Recent content by billjay

Here's the rundown: -I have three laptop computers, two Dells and a Lenovo, all of which I've installed (or tried to install, prepped the BIOS for) Linux Mint on -the SD card readers work, for low-capacity cards, including SD and Micro-SD card-with-adapters -I have used several Samsung EVO...

Wanted to followup for anybody reading this looking for answers. I never did find out what the deal was, but I did recover all the data. I was able to boot Linux Mint from a usb key and use testdisk (without the GUI, couldn't get that to work) to recover the data; took about 16 hours, but it...

Correct - I right-click on the left, and then also initialized (attempted to) in AOMEI (also, disk manager informs me as soon as I startup that it needs to be initialized, and attempts right then)

I know. I should have backed up before monkeying with dual-booting linux. But I didn't. Note: I don't know what I'm talking about when it comes to the drive terms: MBR, intialize, etc. Just enough to get me into deep doodoo apparently! So here we go: this one's tough, if there's even an...