[Campion]

Boot from a USB stick, mount the root drive, edit /etc/shadow & remove the root password (I think)

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Contact Shadow Ace, maybe Pollard.

https://www.linuxteck.com/

Jeffery Peterson has a Linux channel on Telegram.

[Paladin2]

Sign in as a guest.

Get a new HD, load linux mint. Poke around the “old” HD.

[Westbrook]

Save your data.

Get the latest mint image.

Reinstall with your new partition scheme.

As for your password, boot in single user mode to get to the root account.

Change your user password from there.

This is why Linux users should encrypt their boot disk.

But if you had, then you’d be hosed.

[brianl703]

Add to the bootloader command line: init=/bin/bash

Then at the # prompt:

mount -n -o,rw /

passwd root

[brianl703]

correction..use:

mount -n -o remount,rw /

[markomalley]

Here:

https://www.tecmint.com/reset-forgotten-root-password-in-linux-mint/

[NetAddicted]

Rd comments later.

[minnesota_bound]

I will do the opposite that people will post here about windows and say to get Linux.

Get Windows 11. It is a dream : )