update & upgrade error/fail

[Grizzly]

07 February 2023  at 12:11, Little Girl wrote:
Re: update & upgrade error/fail (at least in part)

>I agree with Aaron that that's either a big red flag that the drive is failing
>or that you should, at the very least, treat that drive with full suspicion
>for now, not using it for anything that matters. 

Agreed

>Your mention of going into Windows on that drive as something that works fine
>makes me wonder if there's not something that got messed up in the
>installation of Windows. I haven't put Windows on a drive that's shared with
>Ubuntu in many years, but I seem to remember that Windows used to try to use
>or overwrite parts of the drive for itself (stomping on Ubuntu as a result)
>and that that was a problem that had to be delicately overcome when dual
>booting. 

As I think I mentioned (or should have) that drive came from bricked Asus 
(power cut while BIOS updateed) with Win7 already on it, it does dual boot 
(update-grub found it) but works best if F12 choose to boot Win7 drive