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and similarly for gdisk. Here, no Windows 10 partition is displayed. For clarity, I'm running Linux Mint 19.3 from a USB flash drive with secure boot disabled; the laptop that I'm using is a Dell Vostro 5590. I thought maybe I was missing some sort of program that I had to install but I've even booted GParted live from a USB drive and the Windows partition is still not there.
What I'd like to do is install a Linux distribution on this computer, but now it doesn't seem possible. Is there something that I'm missing?
Sorry, allow me to clarify further. Drive /dev/sda is the 128G USB drive where I booted Linux Mint from (I have the actual OS installed to that USB instead of having a live USB preinstall because I wanted a portable OS for my other projects).
I didn't know what those loop drives where but running lsblk revealed that they are for the "snap" package:
Windows is bootable on this machine but I am not sure if it's encrypted. I don't recall having to do anything special during the installation process but maybe it did something during the installation process that I wasn't aware of. I had it installed and booted yesterday and it seemed to work just fine.
Maybe you have Win on a dynmaic disk ?. Never used it, wouldn't know how it displays.
I'm surprised Mint has snapd - Clem has been pretty vociferous about that.
@teckk, the disk was encrypted using BitLocker and I turned it off but still no dice.
@syg00, according to my Disk Management the disk types are basic. I had to download snapd at one point for a program that it had for one of my projects and I saw that it was available on Linux Mint. I didn't realize that Clem felt that way about it though.
@yancek, I think I have it off but I'm not sure. I tried shutting it down before but the partitions (using fdisk for example) still didn't show up on Linux Mint. I followed this link: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...hat-is-running
Re snapd - it's your machine to do with whatever you want. So many people try to get rid of it from Ubuntu ...
I don't understand why the device node is not being created regardless of fast start or bitlocker. Time to scour the logs methinks - early in the boot cycle I'd imagine.
@syg00, turns out that RAID was enabled in the BIOS settings. I switched it to AHCI and now I can see the Windows partitions:
Code:
$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for oem:
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 238.5 GiB, 256060514304 bytes, 500118192 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 7848870E-2312-4110-9A5E-2FC71E3A0A87
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 1333247 1331200 650M EFI System
/dev/nvme0n1p2 1333248 1595391 262144 128M Microsoft reserved
/dev/nvme0n1p3 1595392 277970943 276375552 131.8G Microsoft basic data
/dev/nvme0n1p4 465977344 468004863 2027520 990M Windows recovery environment
/dev/nvme0n1p5 468004864 497696767 29691904 14.2G Windows recovery environment
/dev/nvme0n1p6 497698816 500084735 2385920 1.1G Windows recovery environment
Disk /dev/sda: 114.6 GiB, 123060879360 bytes, 240353280 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 9FFDEAC6-7A41-4708-82C2-10C61D5A52E1
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 45041664 240351231 195309568 93.1G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda2 13791232 45041663 31250432 14.9G Linux swap
/dev/sda3 11790336 13791231 2000896 977M EFI System
Partition table entries are not in disk order.
FYI, I did end up removing snapd and it's applications because it was taking up some space and I didn't really need it anymore, but that's beside the point.
Thanks syg00!
I've never used RAID before but it seems to offer some sort of performance boost. I think there is a thing called ZRAID as well but I've never looked into it. I wonder if I should try it on my next Linux distro.
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Can't find Windows 10 partition
