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2. In Gparted I get an error message "Invalid partition table - recursive partition /dev/sb". And shows the whole partition to be "unallocated".
3. Yet the Live USB works perfectly - on my 64-bit machine, anyway.
Thank you for your suggestions.The old laptop is a Dell D505 and must be about 15 years old. It has Peppermint 3 that I installed ages ago and works well, if not up-dateable. Pretty sure I used a USB stick, but I'm not sure after all this time. . I've looked at the Plop Boot manager website and it looks all to easy for a novice to screw up his computer - one really needs to understand the words! Which I don't. . Swapping HDDs means taking apart two laptops - hmm!. Creating a live DVD looks like the best option, though it will take a while for me to get some. Which image writer would you recommend for that? By the way; although both the 64-bit and 32-bit Peppermint Live USBs don't display in file manager or Gparted (for the reasons you mention), the Ubuntu 18 LiveUSB does display in file manager, but is "unallocated" in Gparted.
Can you recommend a DVD writer that will write an image disk?
The original purpose was to install P9 on a very old Dell 505 but when I tried to do so, it failed. On the first Peppermint screen there appeared some mostly illegible text of which all I could make out was something like " inappropriate....kernel....CPU...".So I guess the machine is just too old to cope with a modern operating system.
IIRC Peppermint 7 and 8 had an i386 kernel and not i686, and they're supported until 2021 .. I can let you know for sure later.
cat /proc/cpuinfo