[orca-list] Linux does not see the internal SSD on my laptop/what to do...

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

Sorry for going OT here, but many of you know who I am and know I would 
much prefer to be using one or more Linux distros for 98-99% of my work 
and play as I have most of the last 10 years rather than being stuck in 
windows or the limited Linux one can run from win10 run box.

I bought a new computer for the 2nd time in my life  around the 1st of 
December of 2018. After getting sighted help to work with bios settings 
to enable booting from USB pendrives, set function keys to work as such 
and following instructions re secure boot to install Linux I shut her 
down and plugged in a thumb drive with either Vinux 5.1 or Ubuntu 16.04 
on it.

Sadly although I could indeed boot in to different Linux distros, arch, 
at least three flavors of Ubuntu 18.04 and 16.04, gnome or mate version 
of these as well as the standard Unity desktop release; and something 
else that slips my mind now, I could never see the internal harddrive; 
not with gparted, gdisk, fdisk the installers for the Ubuntu versions, 
etc. I asked on HP support forum butg only got suggestions to update my 
bios and drivers which I did.

Please, what can I do so that a live Linux system can see the laptop's SSD.

The laptop is an HP envy X360 convertible, made and sold in late 2018. 
It has both a touch screen and keyboard. The hardware is all good medium 
scale stuff, and all and all it's by far the best machine I've ever owned.

To sum up it lets me start via Linux on a  USB pendrive, but won't 
expose the internal SSD so that I can install Linux ordo anything from 
Linux, i.e. run a malware scan, resize partitions, etc.

I have updated the bios and any drivers available on the HP website, but 
my problem persists.

What to do? I want to leave win10  and set up a dual boot system, but 
could not wipe windows from the drive as things stand with out removing 
it from the laptop and I want to keep windows for the rare jobs that 
don't have fully accessible ways to do them yet in Linux.

Any suggestions would be more than well received here. I got to get back 
to playing with the Penguins.

Regards,

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B.H.


Live free or die!, ... (windows is killing me)