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Five distros on one PC? Not there yet

Haven't found ways to set defaults, either with Save format or margins. Have wandered into Tools but can't get settings to stick. My work-around for (erratic) conversion is to Ctrl-A, then Copy a document in OO and then paste into a blank MSO file and adjust layout as needed. My beef with...

Already pared down to the pair of drives that have the boot and Windows partitions, omitting the one with boot leaves me with the GRUB message. Attached two pictures from phone, one showing the BIOS menu for my Pavillion and the other an exterior shot to help identify (ancient) unit. Also...

Already know about installing Mint before Majaro, and why I'll only have those distros installed on my PC, others will be tested with VirtualBox (Qubes' got my fancy but need [far] more time to practice)

'Pavillion (primary)" Tried ' ls ' on all drives and found no distros (not installed). But go over what happened with this Pavillion tower. Somehow, while changing boot drives, the 100MB boot section of Windows got left on the original drive (missed deleting) while the OS files got installed...

Already tried rescue and install discs, just get into 'can't repair 'loops. Found OpenOffice still has trouble converting to/from Word, hence I retain a 15-year-old version (no .docx for me) as a Must-Have. Already found PC keeps tally on my drive[s) even swapping the cables, hence this is a...

First off, need to say my PC is a mess (later). Have an HP Pavillion tower desktop, was running Windows 7 until using a utility on the Registry and only shows the "GRUB loading ... grub rescue". Haven't got round to dual-booting Mint or Manjaro (or both) on it just yet. What I meant by my...