[SOLVED] Re: live-boot doesn't detect internal SSD

[Felmon Davis <moelmoel2714@gmail.com>]

top-posting - sorry but quick: just by fortune found the solution an 
hour after posting!
<https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2429951&p=13900969#post13900969>

you boot into BIOS, no AHCI, but then you hit "Control S" and it 
magically appears!

reboot, and there's the SSD!

I sat on this for hours. wrong search string.

fjd


On Fri, 20 Nov 2020, Felmon Davis wrote:

> greets!
>
> been looking around for a solution without avail. Acer Swift 3 SF313-52.
>
> tried X-buntu, MX-Linux and another distro. gparted, fdisk and their 
> partition managers only show the usb so no install is possible.
>
> -------
>
> the BIOS and controls in Windows 10 are pretty stripped down.
>
> I tried to make progress by turning off secure boot but all that id was to 
> grey out the switches in BIOS which allow UEFI to select partitions and 
> drives.
>
> in Windows Fast-Boot is off, Norton disabled, Windows Defender toothless.
>
> the Swift 3 has TPM; I cleared that, also tried disabling it.
>
> there is talk of getting AHCI to run but playing with BCEDIT to disable 
> SAFEBOOT doesn't generate an option in the BIOS to use AHCI.
>
> I would rather not go the route of wiping the SSD and installing stuff. I am 
> willing to allow Windows to be the boot-loader, I just want the freedom to 
> install other systems side-by-side.
>
> welcome advice.
>
> fjd

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Felmon Davis

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