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

["Glenn K0LNY" <glennervin cableone net>]

Hi,
In Ubuntu, in the GUI, have you gone into system and hardware?
Just wondering if there is something in there you could check.
Glenn
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "B. Henry via orca-list" <orca-list gnome org>
To: "orca" <Orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2020 4:30 PM
Subject: [orca-list] Linux does not see the internal SSD on my laptop/what 
to do...


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,

--

B.H.


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



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