Gparted Live Usb Rufus

[Jarvarious Hunsaker]

Ibought a new HP notebook during the black friday deal and I am trying to install Solus on it. The laptop came with bitlocker encryption and secure boot enabled. I have turned off the bitlocker encryption, disabled secure boot in Bios. I have also created three partitions for Swap, Root and Home using AOMEI partition assistant. I have created a Solus Live USB using Rufus. I am able to boot Solus from the USB drive. However, when I try to install the OS on the hard disk, I am getting the below error message.

The Solus LiveUSB boots fine, but GParted also cannot see the drive. When I boot into Windows 10, I could see all the unallocated partitions that were created by AOMEI partition assistant and I have formatted them to FAT32, NTFS using Windows disk management utility. After doing this, I have used the Solus LiveUSB for booting and Solus is still not finding the hard drive.

pnbalaji1974

hunch: partitioning target drive you wanted solus installed on in W10 likely not a good strategy.

If gparted in live usb sees nothing it's formatting period (efi?gpts?fat? etc?.). I think.

What you never said was WHEN in the LIVE usb you got this message? Not during location, or make a password, or language...did Live Solus SEE your target drive? Then you selected it? Then this bubble came up with "Oh no! Your system has no usable disks available. There is nowhere to install Solus. Please ensure you have a minimum of 10GB available storage to complete a full Solus Installation?

Curious. May be relevant. Or not.

Only caveat is that the laptop came with Windows 10, but with bitlocker enabled. Usually MS provides Bitlocker only for Professional and Enterprise version of windows. I have disabled bitlocker and decrypted the SSD drive to install Solus. Now, I don't see an option to enable Bitlocker in Settings (could be bcoz it is Windows 10 home). I don't want to restore or reset my laptop to go back.

No. Depending on the OEM and Windows 10 version, Bitlocker is enabled or disabled on initial setup, but if enabled and then user-disabled after initial setup, it is disabled, period, and no longer an issue unless enabled later. I've seen a few Windows 10 Home computers come from OEM's with Bitlocker enabled, but @pnbalaji1974 disabled Bitlocker, so it almost certainly isn't the issue at this point. Nothing is impossible, but a Bitlocker issue is improbable.

I didn't reply to you personally so you can scrub your personal info above if you want. You didn't have to be that literal but all good.

I've installed plenty of times.

Whenever I hit NEXT I am taken to a 'select your target device' window where a few times my device wasn't seen at all and I'd have to reformat it.

But never the error message. Must be a new wrinkle in the new ISO. This sequence sounds normal and nothing you selected seems weird to me. It's good you tired both options.

The only thing I can think of is the way you created the partition (for Solus) in Windows is incorrect somehow.

I know you don't have the option of correcting this in Gparted right now.

I can't speak to bitlocker as I know nothing about it.

EbonJaeger The installer should still see the partitions even if they're NTFS. What's odd even GParted doesn't seem to detect the drive.

@pnbalaji1974 What model is your HP notebook? Is there a possibility there's still some "drive protection feature" enabled in BIOS?

EbonJaeger The root partition was formatted as FAT32. For Swap and home partition, Win offered me NTFS as the only choice. However, any modern linux distro these days should be able to recognize NTFS without any issues. Most of the Linux distros comes with ntfs-3g pre-installed.

If detected in Live Nautilus, then we get weirder but not there yet.

Can W10 encrypt or lock itself? Is that a W10 install option?

If lslbk in the Live terminal, can live solus recognize it as a drive, period?

I'm getting the feeling going into W10 diskpart, or its gui, deserves a second look.

If the HDD is hiding itself then it's doing it in command/on purpose and can be undone, methinks.

edit: not a pro in anything, jes spitballin

What's weird is you aren't even permitted to get to the part of the dialogue where you get to select your drive and it aborts. Something is formatted incorrectly? And he ntfs? I can't see many more variables unless this is an SSD/SSD hybrid on not a HDD?

You ever run another distro on this laptop yet?

It might be layered down (e.g. on the Dell Optiplex/Latitude computers I use, the setting is System Configuration > SATA Operation > Choices: Disabled/AHCI/RAID). Given the age of your computer (relatively new) it is probably AHCI (rather than IDE) by default, although quite a number of newer computers are set to RAID (Intel Rapid Restore Technology). I run all my computers with RAID and that has not created problems with Solus.

The reason I raised the issue is that we have at least a dozen threads in this forum where Solus install could not see the hard drive, and after SATA was set to AHCI, the problem resolved. As I remember all of those threads involved older computers, probably set to IDE.

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