Hey all,
I finally made the jump into Linux and have installed POP!OS on my laptops Samsung 4TB SSD.
I also have 2 other m.2 Samsung 2TB ssd’s installed in the laptop.
I formatted both the m.2 drives and changed file systems to NTFS as I was not able to see the drives when trying to install windows as secondary OS.
I have looked into a bunch of different things and keep thinking that its either something to do with the filesystem or yeah I don’t know I’m at a bit of a loss right now.
Have tried a few things but none seem to work to get the windows boot loader to see the disk drives.
Any help would be awesome
You don’t see the drives from the MS Windows install drive? MS Windows 11?
When you see the drives aren’t seen, are they the physical drives or the volumes (the formatted partitions)
Are your MS Windows disks partitioned with a GPT format?
I formatted the 2 m.2 drives and changed the partition table to msdos not GPT. I will change it to GPT and then try again to see if I can see the actual disks. Give me 2 mins and I will update progress.
Note POP!OS is still installed on the samsung 4TB ssd
ok drives still didn’t show up
Did you format them from within Windows?
Windows is notoriously bad at recognizing there are other OSes and file systems out there, unfortunately.
Format the drives in Windows and it should work just fine. Windows will not see your Linux partitions formatted as ext4 / ZFS / BTRFS.
I am unable to format the drives in windows as windows doesn’t see the drives. I can see the drives in Linux and if i swap the drives out to different systems they also don’t show up in windows, but they will show up in a linux system.
I have changed the drives to partition table GPT and file system NTFS but I have had to do this using gparted in linux.
The drives do show up in BIOS also
Where did you install the bootloaders. I hope on difrent drives.
Change the boot order to you linux system. And then change your grub from there
bootloaders on different drives
Linux on 4tb SSD
and trying to install windows on one of the m.2 2TB drives
Can you see the drives in the Windows Disk Manager utility, or in the device manager?
Then it should be simpel. You should be able to boot from the 4tb drive. Windows bootloader is not going to dual boot Grub is
the drives don’t show up at all in windows but they show up in BIOS I cant even see them in CMD when i’m trying to find them that way hoping I can do something with it.
I don’t have windows installed on this system, I am currently trying to install windows on this system on a separate drive to Linux but that drive is not showing up whilst trying to install windows
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It is possible that I’m not understanding something here as I’m still very much a linux noob, but I did look through the forum to see if I could find something specific to my issue before posting here.
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Sorry i was on phone. So you have acces to the linux os ?
You have to prepare the disk. or clean it of all partions.
windows will not detect any other partion tables. Because they don’t believe they excist. If there is no partion table windows install will created one
what do’s
sudo fdisk -l
print ?
from windows install this is also posible
- From inside Windows Setup, press Shift+F10 to open a command prompt window.
- Type diskpart and enter.
3…Type list disk .(look for your disk number, check the size of the disk)
- Type select disk . example: select disk0 (select the disk you want to format)
- Type clean.
- Type convert gpt.
- Close the command prompt window.
- Continue the Windows Setup installation.
If you are not sure. Post pictures of where you are
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Other posibility, And i’ve didn’t see that in ages. Windows install might not have your sata / raid drivers. Download them extract them and put them on usb. You can then add them with the load driver option
Reading the entire post its also not this but kinda this.
What laptop are you using ?
i gues you need the Intel Rapid storage driver
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Sorry for the slow reply mate it’s an Acer nitro 5
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