This may show more info, not sure what it shows on your Seagate.
lsusb
Details on one port, first number is bus, second is device:
lsusb -v -s X:Y
Or
lsusb -v -s 3:2
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This may show more info, not sure what it shows on your Seagate.
lsusb
Details on one port, first number is bus, second is device:
lsusb -v -s X:Y
Or
lsusb -v -s 3:2
If you needed safe graphics, did you also install the restricted/optional drivers. Not sure in Ubuntu exactly what it says, as I use Kubuntu, calls it now.
That will install the correct graphics...
I have not had a HDD in an external USB adapter.
The one I had years ago SATA to USB, worked well for an old SSD, but was USB powered and would not spin up the old HDD.
But when researching for...
Not that I know about.
You can always use the manual methods to repair, update or totally reinstall grub. You only have to have essential system partition(s) mounted, ESP, / (root) and if...
You are showing the Locked NVRAM issue which I am not sure is a real issue or just a bug in modprobe, grub or Boot-Repair.
But as fatal error seems to stop grub or Boot-Repair from finishing.
Error...
Back when only booting with HDDs we would sometimes see drive order change. Part of reason UUIDs became way to mount partitions. BIOS would order drives in order they came up and HDDs did not always...
I agree with tea for one on biting the bullet & changing Windows to UEFI.
But good backups are required as change from MBR(msdos) to gpt will totally erase drive.
I have seen users dual boot in...
What format is /mnt/Crucial?
Space issues? I run this as part of my script, so I know if starting to use too much space.
df -hT -x squashfs -x tmpfs -x devtmpfs
What version of Ubuntu?
Do you have xfsprogs installed?
Post in code tags:
cat /etc/fstab
lsblk -e 7 -o name,fstype,size,fsused,label,UUID,mountpoint
How to use code tags, easier in Forum's...
Since two drives, you do not have to have both systems in UEFI mode, but it is highly recommended.
Microsoft required vendors to install in UEFI boot mode to gpt partitioned drives since 2012 and...
You can try testdisk to see if it sees old partitions.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
repairs including testdisk info & links
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery#Lost_Partition...
I do not think command includes "on" as key word?
I have seen & used:
sudo smartctl -t short /dev/sda
Or this which I just ran and shows passed.
fred@z170-noble:~$ sudo smartctl -H /dev/sda...
Did you install nVidia driver with new install?
#What is installed
dkms status
#To see video:
lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display'
lspci -vnn | grep VGA -A 12
With those specs you should...
If you have good backups, it should not take long to restore system.
I can reinstall in 10 minutes. I export list of installed apps & use that to restore them & rsync /home from backup into system....
I have installed nothing from Brother. And do not think I installed anything with my Kubuntu.
It all just worked as soon as it saw printer.
This shows a lot of info....
What version, flavor of Ubuntu?
My Brother Laser printed just works in 22.04 & 24.04.
In 22.04 I would get 3 printers and only one really worked.
...
It sees an empty drive.
sda 0B
You can see if smartstatus says anything about drive.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Smartmontools
In Disks alias gnome-disks you can click...
Was this intentional on your part? Install is also in BIOS boot mode.
Microsoft has required UEFI/gpt since 2012, so almost all hardware is UEFI. And old (very old) BIOS install was allowed only...
This has an extra space which is not obvious
lsblk -e 7 -o name,fstype,size,fsused,label,partlabel,mountpoint ,uuid,partuuid
remove space before ,uuid
Make sure all drives are connected and in...
The site you are posting to is a banned word on this site.
Normally with Ubuntu, Boot-Repair posts to pastebin, but since Mint I guess it uses something else?
Moved to Mint sub-forum since not...
Is this also you?
I prefer a forum like this for issues requiring back & forth or more complex issues. AskUbuntu is one question & one answer....
It was in 2012 that Microsoft required vendors to install Windows 8 in UEFI boot mode to gpt partitioned drive.
Most Windows 7 installs were to MBR(msdos) partition drives in BIOS boot mode.
...
Post link to summary report, so we can see issue.
You can chroot into your system. And reinstall grub or make other repairs.
UEFI chroot, must include ESP - efi system partition...
My Dell Laptop had major issues & I had to return it for new motherboard. (Twice)
First time both Windows & Ubuntu kept working.
But second time I think Dell forgot to put the old Product key back...
Does not grub entry get added when installing?
Or if installed does not os-prober find other installs?
sudo os-prober
examples from cavfan...