Newbee questions before installation… will it work on my Notebook?

[Moltke]

There is no sound. In the control panel, I see "Dummy Output", and there is also no Input device though this machine has mic and speakers. I am just guessing that the installer did not recognize the built-in stuff.

Maybe the pulseaudio server hasn't started, try this; open a terminal and type

Code:

pulseaudio --check

  hit enter and next type

Code:

pulseaudio -D

and hit enter again, that should start pulseaudio and your audio will work. If it doesn't, then something else might be happening, but this usually solves that kind of issues.

But the worst is, before I switched to LL I saved all my data to two external HDs, one is NTFS-formatted, the other exFAT. If I plug them in they don't mount. If I launch Gparted I can see the partitions but I can't mount them either. So, at this time I can't bring my data back on this machine.

This one might be tricky and we'll need more info before giving any advice. Could you take a screenshot of gparted showing the drives and post it here so we can take a look at it?

Hope this helps!