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I have three computers and all of them have Google Earth installed from the Package Installer. All of them are running MX-21. Two of the computers can run the program just fine, but the third one hangs during startup. The initial window is displayed, and the "Tips" window appears, but then ...

Fehlix, you are a genius! I executed the three commands above and grub installed successfully and now works. I verified that I can log into both MX and Windows without any problem. If I do a new Snapshot of the current system, will that insure that I won't have this problem again, should I need to ...

Okay, I used the Live-USB GRUB menu to navigate to a boot loader for MX-21, as opposed to Live-USB. I think it was correct because I got the usual login screen. So that much works at least.

I really appreciate the time that you are devoting to helping me solve this issue.

Sorry that I didn't post the QSI. I was going to but got sidetracked. Here is the output of the lsblk -f command: wartweasel@Wartweasel:~ $ lsblk -f NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINT fd0 loop0 squashfs 4.0 0 100% /live/linu sda ├─sda1 ntfs PQSERVICE 5C28C22E28C2074C ├─sda2 ntfs S ...

I tried to reinstall GRUB again from the MX Boot Repair tool. You were right about the disk naming. It looks like sda is the Live-USB and the computer's disk is sdb. So I tried installing to sdb, but the installation still failed as it had before. I then used your instructions to try to install GRUB ...

Here is what I've done so far: I booted from the Live USB and selected the Boot Repair option. Going through the menus, I found the Windows boot loader and it allowed me to start Windows successfully. I shut down using the Shift-Shutdown procedure. Then I Went through the above process again and ...

Okay, to recap: 1) Use the Windows tools to expand the Windows partition. 2) Insure that fast boot is not set up. I've never set up this feature myself, but I'll make sure that it wasn't set up this way by Acer. 3) Use Gparted to create an new partition for Linux in the unallocated space and then re ...

Fehlix, Before I get started on this I should ask a couple of questions, since I've never used the Windows disk management tools. 1) Since I've used Gparted to delete the MX logical drive and the extended partition, I'm assuming that when I look at the available space on the disk, it should appear ...

Thanks, Fehlix. I'll give this a try tomorrow.

Okay, upon looking into this a little more, I did manage to find a file that specifies the problem. Here is the section that defines the problem: Grow /dev/sda3 from 71.67 GiB to 101.49 GiB 00:00:00 ( ERROR ) calibrate /dev/sda3 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) path: /dev/sda3 (partition) start: 61024256 end ...