Interesting meeting last night especially about the keyboard settings,
found several things about the PC keyboard I was using and it's
additional keys.
Sorry this is a long email.
Now to my problem: While trying to upgrade from Mint 19.3 to Mint 20
problems arose which have stop me using the Laptop (I'm on our PC for now).
Long story so cutting it short. During the upgrade I used the 'other'
option as the laptop has 4 partitions:- sda1= OS (Mint) system files,
sda2=swop, sda3=Home, sda4=odds area.
Previous upgrades I've reformatted sda1 and left all other 'as is' and
it's worked every time (till now).
Now sda1 is empty (no files to be seen), all others still OK.
Fault now says ' no UEFI file to be found' (or similar words)
With Ralphs help we have established that the BIOS does support UEFI and
it uses MBR(?) for Grub2.
Can now only use a Live Disk to operate the Laptop. Gparted shows
partitions and confirms OS is empty.
From a 'live disk' would like to copy sda3 to another disk (USB 160Gb
with 2 partitions - sdb1=NTFS and sdb2= Ext4 140Gb) before trying to
re-install and ignoring the warnings!.
BUT
I can only copy sda3 to any /other/ location (sdb2) by becoming 'Root'
and when I've done this before I've ended up with all Directories and
files being 'Owned' by Root and lost 'my' ownership.
How can I copy sda3 to sdb2 using a 'live disk' conserving all
properties.. All programs I've got don't seems to allow this. I'm
normally a GUI user not terminal user unless I have a command to copy
exactly, any help please?
PS Laptop works fine from the live DVD ISO's of both Mint versions.
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