Bazzite installer doesn't show my NVMe drive
Hi,
I've recently bought a bigger NVMe to dual boot with windows, I don't have the luxury to have a second SSD at the moment so I'm trying to dual boot in the same drive.
I cloned my existing copy of windows to the new SSD and that's all working fine, but when I try to install bazzite, my drive doesn't even show in the list 😢
Fast boot isn't turned on and I've already checked my bios and it is set to AHCI
My mobo is a MSI B350 gaming plus with the latest firmware and the m.2 in question is a MSI Spatium M482.
I must be missing something obvious, can anyone give me some pointers, please ?
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I tried both with and without ventoy
I think I managed to sus it though. I think it's an issue with my GPT partition from when I cloned my old SSD.
I opened the terminal in the installer and when I tried to mount the NVMe it would return a warning saying it was read only..I suspected windows at first, but then I booted my Pop_OS installer and I noticed that their installer was picking my drive and it's partitions but gparted wasn't.
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is this using ventoy?
the m.2 you are currently trying to use is plugged into the motherboard directly, correct? I find there are issues with trying to boot from m.2s if they are attached via other methods.
Solution
I tried both with and without ventoy
I think I managed to sus it though. I think it's an issue with my GPT partition from when I cloned my old SSD.
I opened the terminal in the installer and when I tried to mount the NVMe it would return a warning saying it was read only..I suspected windows at first, but then I booted my Pop_OS installer and I noticed that their installer was picking my drive and it's partitions but gparted wasn't.
I then reformatted the drive again and remade the GPT partition and voila, the NVMe is showing now.
Worth noting that I also tested it with an external enclosure and it was giving the same issue, so to answer the question, yes it was plugged into my motherboard directly, but I had tried both ways just to be sure.
I went the lazy way originally, and cloned the old NVMe using diskgenius and I think it didn't do a good job. I've left clonezilla running overnight and will test it again later today, but I'm pretty confident it'll work now
Yup!! All good now 🙂 thanks both !
