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I'm so sorry if this is in the wrong forum, hella lost to be honest haha.

Okay. So here's the scenario, a bit of a long one.
For two days I have struggled to get my father's fubar'd laptop running. Something nuked the hard drive and made it unusable.
I've been running off of various thumb drives containing Linux (most notably Puppy tbh) for about seven years, it was a piece of cake. I made a live USB for him to try Lite, he liked it, I went to install it on the thumb drive. Apparently in the way that Lite partitions things, it only gave him 6gb to work with and most of it was used up by OS. There were about 349834983 issues and in the end, I just took the live DVD I burned and a new, fresh 32gb drive to install it onto on my own PC as compared to his laptop.
This time, unlike the other installs, I had no errors. No bootloader issues like I had previously encountered, it was perfect.
I gave it to my dad to try on his laptop, which has FAR better hardware than my terrible PC (3ghz processor and 8gb ram iirc, compared to my 2ghz and 6gb ram), and it's oddly sluggish. The other three installs (live USB, live CD and the semi-working thumb drive that only had a little space to work with) were relatively fast, but this one is a little slow. It locks up if I try to load programs, or takes a few seconds to load them. Dad said it's fine so it's no rush, I'm just wondering if I can fix this and if so, how? please don't say another install im crying im pleading im begging the install screen is something im gonna see in my nightmares at this rate

Hi Kotori,

As the specialists seem busy I'm kicking off the support by actually finding out what is going on

Have you checked the following?

• RAM usage (incl. SWAP)
  
• CPU usage
  
• disk r/w activities
  

If you need help how to do this let us know.
In general, I'd be glad to have such hardware available. So if you're not heavily transcoding movies, compiling software, browsing with 200 tabs open etc. you should be fine.

Honestly, I noticed the slowness the moment it booted up. I tried to open Terminal to see if Firefox would crash (which has been an issue with the installs), and it froze when I tried to open it. @_@

Since I'm new to LinuxLite, what programs do those things? I think I spotted somewhere that TOP is installed, yes?

Something I came up with last night, do I need to return xorgwizard or whatever the name is for the proper drivers, since it's on a completely different machine? Because it's configured for my PC and not my father's laptop?

Do you have UEFI enabled in the BIOS, or are you using Legacy Boot?

Will have to check. Does that matter though considering the other drive worked fine, and only this one that I made on my own PC is the one lagging?

I'm having some trouble following your post.  I can't tell if you're installing Linux Lite to a hard drive or as a persistent install to a flash drive.  If you're trying a persistent install, search the forum on that.  If you're installing to a hard drive, compare what you've done to the install guide in the Linux Lite Help Manual...https://www.linuxliteos.com/manual/

Ah, my apologies, I'm not the best at explaining things. Here is the Cliff Notes of my post:

- Install on HDD failed: I/O errors.
- I made one persistent USB install of LinuxLite on a 16gb drive, while using my father's laptop. I had some errors, but it works fine except for the fact there is not enough room on the drive for him to store all his files.
- We tried to make a persistent USB install using a brand new 32gb drive while using his laptop. Exact same brand and model as the 16gb (SanDisk Cruzer Glide). We tried this on his laptop, but there were a lot of errors and GRUB did not install properly.
- I wiped the drive and made a persistent USB install on my own computer, not his laptop. No errors, works fine, but the system is VERY slow when used on the laptop (programs lock up/freeze, internet runs slowly).

I know how to install, I've been running Linux for upwards of twelve years now. I just seem to have issues with this persistent USB install that I did (created, if we want to clear) on my PC and I would like to know how to fix it. The drive is perfectly fine otherwise, it's just very slow.

Hi, me again. I went to get the drive in question (the 32gb one) and plugged it into my own computer. It won't even mount. I get a blinking white light when I attempt to boot from it. Is the drive bad or what?

Hi Kotori,

I would start here:

• verify that the ISO you use for installation is OK (md5sum)
  
• check your USB stick hardware/ file system (Which system have you got available to check it?)
  

In regard to my first post, you're correct 'top' will give you info about system load, swap, RAM, CPU.
You can also use 'htop'.

If you prefer a GUI you can go with:

• menu -> System -> System Monitor
  
• menu -> System -> Task Manager
  

Disk i/o specific information you could gain via

• 'iotop' (needs to be installed and run as root/with sudo)
  
• 'glance' (needs to be installed and covers also RAM, CPU, network etc.)
  

In general, you have mentioned errors here and there. Only if I knew exactly why they show up and that the underlying issue won't influence my system, I would keep going with my installation/ use of the system. Otherwise they need to be investigated/ solved.

Hope that helps