ago but thanks for the heads up though. I imagine once booted into linux I would fix the windows boot sector and also update grub at that point also if I had a windows install on it though I would be aware of additional problems that might occur also and have my partition structures backed up also since windows could fuck up a wet dream on the best system hardware.