[Scott(0)]

Excellent reply gold_finger, thanks!

[Floydcat2]

Oh happy day!! Thank you, thank you gold_finger! I followed your instructions and my computer properly boots up. No more safe mode, no more crazy error messages. And it booted quickly.

This is what happens when people (meaning me) are raised solely on Windows and are not taught real computer skills. I screwed up a simple thing and gave myself a headache.

Thanks so much gold_finger!

Thanks also to Scott(0)!

I appreciate both of you being helpful and patient with me!

[gold_finger]

Glad everything worked out.

Just out of curiosity -- were there any familiar files of yours under that /home/kathy/ntfsfiles directory?


P.s.  Go ahead and mark the post as solved.  (I'm not sure how to do that myself, but if there is no obvious way, just edit the first post on this thread and add "Solved" to the title.)

[Floydcat2]

No, the folder is empty.  But it makes sense because I am starting from scratch. This was definitely the hardest part of the installation process for me. I wish that the installation manual had just a couple of extra sentences in that section to fully explain things for novices such as myself. Thank goodness for forums and the kindness of strangers.

[gold_finger]

Well, that mount point and fstab entry were certainly a strange occurrence.  My best guess is that it may have had something to do with this:

Perhaps I should have mentioned that my hard drive is fairly new. When my old one died a couple of months ago, I used Macrium Reflect to image the old drive and then moved everything to my new one. But now all of that is gone (on my new drive) since I installed Linux Lite.

Anyway, doesn't really matter now.  Glad it all worked out.