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Forgot to tell you. The startup is not a problem. I do not shutdown the OS, suspend it instead. Takes only one second to boot into desktop. Great.

Hello, Are you there? I am writing to thank you. This message is typed and posted via LXLE, one of the Linus distros. Tried Mint Cinnamon and Xfce, and Puppy Linus BionicPuppy32 amd 64, and FossalPup64, and others, they all have problems with Google Chrome, as they say, Google com. is not safe, or untrusted, or Google Chrome and YouTube have modified their website . . . They simply can not get along with Google. Finally, I found LXLE and made it a bootable. Now I am writing to you with YouTube playing mucis on this simple and junk setup. And the OS is very fast. The only thing is the startup. Takes about 8 minute to have all the files loaded to RAM and then the OS boots into desktop. After this, the OS is fast, faster than Windows 10. It is really enjoyable to use. I feel I owe you a sincere THANK YOU.

"Cinnamon is okay to." Have made Xfce bootable USB stick already and tried to install it. Got stuck. Frustrations are expected for trying anything new. "even Google Chrome is dropping support of it's browser on Windows 7 in about Feb 2023." Thanks for the information. I don't particularly like Google Chrome. Have not used any other browser or do not know how to use other browsers, this is the reason I use Google Chrome. I feel Firefox is just fine using it for the last few days. Shall use Xfce and Firefox from now on as long I am enjoying Linux Mint Xfce. Don't feel any need for moving to Chromium. "Just to confirm..." The dead hard drive, together with that motherboard on which the dead hard drive was burnt to be dead are all abandoned, laid aside under my bench. After that incident, I put another motherboard on top of a small table, put the CPU and RAM sticks (removed from that abandened motherboard) on this motherboard, so also the PSU, CR2032, keyboard, mouse, optical drive and tried to install OS. (The whole set up of a PC was on the small table, not case.) Installer could read the DVD and prepare the files for installation, then it came to confirm where to install Windows, there was no hard drive showing in the installing window, and installer said it could not find any DRIVERS for any hard drive. Checked BIOS, under boot priority, there was no any hard drive data, just a empty blank space. REALLY CONFUSED HERE: HOW COME A DAMAGE ON A MOTHERBOARD AFFECTS ANOTHER MOTHERBOARD? WHAT TRANSPORTS OR CARRIES THE DAMAGE OR MESSAGE FROM ONE MOTHERBARD TO ANOTHER? SATA power connectors and SATA data cables. Have connected to all the connectors on the peripheral cable and connected 4 data cables to every one of the sockets on the motherboard. "booting the Linux Mint bootable USB stick" Linux Mint bootable on a USB stick, BIOS can see it and the OS boots. BIOS sees no hard drive and the bootable does not boot IF Mint bootable is created on a hard drive, even the hard drive is not connected to the SATA power connector, but connected to a USB bable such as USB to SATA cable. By the way, the Linux Mint I am playing with is on the same USB stick and inserted into the same USB port on the same PC set up on top of a small table. "under the 'Disks' program" There is no hard drive listed under Disks. I have 2 USB flash drives inserted on the board. These 2 flash drives are listed and shown 2 pictures as flash drives. "to clear your BIOS" Have removed CR2032 from motherboard for more than 30 minutes, not once, and shorted it 3 times by the jumper, more than 10 minutes each time. Did not make any difference. "buy one of those SATA controller cards" No, I shall not buy. Too much hassle. "do a RAM check" The checking tells the quality or health of the RAM. Does it tell anything about the accident and missing of drivers? "resetting the 'defaults' in the BIOS menu." Did many times. Not any one time made any changes. I am not striving to save the old PC, but rather learning for fun or interent. Running an operating system on a flash drive is rewarding enough for my labour and time, especially running Linux for the first time on a flsh drive. This is what I think I shall do, install Linux Mint Xfce on the 16.2GB flash drive now in use, use it for as long as it lasts,and fighting for an answer to the question why a damage on one board affects the other.

No root file system defined. Try to familarize with Linux Mint. I tried to install Linux Mint Xfce today. Just practise. A few steps, stuck. A message saying "No root file system defined. Please correct this from the partitioning menu."

About Linux Mint. Everything is running normally after a restart. Yes, I downloaded linuxmint-21-cinnamon-64bit.ISO image file. "Xfce is better suited for older hardware " I will install Xfce, maybe 2 weeks later when I am a little bit used to this new OS. About the old PC. "hard drive is dead, but your computer itself is okay." I have 3 SATA hard drives. One burnt, the other 2 are good. Anyone of the 2 good hard drives is connected to a connector on the SATA power peripheral cable, BIOS does not know there is a hard drive at all. And Windows Installer cannot find (1)any hard drive and (2)any hard drive DRIVERS no matter which one of my 2 hard drives is connected for OS installation. What makes me confused is the question "What carries the accident damage from one motherboard to another?" The parts used on both motherboards are: CPU, RAM, battery CR2032, optical drive, keyboard, and mouse. It is very possible that either CPU or RAM or CR2032 carries the damage record from one motherboard to another. I really do not know, just guessing.

Downloaded Linux-Mint-Cinnamon-32-bit but it became 64bit anyway all by itself. Firefox through Google opened up YouTube for about one minute, and then it turned itself off. After this, Firefox could not go anywhere. There was always a "Server not found" everytime Firefox started browsing anything. Maybe I did not operate right. But I am happy to have this wonderful feeling of touching something of Linus. and THANK YOU VERY, VERY MUCH!

