Can't install Manjaro KDE on my external HDD

[mr.X]

I have laptop with installed Windows. I want to install Manjaro KDE on my external HDD,but installer don’t see it. Yeah, RAID on is enable,but I don’t want to change it to AHCI.Any help I will apreciate

[Mirdarthos]

Hi @mr.X, and welcome!

AFAIK the Calamares installer hides externally-attached storage for installation. So you’ll have to install it manually, if I’m correct. See:

[HowTo] Install Manjaro on USB drive (with and without VirtualBox)

Difficulty: ★★☆☆☆ This tutorial is the result of an experiment trying to install Manjaro Linux on a USB Drive using graphical tools as much as possible (in a relatively hassle-free way) and so as to create a portable installation which one can carry in one’s pocket. (Respected Forum members, this tutorial was done using Manjaro KDE in UEFI mode, please feel free to update this if anyone succeeds to follow this and install in any other case.)

Method 1: Using VirtualBox

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[root tip] [How To] Do a manual Manjaro installation

Difficulty: ★★★☆☆ Install Manjaro using CLI only This is how you install Manjaro using the terminal. On bare-metal use CtrlAltF4 On VirtualBox use RightCtrlF4 This guide is intended as a reference for the basic installation abstracted by Calamares and for the subsequent installation of the packages which makes of the live ISO. The guide can be applied as a virtual machine or hardware as of your choice. Overview VirtualBox or Hardware Installation prerquisites Partitioning Formatting M…

Between those two you should be able to manage.

[mr.X]

thank you.I’ll try

[Aragorn]

@mr.X

Yeah, RAID on is enable,but I don’t want to change it to AHCI

Then I’m afraid no one will be able to help you. It must be set to AHCI.