[solved] parent folder doesn't exist

[ciamurra]

Yeah, that's what I do, unless my attention is somewhere else.

After force quitting and restarting VB, everything looks normal.

I restarted windows and a gparted screen came up. Then a fast-scrolling black screen with white text rolled by. Now Configuring console-data is waiting for an OK. Policy for handling keycaps is waiting for a choice from 4 options. "Don't touch keycap" is selected.

[ciamurra]

BTW, you were right about the missing GBs coming back after shutting down. I reset the drivers and now everything's much better.

[loukingjr]

okay just keep hitting ok until the main window comes up in gparted

[ciamurra]

gparted window is up. I don't remember what to do next about joining the 2 partitions. I can look back through all the posts...

[loukingjr]

you don't want to join them. the one is a swap partition

[loukingjr]

is one red and one white?

[ciamurra]

on the left, yellow with a green border. a small section on the right end of the left partition is white.
Left: /devs/sda1 (or /devs/sdal)
9.99 GiB

right: grey. unallocated 10.01 GiB outlined with dotted line

[loukingjr]

okay click on the white, select partitions from the menu, resize/move, then drag the arrow to the right until the gray is gone.

[ciamurra]

Done!

and now ... ?

[ciamurra]

Apply, right? then ...

[loukingjr]

click apply, wait for it to finish. once it's done, quit gparted. remove the .iso from Storage, and restart the windows guest.

[ciamurra]

the storage tree shows the CD as empty. The last instruction on the Terminal-like is to remove the disk, but it's already gone.

[loukingjr]

restart Windows

[ciamurra]

At the sign-in window of Windows, there's a low battery warning, but I'm plugged in and fully charged. ?? I clicked OK and another warning: Critical Battery: switch to outlet power immediately!

[loukingjr]

I have no idea what that is. A virtualmachine doesn't use batteries