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Does anyone know how to get rEFInd to recognise Windows 10? My rEFInd can only spot Windows 8.1. Later if I select Windows 8, the Windows booting process discovers the second instance of Windows. It thinks it's another Windows 8.... I'd rather have the both appear in rEFInd along with Linux. Any tip...

Actually Moem I didn't know that! Maybe explained why I could only shrink one of the Linux partitions and not the other despite there being no real difference or space restriction.

Just to let you know how all this panned out. Basically I wanted to fit the clones of my WIndows and my Linux Mint drives from my desktop PC onto THE SAME drive in in my laptop. This has now been achieved. The main tools that I used were Macrium in Windows for cloning drives and Paragon Hard drive m...

I needed to shrink a partition and had a strange experience. I had two drives which both had the original and cloned version of Mint. I tried to shrink the cloned version which I've actually done before. But Gparted wouldn't shrink that partition. Then I tried the original, which is the drive I'm lo...

Not enough information I'm afraid. If you post the output of the following commands the folks here can see what you are dealing with: sudo blkid -c /dev/null -o list cat /etc/fstab Thanks Altair4 ! Here is the output - I have all sorts of junk plugged in at the moment. device fs_type label mount po...

Hi all! I have a bunch of drives connected to the PC - NTFS format. Previously (last autumn) when I had a go at getting started with Linux Mint I was able to open and browse all of them. It's mainly storage - files and media. But now I am getting "Unable to Mount" "Not authorised to perform operatio...

Thanks guys! Will try this tomorrow since Im not sure how to do it and it's very late.

Hi all - can't get any sound in headphones as I'm logged into Mint. Worked fine in Windows. The audio is the built in Realtek on an ASUS motherboard. I can get sound coming from the HDMI monitor but I want it in the headphones that are plugged into the headphone jack on the Realtek built-in soundcar...

I've got EFIBoot or whatever it's called on it. :) Once you get that up and running it works like a charm - It'll pick up any OS that's available to the machine..... I set that up here on this forum during the autumn and it's working fine for dual booting the desktop from. If I hook up some other d...

To be clear, if you merely copy a partition to the laptop drive, that partition will not magically boot! You will need a some sort of bootloader (windoze or Linux) which is "aware" of the new OS. You are aware of this - yes? If there is another Linux distro already on the drive, that process would ...

It should be possible to clone your source partition to a slightly larger partition and then shrink the destination partition using Gparted - yes?... and if that doesn't work, you could shrink the source partition until it is smaller than the target and then clone it... If you are going to use Gpar...

Hi all! I would like to clone my current Mint installation to a smaller partition on a different drive. The actual space taken up by Mint on either partition is nowhere near the full size of the partition - so it shouldn't matter that the target drive has less capacity. There is still plenty to spar...

BigEasy wrote:

martienne wrote:Why is that?

Because I was moderator of big forum and have experience with that. I mean when someone, who banned, trying to sign in again (and again) under different identities.

Yeah but how could you know that it was the same person?

Maybe they logged the mac id along with the ip plus your style and topics etc etc a lot of ways to see if it is you or not. There is a way to change mac id's and of course ip's but who knows their is a lot of ways to see if it is you or not. Thanks Sam! For years it's been said that it's impossible...

BigEasy wrote:martienne, even if you change your nick, userpic, browser, os, country and write something in forum then you remain recognizable after just reading 2 sentences.

Why is that?

Speaking as a forum moderator, don't underestimate how your style of writing combined with what topics you are passionate about can leave an impression with people. That makes you recognizable without any fingerprinting. Anyway, you were banned for cause. I think you're only making it worse for you...

You explained everything when you said you were addicted to Windows like it was heroin. Microsoft Windows, when it is installed creates a "GUID" which is generated by taking the electronic signatures of ten of the components of your hardware, combined with their 24 character activation code (used t...

Sometimes people's manner of express their thoughts works much beter than browser fingerprint, cookies and IP alltogether. Yeah, what it was, was back in 2010, was - I defended Russia against some rather baseless accusations regarding relations with Sweden. Back then nobody else knew anything about...

It's part of how the web works: https://panopticlick.eff.org/about#browser-fingerprinting. And they try javaScript, Flash, etc. to get more details. Funnily enough the more browser features you disable and website content you block, the more unique you become (not less) and thus easier to identify ...

1.618 wrote:Once html5 becomes the default you'll be sharing loads of uneccessary data about your system as well

have a look and see

http://www.HTML5test.com

Yes - I know that it's will eventually do away with javascript.
So how does one protect from it?