Fine Details needed for partitioning & mounts in a legacy laptop with WinXP32 on

[gold_finger]

Many thanks Gold_Finger , it worked , I am however unable to delete things from it .

If you mean that it won't allow you to delete or put things in "trash", open a terminal and enter the following code to list the contents under that directory.

Change directory (cd) to the new Windows_Data directory

Code:

cd Windows_Data

List (ls) contents under it showing details and hidden files (files that have names beginning with a period ".")

Code:

ls -la

Look to see if one of the listings is ".Trash-1000".

If it exists, make sure it is owned by you and not by root.  It will show either "wombat66  wombat66", or "root  root" next to it.  If it shows "root  root", change ownership to you with following command:

Code:

sudo chown -R wombat66: /home/wombat66/Windows_Data/.Trash-1000

If it does not exist, you need to create it.

Code:

mkdir /home/wombat66/Windows_Data/.Trash-1000

You should now be able to delete things from that partition.

Is it also possible to do the same for the other main Windows drive ?

Yes, but since that is the Windows system partition, you need to be careful when accessing things there.  You don't want to accidentally delete/change Windows system files.  If you only want occasional temporary access to that partition, it would be best to just access it by clicking it's icon on the desktop or in the file manager whenever you need to do that; rather than having it auto-mounted every time you use Linux Lite.

If you do want frequent access to it, just go through same steps as you did for other partition.  You will need to specify the correct UUID for that partition (see output of blkid command) and use a different mount point name (don't use spaces in the name).  When creating the two new lines for the fstab file, the first one (that begins with a "#") is just a brief description of what the second line is doing.  The second line is the one that actually gets implemented -- use same format as you did before, except substitute the new partition UUID and the new mount point name.

Where should I go to add language options for the keyboard and key combinations to toggle back and forth such as Alt+Shift ?

Check the Help Manual under the "Hardware" heading.