<div dir="auto">I'd personally reinstall with the latest version having being downloaded on USB first. If you had separated the /home directory from / at the beginning, that would make life easier. If you hadn't, then back up the /home directory first, reinstall, then restore.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I use Mint on all my kit at home, with a dual boot Windows partition. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best of luck!</div><div dir="auto">Marcus</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 6 Feb 2021, 11:46 Bill Thomson via Swlug, <<a href="mailto:swlug@mailman.lug.org.uk">swlug@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u> <div><div dir="auto" style="unicode-bidi:embed">Hi team, I hope you're all well :)</div><div dir="auto" style="unicode-bidi:embed"><p><br></p><p>I have a slight problem. I installed Linux Mint 19.3 onto a friend's computer to create a dual boot (Windows/Linux Mint) capability. When I installed the Linux Mint 19.3, from a USB drive, I set an administrative password for future updates etc. However, I have forgotten the password I set, and the list of updates is now quite impressive!</p><p><br></p><p>Is there any way of reminding myself of the password, or of changing it?<br></p><p><br></p><p>Alternately, I could reinstall Linux for my friend. How do I go about doing that? Do I have to uninstall the original installation first, and if so, how?</p><p><br></p><p>The very few files that are on the Linux installation have already been backed up onto a separate USB stick.</p><p><br></p><p>I'd welcome your expertise on this knotty little problem please. It's obviously important that my friend's Windows installation stays intact.</p><p><br></p><p>I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you!</p><p><br></p><p>Bill Thomson<br></p></div> </div>-- <br>
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