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January 2, 2022 at 7:32 pm #74465
Arius
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    You could “pull” one drive at a time and boot from LiveUSB to isolate each drive.

    What is “pulling” and “isolating” a drive?
    I’m not entirely sure, but a LiveUSB is a USB boot disk that allows me to try out an operating system without installing it, right? Except why would I do that if the OS is already installed?

    But we don’t have more details yet, for example which ISO image you installed.

    This is me: antiX-21 “Grup Yorum” released on 31 October 2021.

    Hopefully that answers your question, since I have no idea how to figure out which ISO image I installed.
    I know I see “Grup Yorum” when I boot up and I am definitely running antiX-21.
    (Btw, is it pronounced “Auntie Ex,” or “antics”?)

    Gracias for your help, Marcelo. The tip about running zzz-IceWM and using the Open Root Window option was very helpful.

    I was able to determine that it is the SATA drive that is running antiX, and the IDE drive (sdb2) that still has Windows on it. So if I’m understanding this correctly – it is the Windows architecture / formatting on the drive that is making it hard to navigate to? Can I just format the drive to something linux-compatible and have that be the end of it? If so, how??? (I already backed up the IDE drive a long time ago, so I’m not concerned about losing whatever is on there.)

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