Re: Fw: Fw: Grub cannot see my new hard drive

[David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>]

debian-user:

This message was only sent to the OP by mistake.


David



On 2020-06-14 18:16, Matthew Campbell wrote:
> I'm kind of stuck using the ProtonMail app on my tablet.

The message you replied to was properly indented.  Other than 
top-posting and the "name=Mathew..." field, your message looks pretty 
good.  :-)


> I would like to be able to disconnect the internal hard drive in the laptop. 

I am superstitious about old HDD's that are installed an operating -- I 
would not touch it.


> I'll need to turn off the laptop before moving it so I can look for that model number. I hope to get to that soon. I can't do that at the moment. 

Okay.


> My ISP forbids me to run my own email server at home.

You don't want to run an e-mail server at home.


It looks like ProtonMail requires that you install "ProtonMail Bridge" 
to use traditional e-mail clients (such as Thunderbird) with their services:

https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/third-party-email-client-integration-outlook-thunderbird-apple-mail-ect/

https://protonmail.com/bridge/


On 2020-06-14 18:20, Matthew Campbell wrote:
> The internal hard drive was visible to Grub, as was the other external
> USB hard drive, a Western Digital drive. Having an external hard drive
> connected with USB is not the problem. Grub was on /dev/sda and used
> to boot the Western Digital drive just fine, until Grub was
> reconfigured to boot the Toshiba hard drive instead.

I think you are making things too complicated.  KISS, disconnect the 
external drives, erase the internal drive, and install Debian.  That is 
the first step.


Then, install Thunderbird, install ProtonMail Bridge, and get them working.


On 2020-06-14 18:21, Matthew Campbell wrote:
> Man, that text really got screwed up.

Yes.


David