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Thanks, but the HDD, having 10 years of usage, it starting to fail.



Okay, will do. It may take 8 to 10 hours, it's a 1Tb HDD, but that's okay. :)

Thanks, it is for a HDD and it is the only drive on that laptop, So this should do the trick


$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M of=/dev/sda

Have an old Dell laptop, 10 years old, now rettired as it was giving so many problems. So, I usually use DBAN to wipe a drive. It takes a very long time. What about wiping the drive with GParted,...

You are welcome. Thanks heaps for all your help. :)

Looked in the BIOS. The external SSD is connected via a Thunderbolt port. Oh, I had to enable any USB devices on that port. Rebooted and went into Kubuntu now. Now, can I get back and boot to Windows...

Worked out a few basic GRUB commands but it didn't help much. All it told me was that the Windows 10 SSD was the OS I was booted to. Then looked in the BIOS. The external SSD is connected via a...

I have a Lenovo running Windows 10 with a SSD. Installed Kubuntu 23.10 on an EXTERNAL SSD attached to the Lenovo. The first time I attempted the install, there were fatal GRUB errors. Installed again...

The Kubuntu 23.10 install 'sort of' went okay, but .... https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2497207

Lenovo running Windows 10 with a SSD. Installed Kubuntu 23.10 on an EXTERNAL SSD attached to the Lenovo. The first time I did the installation, the GRUB errors were



Tried the install again and...

Thanks @sudodus



It has to be done in the next few days, so as you say 22.04.4 LTS is a smooth ride. If 24.04 LTS is only just released, I'd prefer to wait a few months, less bugs. Even though...

Okay thanks @sudodus



I had intended to use 23.10, and assume it is going to use Ubiquity as the installer in UEFI mode. By "touching the EFI system on the internal drive", I hope that excludes...

Step 1 was easy. Now, with step 2, does it matter if I connect the external SSD to the Dell/Kubuntu or the Lenovo/Win10 when installing from the USB pendrive ??

Do the BIOS settings of the 'host'...

Thanks for informing me of the bug issue. Does 23.10 fix the bug I wonder ? Yes, I will use GPT for sure and create the ESP as the first partition. Re waiting a few days, as "sudodus" pointed out at...

Thanks @sudodus, I tried that command on the Dell/Kubuntu


$ test -d /sys/firmware/efi && echo efi || echo bios





Okay, a smooth ride I will take. :)

I noticed with the external SSD it was auto mounted when I attached it. When I get it all setup, I will have it permanently attached to a Thunderbolt port on the Lenovo/Win10 laptop. Boot up into...

Thank you, I wish there was a "thumbs up" to give your reply. So, now after reading your post, I feel it is fine to now format the SSD , use mkusb to do a Kubuntu boot, and then install Kubuntu on...

Thanks @sudodus



Great, thanks. I can do all that from the Dell/Kubuntu.



I hadn't given it much thought, as yet. But now realising, as I have no wish to modify BIOS in either the Dell or...

I have been running that periodically. It always reports okay. I haven't run the long test as the HDD is nearly 10 years old, and assuming it is starting to fail, I will avoid that type of...

@sudodus, thanks for your reply.



Ok, so I do the gparted first, then mkusb to put Kubuntu OS on it. I use EXT4 mostly, the SSD is formatted to msdos I think, so it definitely needs formatting...

Can I use mkusb to format an external 1Tb SSD and then make it a Kubuntu boot disk ? I have used mkusb to do this to a usb, and in essence the SSD, being connected by a usb cable is nearly the same...

Someone having the same problems, same Kubutu version - https://discuss.kde.org/t/ata-revalidation-failures-and-comreset-errno-5-and-32/14319

Booting is stopping at the BIOS prompt. When I was able to go into BIOS, the boot order showed 2 entries for Ubuntu ?

Finally it booted and got a "revalidation failed" message.


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Thanks, found some info on the keyboard layout (...

That probably xplains why I have had serious graphic card problems lately - https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2493512

Beyond Compare can do this, I've used it for years. The download is at https://www.scootersoftware.com/download/ , from memory it's a 30 day usage for the trial/free.