I tried. I finally wanted to switch away from Windows and installed mint. Spent about 3 hours trying to get my headphone jacks to work with some mildly obscure tools and commands but no dice. Then I managed to destroy one of my partitions by trying to Mount it but it gave me an obscure error. Searched the forums and found NTFS fix, well turns out I accidentally had turned the partition dynamic when moving it to a larger drive. NTFS fix didn't like that and promptly destroyed the file table. I lost a buch of data. So back to the cruddy Windows then...I'm not tech savvy enough, which is sad.

[–] drctrl@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Backups before doing anything else with partitions (or OS in general)

[–] TalesFromTheKitchen@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

Yes, all the important stuff was backed up naturally. Still lost some, I'd say "nostalgic old files" It just happens when you have large drives you can't just back it up without paying lots.

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