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You said it was booting normally before so the first thing to check is permissions. You might have changed them while experimenting. ls -ld ~ the result should look something like this: drwxrwxr-x 74 your-nick your-nick 12K May 27 11:40 /home/your-nick if it doesn't then do this sudo chown your-nick...

it's helpful to run but it's also helpful to run

I wonder if you have a rescue partition on that laptop? If you do it may still be there if you simply installed over everything without repartitioning the drive. I don't use windows anymore but if I remember correctly you would hit F8 or maybe F5 possibly F1 while booting to get the rescue started....

I wonder if you have a rescue partition on that laptop? If you do it may still be there if you simply installed over everything without repartitioning the drive. I don't use windows anymore but if I remember correctly you would hit F8 or maybe F5 possibly F1 while booting to get the rescue started. ...

You can also run dd on the whole drive and let the SMART system disable the bad sectors. Of course that overwrites the whole drive. You should be backing up the whole drive anyway though no matter which method you use.
Replace X with your drive letter

Yeah this is a setting in your BIOS. You need to reboot your computer then as it's rebooting hit DEL key or F10. It's different depending your computer and BIOS type. I would try F10 first. So once you're in there look for that setting in the menus AMD-V, I forget what it's called exactly maybe virt...

Welcome to Linux and this forum. You will find out through time this is one of the nicest Linux forums in existence so ask away whenever you have a question. I bet you remember what forums were like in the old days but that isn't a problem here.

BenTrabetere wrote: ⤴Mon Mar 02, 2020 12:03 pm
YADATROT: One of the most unrealistic depictions of hacking, cracking, and computer intrusion in a movie has to be Live Free or Die Hard. The entire movie is a smorgasbord of the ridiculous, but the computer stuff is ... wow!

Yeah but I can't dislike Kevin Smith playing the hacker.

A lot of the movies show some person sitting down and cracking a system in a few seconds. It doesn't happen that way. And also it turns out that there are actually no projected numbers and words scrolling across your face. We've been lied to! :lol: Yeah lol. Hollywood needs to make it exciting thou...

I agree with Mr Robot , it had the most realistic cracking of any tv show ever put out. Before that there was the good old Sneakers . With that you get to see a lot of the stereotypical personalities and traditional methods. You get some dumpster diving, some social engineering. Which brings me to t...

Are you using psensor with udisks enabled? Add this to a file named 10-mount-without-password.pkla change USERNAME to your username [storage group mount override] Identity=unix-user:USERNAME Action=org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount;org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system ResultAny=yes...

The only time I've never had a problem with that is by installing Debian with the net install iso and choosing all the different DE's at install. I did that for my old laptop and so far so good.

xenopeeks advise is also one to follow. you won't have any problems with that.

It doesn't run under the name imagemagick, rather it uses differently named commands that relate to the function of said command. The only one I use is mogrify but there are many others. What makes it so great is you can do a batch run from the command line or a script and it is a lot quicker than d...

sgtor: I tried but could not. What are elabel2 and /dev/sdx all about? What would they be in my case? It's e2label not elabel2. x= a letter that represents a drive in your system. Your first drive would be /dev/sda a second would be /dev/sdb, etc etc Run this to see what I mean ls /dev/sd* Run this...

And just in case you do want to know how to do it from a terminal window.

I noticed the word Groot in that link. In Toronto there is a family owned butcher shop called Degroot's and some of those guys are all three big, tall and strong. I used to see them throw a side of beef over their back like it was nothing. What does a side of beef weigh? It has to be at least 200 p...

I noticed the word Groot in that link. In Toronto there is a family owned butcher shop called Degroot's and some of those guys are all three big, tall and strong. I used to see them throw a side of beef over their back like it was nothing. What does a side of beef weigh? It has to be at least 200 po...

JoeFootball wrote: ⤴Wed Aug 21, 2019 1:08 pm

Mazda81 wrote: I went back to the store today and managed to get a full refund

Well done!

Joe

+1

I'm glad to hear it.

I was actually curious about that statute of limitations for fraud so I looked it up. I know it used to be the way I said but that was years ago. Looks like it is no longer the case though. Might be different in the UK. Under the old limitations legislation, there was an argument that limitation per...

sgtor, You're right about the dishonesty, if they had been open about what they had done I might have felt more inclined to work with them but now I'm going tor a full refund. I think that is a good plan, as others have said here you didn't get what you paid for. I'm not a lawyer but it must be ill...