Hi heather
I lost my edit additional comment - sigh so much typing in vain, I won't do
it justice with my retry LOL
Yes, I'm on a budget but I should be able to get additional hardware if
needed, the laptop was the big expense.
No worries, ignore my stated impatience, it is the idle hand syndrome when
I'm in front of my computer with unsolved problems I start fidgeting to try
out my ideas. If the laptop was already here I would have something to occupy
my computer fixation with Trisquel.
Besides, now that I know it is a battle of the OSs I shall not quit until
microsoft is vanquished - even if I used the weapon of last resort to format
the C: drive - that would be brutal. Ouch!
-Break-
Okay, this is to Magic Banana
I had a long typed reply to you but it was lost to the internet transit.
So this is the brief version, Gparted reports 5 devices (from top to bottom
sequential order) the last is the USB 16GB Sandisk trisquel ISO image.
I took detailed photos, take your leisure to make sense of them, hopefully
they will give hint to a easy fix:
/dev/sda1 model ATA ST...[931.51GB(94%)full 53.03GB free boot Label Data]
{Pic1}
/dev/sdb model ATA M...[sdb1 100MB(74%)FREE Label sys rsrvd] [sdb2
119GB(95%)used 5.83GB(5%)free no Label] {Pic2 and Pic3}
/dev/sdc model model ATA ST...3.64TB[sdc1 unk 128MB msftres not mounted
warning] [sdc2 ntfs 2.39TB(66%)used 1.24(34%)free mounted Label Jun2014]
{Pic4 and Pic5}
/dev/sdd [sdd1 14.36MB(7%)used 185.64MB(93%)free not mounted Label Backup Sys
Rsrvd] [sdd2 232.68GB(100%) mounted Label Archive C Drv] {Pic6 and Pic7}
/dev/sdi model Sandisk Cruzer Glide 14.61GB [sdi1 fat32 3GB(21%)used
11.59(79%)free boot lba(USB) mounted on cdrom Label UUI] {Pic8}
