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rsync is working as I write.

Can't thank you enough.

I will certainly read up on the commands as you suggest.

Would you advise a beginner like me to stick to ext4 partitions...

So the ls command produces


ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ls -la /media/ubuntu/SAMSUNG
total 273804
drwxrwxrwx 1 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Feb 23 2013 '$RECYCLE.BIN'
drwxrwxrwx 1 ubuntu ubuntu 20480...

I have edited my posts as you asked I think, let me know if I haven't done it correctly.

So I checked that Samsung is still sdc1 and it is
When I put in your revised command I get
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When I do as you suggest I get the following


ubuntu@ubuntu:/tmp/disk/home/simon$ file /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1: block special (8/1)
ubuntu@ubuntu:/tmp/disk/home/simon$ file /mnt/tmp
/mnt/tmp:...

Thanks so much for looking at this
mkdir gives me this

ubuntu@ubuntu:/tmp/disk/home/simon$ sudo mkdir /mnt/sam ; mount /dev/sdc1
mount: /dev/sdc1: can't find in /etc/fstab.




ls -al ...

I have 16.04 on my computer which now won't boot.

from a 18.04 pen drive

lvdisplay gives me /dev/ubuntu-vg/root and a swap partition

I activated the volumes with vgchange -a y ubuntu-vg and...

No I didn't have the media intact - I wiped it to load BootRescueDisk! But I've downloaded 16.04 again and with the help of a friend's laptop I've burnt it to a usb stick using Rufus. I'm just about...

Thanks for those suggestions. Trouble is that, after successful downloads, I can't actually get BootRepairDisk to extract and run either of them.
Is there a way that I could save the contents of...

you're right of course it was NTLDR - should have checked my spelling more closely. Thank you! I have edited the post accordingly. The UEFI gives me 4 options for booting and I triied all 4 in turn...

Last week I downloaded openGl so that I could use SketchUp on my desktop (SketchUp doesn't recognise my Haswell on board graphics chip). /the next day I rebooted my machine and it came up with the...