04-20-2014, 11:51 PM
Oh dear.... if you are confused, gold_finger, what hope is there for me?
But I think I may be able to interpret some of the stuff I have posted up in the attachments. The GParted screenshot image surely shows my laptop's inbuilt hard drive ONLY - which is notionally 250GB total capacity, useable/visible space a bit less than that. As I read it, the GParted screenshot even labels which partitions have DellUtility, Media Direct, and DellRestore. It surely isn't showing a 500GB drive? It doesn't help that some partitions are labelled in GB and some in MB. But my Windows XP, and all my routine files, are in the large partition (227.26GB of which 74.14 is used).
I have done no partitioning of any kind on that inbuilt hard drive - it is as it came from the factory. What are GPT partitions? Patitions created by GParted??
I have no idea what EFI-mode and CSM/Legacy mode are or how to switch in or out of them!
I absolutely don't have any Linux (Mint or other) installed anywhere. I was using the Linux Lite LiveCD (having booted into it from the CD) to access GParted and copy/paste/send the screenshots to this forum.
And no, I haven't posted anything in a Linux Mint forum, ever, and have never had a drive or boot problem with a 500GB drive!
Now..... as for my second post and attachment (the one from the terminal) it is true that I have two external hard drives connected to the USB sockets on my laptop. They are purely for storage. One is a 320GB HDD formatted NTFS (out of the box) on which I store my photos. The other is a 320GB HDD formatted FAT32 (also out of the box) on which I store my music. So if the command you asked me to type into the terminal was designed to extract info on all my hard drives, that's what you got in the Word document in which I copied and pasted what showed up in the terminal screen.
Does that help to make more sense of what I sent you?
But I think I may be able to interpret some of the stuff I have posted up in the attachments. The GParted screenshot image surely shows my laptop's inbuilt hard drive ONLY - which is notionally 250GB total capacity, useable/visible space a bit less than that. As I read it, the GParted screenshot even labels which partitions have DellUtility, Media Direct, and DellRestore. It surely isn't showing a 500GB drive? It doesn't help that some partitions are labelled in GB and some in MB. But my Windows XP, and all my routine files, are in the large partition (227.26GB of which 74.14 is used).
I have done no partitioning of any kind on that inbuilt hard drive - it is as it came from the factory. What are GPT partitions? Patitions created by GParted??
I have no idea what EFI-mode and CSM/Legacy mode are or how to switch in or out of them!
I absolutely don't have any Linux (Mint or other) installed anywhere. I was using the Linux Lite LiveCD (having booted into it from the CD) to access GParted and copy/paste/send the screenshots to this forum.
And no, I haven't posted anything in a Linux Mint forum, ever, and have never had a drive or boot problem with a 500GB drive!
Now..... as for my second post and attachment (the one from the terminal) it is true that I have two external hard drives connected to the USB sockets on my laptop. They are purely for storage. One is a 320GB HDD formatted NTFS (out of the box) on which I store my photos. The other is a 320GB HDD formatted FAT32 (also out of the box) on which I store my music. So if the command you asked me to type into the terminal was designed to extract info on all my hard drives, that's what you got in the Word document in which I copied and pasted what showed up in the terminal screen.
Does that help to make more sense of what I sent you?