[conspire] making a FlashDrive look like a CD

[jose tav]

Hello Folks,I have a pain with LinuxMint on a Flash drive, which after few two or three boots getting corrupted.The only way I know how to alleviate a little bit the pain is by running Linux out of CD drive. But then I got another kind of pain -toooo slowwww.
The best option out of two I can think of, would be to Install Linux on a flash drive with all the apps I will need and then "encapsulate" it,  a la CD so that Window's s^*(&% won't corrupt my system, in other words the machine start getting very sluggish, cursor jump around while typing, YES touchpad is set to inactivity. Also the BIOS get reset to allow ONLY windows to boot on power up.

Yes Linux has the encryption option, but I think it covers the Documents directory only. I used it only once, I got a little tire of he constant log-in.
There you have Folks, what you think can be done, short of purchasing a prohibitive Macboot to "fix" the problem.

Any tips, suggestions are welcome, and I will grateful for.
Have a nice weekend!

[Ivan Sergio Borgonovo]

It's not really clear what you're trying to achieve, but did you try to
put on that flash a Linux live image?

Where "live" stand for "I won't need a writeable storage device to
function".

Then you can make few changes to just mount your home on your hard disk.

Post by jose tav
Hello Folks,
I have a pain with LinuxMint on a Flash drive, which after few two or
three boots getting corrupted.
The only way I know how to alleviate a little bit the pain is by running
Linux out of CD drive. But then I got another kind of pain -toooo slowwww.
The best option out of two I can think of, would be to Install Linux on
a flash drive with all the apps I will need and then "encapsulate" it,
a la CD so that Window's s^*(&% won't corrupt my system, in other words
the machine start getting very sluggish, cursor jump around while
typing, YES touchpad is set to inactivity. Also the BIOS get reset to
allow ONLY windows to boot on power up.
Yes Linux has the encryption option, but I think it covers the Documents
directory only. I used it only once, I got a little tire of he constant
log-in.
There you have Folks, what you think can be done, short of purchasing a
prohibitive Macboot to "fix" the problem.
Any tips, suggestions are welcome, and I will grateful for.
Have a nice weekend!
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Post by jose tav
Hello Folks,I have a pain with LinuxMint on a Flash drive, which
after few two or three boots getting corrupted.The only way I know
how to alleviate a little bit the pain is by running Linux out of CD
drive. But then I got another kind of pain -toooo slowwww.
The best option out of two I can think of, would be to Install Linux
on a flash drive with all the apps I will need and then "encapsulate"
it,  a la CD so that Window's s^*(&% won't corrupt my system, in other
words the machine start getting very sluggish, cursor jump around
while typing, YES touchpad is set to inactivity. Also the BIOS get
reset to allow ONLY windows to boot on power up.
Yes Linux has the encryption option, but I think it covers the
Documents directory only. I used it only once, I got a little tire of
he constant log-in.
There you have Folks, what you think can be done, short of purchasing
a prohibitive Macboot to "fix" the problem.
Any tips, suggestions are welcome, and I will grateful for.
Have a nice weekend!

Hi, Jose. I delayed responding to your query because your question
raises other questions. Specifically, I kept getting the uncomfortable
feeling that you may be seeking to solve the wrong problem.

Your second paragraph seems to suggest you suspect that your
installation of MS-Windows is corrupting the Linux Mint installation you
have on a flash drive. Leaving aside that it's unclear what you mean by
'getting corrupted', I just don't see what you suggest as plausible.
Frankly, I don't even see how it would be _possible_.

That is, when you boot to Linux Mint, by booting from the flash drive,
you are not running any code of any kind on your system hard drive where
MS-Windows resides. So, given that no part of MS-Windows gets executed,
there is no way that it can 'corrupt' the flash drive at that time, or
do anything at all, for that matter.

Of course, if you _also_ leave the flash drive attached when rebooting
to MS-Windows, _then_ it would in theory be possible for MS-Windows, or
some program run by MS-Windows (including MS-Windows malware) to write
(something) to the flash drive. The obvious way to prevent that would
be to disconnect the flash drive before rebooting to MS-Windows.

Your account was so vague that I need to stop there, e.g., we're left
with no clear understanding of what the course of events was.

In a larger sense, you ought to concentrate on figuring out what --
ccording to you -- is writing to your flash drive without your
permission. That is very abnormal behaviour, and, e.g., is not
something MS-Windows does on its own initiative. So, something bad is
going on (according to your account), and you haven't figured out what
that thing is. _That_ is what you should work on, figuring that out,
not seeking to throw encryption at the problem.