Thank you. "physically damaged or some sort of static electricity damage" I am an amateur photographer. And I like listening to music while working on post processing. The PC the one we are talking about was for that only, news and music. Around a month ago, it did not start regularly, didn't start sometimes. I bout a second hand PSU, Corsair RM650x, and a second hand MB, G45T AM2 V:1.0 identical to the OEM MB , and set them up for testing. The PC started if HDD was not connected to SATA power connector. Had the HDD connected to a connector on the shorter peripheral cable, the one designed for optical drive, the PC started and ran half a day normally just as any good PC. Connectors were not inserted tightly, I thought. Had the HDD connected back to the longer cable designed for hard drives and inserted them tight & turned power on. A sharp burst and a smell and the HDD was burning hot... the HDD was burnt. Had another HDD inserted to a connector on the short cable as did a few minutes before and tried to reinstall OS, installer started working normally until it came to selecting hard drive. There was no hard drive and installer found no any drivers for hard drive. Checked BIOS. No HDD data, just a blank space. Removed CPU, RAM, and CR2032 and put them back to the OEM MB and tried to install OS. Absurdly strange, the same thing happened to this MB, installer found no HDD, no any drivers, and the BIOS on this MB had no HDD data either. Now, cannot use HDD on either one of these 2 motherboards. The possibilities of running this PC are (1) the optical drive and (2) USB flash drive. Optical drive, I have tried, a live CD. Too slow and almost impossible to go on internet. This is why I want to try a live USB flash drive. "(did you try all of the SATA ports(?)" Yes, I did and tried 4 different SATA cables. "the old IDE" Doesn't matter whether it's an old IDE or a new SATA, you can not do anything if there is no driver and no hard drive data in BIOS. "or are you certain it's definitely damaged?" The hard drive? Yes, certainly is is burnt. The motherboard? Do not know. Windows installer finds no any drivers. Drivers are usually stored on motherboard, I assume. Is this right? "how much RAM does that computer have?" Originally, the PC's OS was Vista and had 2GB RAM. I increased it to 8GB 7 months after the purchase and installed Win 7 pro. When I bought new PCs in 2015, I had the GPU and floppy drive and the fan on rear end wall removed and reduced RAM to 4GB, 2 x 2GB. The PC was running with the case open since 2015. Here are some of the specs: PC : Acer aspire M5700 OS : Windows 7 Pro. 32b. CPU: Intel Core2 Quad CPU RAM: DDR2 800 SDRAM 4G GPU: Removed & use on board Intel® G45 PSU: Liteon 6301-08Ak, replaced by RM650x for test. MB : G45T AM2 V:1.0 HDD: WD600BEVS Scorpio 60GB BIOS:American Megatrends V.02.16 "Linux Mint 21.0-Xfce" In 2010, someone suggested using Ubuntu. For 3 reasons: Simple, Safe, and Free. I tried and found it was not simple, and hard to run, for me. I quit a few months later. Simply because I could not remember that many commands to run it. Have not tried anything else since. I do not have much knowledge and technology as you do. I am just a common PC user. Excuse me for asking the following questions: 1.It is a "bootable" USB stick. Does it require installation? 2.What size of a USB drive it requires? 3.Suggestion where to download?

Thank you again. The motherboard of this PC is damaged, an accident happened a few weeks ago and damaged the motherboard disabling hard drive drivers. The possibility of installing OS to a hard drive on this PC is next to none. Both BIOS & MB are old, 15~17 years old. The DVD drive is good, and also USB ports. Have tried a live CD, but it is too slow and cannot go on internet. The purpose of making a live USB flash drive is to be able to use Google Chrome so that I can watch and listen to news and music. This is all what I hope, have no intention to run the OS for any other tasks.

Thank you, ThaCrip. Ventoy makes "bootable" USB flash drives. I need a flash drive that can run the OS, a live flash drive.

I have Win 7 install DVD and want to make it a live USB. The live USB is going to be made by Win32DiscImager which does not recognize image files with ISO extension names, I therefore have to have an image file with IMG extension name. How to burn the on-DVD-Win 7 into an image file with IMG extension name, please? Thank you.

Thank you, dbminter. "If you have a GPARTED ISO, you need to use the Write image file to disc option from the E-Z Picker and choose the ISO to burn to CD." Yes, I have the ISO files of gparted-live, 451mb in many folders. Do you meam there are 2 steps I have to go? First step, Write image file to disc. This is to write the downloaded ISO files to hard drive disc? Am I right? Second step, then, choose that ISO files (the ISO files on hard drive disc just made by first step) to burn to CD, to an empty CD. Am I right?

Thank you, dbminter. Have checked just a minute ago, the entire folder of gparted-live ISO files are written on the CD. I used "Write files/folders to disc" to burn. But the image file on the newly burnt disc is not recognized when the disc is put into the PC to boot. At the beginning of the booting process, it begins to boot the CD, but it dies off after 8 or 10 seconds. Says on the screen, "CD-ROM Boot Priority...Boot Ready. Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in Selected Boot device and press a key." Does it matter if CD is burnt by a different PC? The CD is burnt on a PC running Windows 10 and the burnt CD is used on a PC running Windows Vista, where the live-CD dose not boot. Is it because the boot manager of the old PC cannot read the image files on the CD burnt by the new PC, Windows 10?

Downloaded ISO files, a folder, of gparted-live CD, 451mb, and tried to burn it onto an empty CD, but failed. Seems that it did not write anything onto the empty CD. No trace of writing on the empty CD. At the bottom of Imgburn, it says, Not Ready (Drive Can't Write inserted Disc). Help, please. How to burn ISO files of live CD onto an empty CD? Thank you.