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I wonder if I must isolate the OS on a drive by itself to avoid locking a drive with working files on it.
My download drive is now locked and that is a terrible inconvenience, to say the least.
Is it possible to have the OS on a drive without the drive being locked so there is normal file access?
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Are you saying that Fossapup64 9.5 is a frugal install on a drive and you boot it from that install?
The drive is locked and you cannot write to it?
Are you sure the download drive is mounted?
That should be all that is required to read and write to it. Mount the drive partition(s).
Frugal installs, using a save file/folder, located on the same partition the frugal install is on.
will automatically mount the partition and it will be read/write capable.
If the save is located on a different drive or partition.
That location is always auto-mounted on boot up.
Auto-mounting is controlled by the location of the save file/folder.
If the frugal install is on a different partition than the save is on. It does not need to be mounted after boot up.
Everything in it is loaded into RAM.
It is not auto-mounted.
To access it you have to mount it.
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The things you do not tell us, are usually the clue to fixing the problem.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be older.
This is not what I expected 
please describe in detail why you think the drive is locked
please describe in detail what inconvienences you experience
so there is normal file access
please describe in detail what you consider "normal file access' to be, and what behavior that you expect that does not work for you.
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williwaw wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 9:47 pmplease describe in detail why you think the drive is locked
please describe in detail what inconvienences you experienceso there is normal file access
please describe in detail what you consider "normal file access' to be, and what behavior that you expect that does not work for you.
Ok, it is a moot point now. I rebooted the laptop from a thumb drive and chose RAM-only from the menu and those problems are gone.
Thanks.
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