Laptop refuses to boot

[MR ZenWiz]

On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 5:33 AM Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
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> OK. Use Windows to check the firmware is current. If not, update it.
>
I ran the Dell Support app and it downloaded 4Gb of updates and claims
to have installed them.

I rebooted and now the app is getting errors and not running again,
but it seems to have worked.  I was able to boot from a new Xubuntu
18.04.2 DVD I burned. Oonce it was up and running, I cancelled the
install and powered-off the machine (too late last night for
intelligent processing).

This morning It booted normally from the hard drive, so all appears to be well.

> Install one of the free Ext2/3/4 readers for Windows, then you can
> mount the Linux drives and back everything up.
>
> https://www.howtogeek.com/112888/3-ways-to-access-your-linux-partitions-from-windows/
>
Fortunately I don't think I'll need to go that route, but I will
definitely back up the files.  It's been a while since the last one.

Thanks everyone!

Mark