Gather around children, let me tell you a story about how somehow I killed my Windows installation.
It begins an afternoon when my internet was failing for some reason. I decided to play around with my router settings, eventually I end up enabling 802.11n so I decide to just double check that my laptop supports it. I accidentaly end up opening the disk mananger instead of device mananger. That is the moment when I notice that I have 4 partitions on my SSD(RAID, M.2) and 2 on my HDD.
In the HDD: Data and a Recovery Partition of 20 gb.
In the SSD: System/BIOS(or something), Windows, unused(apparently), recovery.
I decide to add the unused space to my Windows partition. Afterwards the MSI notification popups reminding me of creating a physical backup, so since I still don't have internet I decide to do it, I open the wizard and get "Recovery Partition wasn't found" so I'm like: "Oh, so that was what it was for", I decide to try and recover the partition and leave it as it was before, since I haven't done any changes on files or something.
Just before applying the changes I notice in the diagram that my Windows partition is being physically moved a few blocks, and I wonder for a few moments if things could get bad because of that. I go whatever and apply the changes, my laptop reboots, and.... "Your computer needs reparing; file not found: /windows-something"
"Well shit"
I call a friend that I'm going to his house to download windows 10. After downloading windows 10 I try to move it to my usb, but I need to change the filesystem first. But my friend has a Mac, and FAT32 wasn't an option, I have to choose exFAT. After 4 failed attemps to move it to the USB, since the USB connection of his mac was failing, it is finally on the usb. I try to boot from the USB, but I'm surprised with the fact that my computer doesn't recognize my usb, I try several times, and then I look it up and it is because UEFI doesn't support exFAT. So I look around in UEFI and change it to Legacy.
Just to be surprised that there isn't any information in Legacy boot. No help in what any button does, so I'm constantly rebooting my laptop and pressing different buttons, eventually I discover that in Legacy: F11 is boot options, and DEL takes you back to UEFI. No luck reading my usb in legacy. I hit the streets and buy a fresh DVD, and then burn windows 10 onto it. New attemp, it fails, for whatever reason it doesn't do anything, it reads the disc but nothing happens. It gets late and I have college the next day, I got back to my home, where I remember I still have my old laptop somewhere.
After finding it I format my usb in FAT32, move windows 10 there and try again on my latop, it works. Installation process begins, but only to discover that it only shows up my HDD and not my SSD, and I don't want to delete all my data in my HDD, I leave it as a plan B if all else fails to install Windows in HDD, fix the issue with the SSD, and then move windows there.
Plan A begins, I look around in my old laptop about what I could do. Eventually I decide to download the drivers since I will need them anyways. And there I found in the MSI support page, a driver with a note like this: "This drivers makes SSD available during installation process". Couldn't it be? I download them, try installing windows again, plug my usb with the new ssd drivers, select load drivers, and after a few minutes my SSD is back again, I fix the partitions thing, and install Windows there. And just a few hours ago I finished downloading most of my programs back, with drivers installed and everything.
All this happened because my internet was failing.
Oh, and I need some help. For whatever reason my battery no longer discharges when it's fully loaded as before. I'm worried for my battery life. I didn't find any driver or anything about it. Help pls. Also, my screen and cursor freezes for a few moments sometimes. For example, when using some dropdown menu. For whatever reason.