Fine Details needed for partitioning & mounts in a legacy laptop with WinXP32 on

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Glad to here you're up and running.

Re:  Sound -- have a look in the "Hardware" section of the Help Manual.  There's a section for sound configuration -- see if that helps.  (Access Help Manual from either the main Menu, or it's bookmark in Firefox.)  If you continue to have sound problems, make a new post specifically about that to attract views of people that know how to fix that type of problem.

Re: Downloading Videos -- not sure what you mean by "downloading"?  Do you mean being able to watch them online, or do you mean downloading a copy of the video to your hard drive for later viewing?  If you are not talking about downloading youtube videos, give us an example link to a video site you are trying to download from.  Haven't used Real Player myself in about 15 years, so have no idea what "icon" you are talking about.  If you are talking about downloading youtube videos, here's an addon that works well for that:  Video DownloadHelper.  Again, if this doesn't solve your problem, make a new post specifically about downloading videos -- others probably know more than I do on that.


REGARDING YOUR NEW INSTALLATION:

Just out of curiosity, because you were worried about possible negative affects of prior install attempts, can you open a terminal and post back the following command output so I can see how the partition structure looks?

Code:

sudo fdisk -l

Code:

sudo blkid -c /dev/null

Code:

cat /etc/fstab

Also, have you tried accessing and/or do you want access to that NTFS data partition?  If so, I can use the above output to get you setup for that.