@matrix https://gparted.org/livecd.php This has saved me multiple times. It hasn't been updated for years, but for basic partitioning it still works fine.

@phnt @matrix windows

@phnt I can't open the boot menu or BIOS screen. I would have to unplug drives (a lot of work because they're NVME).
I think Windows has some cmd tool that should let me do it.

@matrix The Windows utility is called diskpart I think. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if even that decided to hide partitions.

> I can't open the boot menu or BIOS screen
Yeah, this is the reason why I always set USB boot ahead of HDD boot on desktops.

@phnt @matrix I recently tried to help a friend who was interesting in learning to code so she brough her windows laptop over.

I couldn't make head or tails of it. Like I legit could not even get gcc on the fucking thing.

@ins0mniak @matrix
>Like I legit could not even get gcc on the fucking thing.
msys2 :) or cygwin if you want an actual posix enviroment.

That said clang makes much more sense on Windows and the usual way to get a compiler and an IDE on Windows is just to install Visual Studio Community. You need it for vcpkg anyway, which is what is usually used to get build dependencies on Windows.

@phnt @matrix Yeah I just felt like I was jumping through 80 freaking hoops to do something that isn't a second thought on a nix platform.

Even mac like....brew install gcc

@ins0mniak @phnt I think you overcomplicated it a bit too much. You just install QTCreater, CodeBlocks or Visual Studio if you wanna do C or C++.

@ins0mniak @matrix
>I just felt like I was jumping through 80 freaking hoops
If you ever feel like you are staring at magic code, look at this: https://cygwin.com/cgit/newlib-cygwin/tree/winsup/cygwin/fork.cc

@phnt @matrix Oh shit I used to use cigwin back in the days of xp

@phnt @matrix @ins0mniak >class frok

@phnt ok, diskpart let me, you just select the disk, type clean and it nukes the whole partition table