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Old 02-19-2024, 06:43 AM   #1
Pad0010
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Linux Mint live can't see my HDD, but Bohdi, Lite, LXLE and Lubuntu do


Greetings all,
I really prefer Linux Mint to many of the distros I have listed above.
However, I have ended up installing Lite because uniquely, the Mint Live distro only offers me a chance to install on the live USB source, because it can't see my hard disk. All the others I have been able to install from their live distros.
I am using an 64 bit HP Laptop 15-db0xxx with 1TB of HDD with 500G reserved for Windows 10 and 8G of RAM
I would prefer to use MINT because I have it installed successfully on a couple of other machines. But this has stumped me.
All these other live distros can see the hard disk - I anyone can tell me what is the problem with my Mint distro, and how I might correct it, I would be thankful.
Cheers
Pad0010

Below is the HDPARM report, if that helps.

sudo hdparm -i /dev/sda

/dev/sda:

Model=ST1000LM035-1RK172, FwRev=RTM2, SerialNo=WL1XQ7ZT
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=0
BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=unknown, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=1953525168
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
AdvancedPM=yes: unknown setting WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: Reserved: ATA/ATAPI-5,6,7

Last edited by Pad0010; 02-19-2024 at 06:51 AM. Reason: Info re HDD attached
 
Old 02-19-2024, 12:25 PM   #2
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What is the remaining 500GB? Is it unallocated space? Is it another partition? Formatted with which filesystem?
Do you see any messages during the attempt to install Mint? If you open a terminal in the 'live' Mint does sudo parted -l give you any output? Is windows 10 EFI? Did you boot Mint in EFI mode?
 
  


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