Linux Mint live can't see my HDD, but Bohdi, Lite, LXLE and Lubuntu do
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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
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?
Thanks for replying, and apologies for taking so long to pick this back up. I couldn't find my way back to this forum for a bit, then forgot completely about this request.
I'm still unable to install Mint to the the hard drive. It says that it's happy to install it, but it only sees the USB drive that I am installing it from, and doesn't have enough room to fit it. It doesn't offer any other device to install on.
All the other live installs find the C drive and install to it. But not Mint.
Is this a problem with the way the live distro is written? I wonder because of all the other distros that just install to C: with no problem.
Might there be something I can do to help it see the HDD?
All the other live installs find the C drive and install to it. But not Mint.
What windows refers to as the C drive is an ntfs filesystem and Linux won't work on it unless you are using something like WSL or virtual software. If you want help, you can start by answering the questions I asked in my previous post, posting the output of the sudo parted -l command run from Mint or another Linux live usb. You need to ensure that windows is not hibernated and that you have free space on the drive. And just FYI, millions of users have installed Mint and use it daily so it isn't Mint. Which Mint? Did you download from the Mint site? Did you verify the download before writing it to the usb?
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