Re: [GLLUG] How to repair an unallocated hard drive?

2021-04-21 Thread James Roberts via GLLUG
On 21/04/2021 13:06, J Southall via GLLUG wrote: Hi MeJ, I apologise forĀ  replying to the wrong message. Poor Chris Bell tries to help me and in return I moan at him. Life is not fair, John Hah is np, we all need an occasional shot in the ARM. Or M1 perhaps? Or a

Re: [GLLUG] How to repair an unallocated hard drive?

2021-04-21 Thread Alistair Mann via GLLUG
On 21/04/2021 11:40, J Southall via GLLUG wrote: I was ill yesterday and so I am trying to book a GP appointment. I waited for 23 minutes as first in the telephone queue before giving up. Does it really take receptionist that long to issue an appointment? No, but it does take that long to

Re: [GLLUG] How to repair an unallocated hard drive?

2021-04-21 Thread J Southall via GLLUG
On 21/04/2021 12:41, James Roberts via GLLUG wrote: In my wife's experience, "you are now 23rd in the queue" - so perhaps, yes! Slower than a check on a 8TiB drive, which does at least, eventually, complete or fail. It's all going to pot (holes, hereabouts) MeJ On 21/04/2021 11:40, J

Re: [GLLUG] How to repair an unallocated hard drive?

2021-04-21 Thread James Roberts via GLLUG
In my wife's experience, "you are now 23rd in the queue" - so perhaps, yes! Slower than a check on a 8TiB drive, which does at least, eventually, complete or fail. It's all going to pot (holes, hereabouts) MeJ On 21/04/2021 11:40, J Southall via GLLUG wrote: I was ill yesterday and so I am

Re: [GLLUG] How to repair an unallocated hard drive?

2021-04-21 Thread J Southall via GLLUG
On 01/01/2021 01:01, Mark Preston via GLLUG wrote: Hi all and I wish you all a happy New Year, I was trying to create a bootable persistent Linux Mint 20 USB stick with EFI support from a linux mint20 .iso downloaded from the internet. but something went wrong and...now I get an unallocated

Re: [GLLUG] How to repair an unallocated hard drive?

2021-04-17 Thread Mark Preston via GLLUG
On 10/04/2021 16:37, Chris Bell via GLLUG wrote: On Saturday, 10 April 2021 12:54:01 BST Mark Preston via GLLUG wrote: Regards, Mark Preston That looks like hard work! I am currently trying to work out how I am going to upgrade several old boxes to Debian 11 "Bullseye" which it seems should

Re: [GLLUG] How to repair an unallocated hard drive?

2021-04-10 Thread Chris Bell via GLLUG
On Saturday, 10 April 2021 12:54:01 BST Mark Preston via GLLUG wrote: > Regards, > > Mark Preston That looks like hard work! I am currently trying to work out how I am going to upgrade several old boxes to Debian 11 "Bullseye" which it seems should be released soon, most have space reserved,

Re: [GLLUG] How to repair an unallocated hard drive?

2021-04-10 Thread Mark Preston via GLLUG
On 01/01/2021 16:14, Chris Bell via GLLUG wrote: Hello Mark Knoppix appears to show sda as a 2TB disk partitioned using GPT which will install a GPT partition immediately after the space normally used by the DOS MBR to provide more space for information about multiple main partitions, not just

Re: [GLLUG] How to repair an unallocated hard drive?

2021-01-01 Thread Mark Preston via GLLUG
On 01/01/21 14:40, John Edwards wrote: Hi On Fri, Jan 01, 2021 at 01:01:11AM +, Mark Preston via GLLUG wrote: I was trying to create a bootable persistent Linux Mint 20 USB stick with EFI support from a linux mint20 .iso downloaded from the internet. but something went wrong and...now I

Re: [GLLUG] How to repair an unallocated hard drive?

2021-01-01 Thread Chris Bell via GLLUG
On Friday, 1 January 2021 01:01:11 GMT Mark Preston via GLLUG wrote: > Hi all and I wish you all a happy New Year, > > I was trying to create a bootable persistent Linux Mint 20 USB stick > with EFI support from a linux mint20 .iso downloaded from the internet. > but something went wrong