DoYouKubuntu: I don't have to reinstall?

[Red-4]

Allow me to suggest that if you are prone to using reinstalling as a cure for problems then the next time you reinstall use the BTRFS as the root file system. That way you can create a snapshot of your system in a couple of seconds and if things go south you can roll back to the snapshot in a minute or two. Note: you have to use the manual partition route. Since you have a new HP you'll be using the GPT partition method.

GreyGeek, I wouldn't say I'm prone to reinstalling.. I have gone years on a Windows installation without needed a reinstall. I just don't know Linux well and when I've exhausted all the commands I can find online to try to repair things and it still doesn't work, then I don't know what's left. I don't want to be reinstalling.

Here's some more information about my issue. I have gone to a terminal from the Samba Failure, logged in and run "startx". The errors I get are:
xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
xinit: server error

Why do I need servers or connections or Samba just to load the OS and GUI anyway?

Anyone have an idea how I can fix this? Again this only started happening after I plugged this boot drive into different hardware.

Thank you

[GreyGeek]

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Anyone have an idea how I can fix this? Again this only started happening after I plugged this boot drive into different hardware.

Thank you

When you installed it on the original hardware the system was configured to run on that hardware. If you plugged that configured drive into another computer what the OS expects and what the hardware presents maybe/is two different things. The OS is bound to throw errors for various devices on the new hardware. In Linux, EVERYTHING is a file, i.e., things (monitors, mice, touchpads, displays, video chips, wifi, sockets, printers, etc...) are represented by files on the storage device. All those files may have to be reconfigured to match your new hardware.

I don't know if the following will work in your specific case, and I've never had a need to try it since I began using Linux in May of 1998, but you could boot a LiveUSB of the OS you want to use, go through the configuration steps until you get to the HD section. Choose manual partition, and select each partition existing in the GPT table, but DO NOT select the "format" option for each one. Proceed with the install. The installer should write the new configs to the partitions without reformatting them and losing all your none-OS data. If this won't work I'm sure someone will jump in here and tell me my idea is dumb.