I have a Dell Inspiron laptop with a 500GB SSD (no other drives). Windows 10 is installed, and I have shrunk the Windows partition to leave 450 GB unallocated. In BIOS the SATA disk is detected, UEFI is on, Secure Boot is off, and RAID is disabled (SATA mode on).
When I boot from an Ubuntu 22.04 USB stick, the SSD is not detected.
Does anyone have a suggestion please?
I have included the output from lsblk -a
and from fdisk -l
.
Results of lsblk -a
:
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0 7:0 0 2.1G 1 loop /rofs
loop1 7:1 0 62M 1 loop /snap/core20/1587
loop2 7:2 0 4K 1 loop /snap/bare/5
loop3 7:3 0 163.3M 1 loop /snap/firefox/1635
loop4 7:4 0 400.8M 1 loop /snap/gnome-3-38-2004/112
loop5 7:5 0 91.7M 1 loop /snap/gtk-common-themes/1535
loop6 7:6 0 45.9M 1 loop /snap/snap-store/582
loop7 7:7 0 284K 1 loop /snap/snapd-desktop-integration/14
loop8 7:8 0 47M 1 loop /snap/snapd/16292
loop9 7:9 0 0B 0 loop
sda 8:0 1 7.6G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 1 3.6G 0 part /cdrom
├─sda2 8:2 1 4.1M 0 part
├─sda3 8:3 1 300K 0 part
└─sda4 8:4 1 4G 0 part /var/crash/var/log
Results of fdisk -l
:
Disk /dev/loop0: 2.13 GiB, 2288189440 bytes, 4469120 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/loop1: 61.96 MiB, 64970752 bytes, 126896 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/loop2: 4 KiB, 4096 bytes, 8 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/loop3: 163.29 MiB, 171225088 bytes, 334424 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/loop4: 400.8 MiB, 420265984 bytes, 820832 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/loop5: 91.69 MiB, 96141312 bytes, 187776 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/loop6: 45.86 MiB, 48091136 bytes, 93928 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/loop7: 284 KiB, 290816 bytes, 568 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/sda: 7.61 GiB, 8166703104 bytes, 15950592 sectors
Disk model: USB DISK
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 9240A165-D190-4AB6-8A10-46DC207B42EE
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 64 7465119 7465056 3.6G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda2 7465120 7473615 8496 4.1M EFI System
/dev/sda3 7473616 7474215 600 300K Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda4 7475200 15950528 8475329 4G Linux filesystem
Disk /dev/loop8: 46.96 MiB, 49242112 bytes, 96176 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes