I bought a new machine - the HP Spectre x360. It comes with a Windows 11 installation and Intel’s “Optane” feature and a TB SSD.
I want to install Manjaro in a dual-boot scenario. In Windows, I shrunk the Windows partitions to leave open free space that I want to use for Manjaro.
I downloaded the Manjaro Live USB, but when I boot into it and open the installer, I see the 1TB disk as “empty” and do not see the 3 existing partitions on it. My only option is to utilize the entire disk. What am I missing?
Some things I have done already:
Disabled Windows’ Fast Boot
Disabled Secure Boot from BIOS
Made sure Windows is not encrypted (disabled Bitlocker)
Ensured that both Window and the LiveUSB boot in UEFI mode.
I retract the question. I ended up disabling Octane in BIOS (it didn’t save the first time), and that made windows unbootable entirely. I just ended up taking the whole disk for Linux.
For anyone who visits this in the future, I don’t know why disabling octane would make the windows boot manager unavailable, perhaps the boot paths(?) were stored in octane and it forgot those were.
Also @winnie, to answer your question - Windows saw 3 partitions on a single disk. The BIOS did not have a RAID feature as far as I could tell. Thanks though