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 ?
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 ?
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
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
