How can I find my second ssd disk?

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I have two seperate ssd disks on my laptop, I installed Windows 10 for gaming and some specific softwares on the first one that was formatted as NTFS and then Manjaro (KDE) on the second one, and I have one efi partition for each os on each disk.

I tried “sudo fdisk -l”, “df -h” but there was only one disk displayed, on which I’ve installed Manjaro. I also tried KDE partition manager but it could not display the disk with Windows 10 installed. I am very new to Linux, how can I find the disk and browser files on it?

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What’s up, @Ventus!! Welcome to the Manjaro Community!!

You can try

lsblk

You can also try

sudo update-grub

and you should start seeing Windows as a boot option when you boot to the Manjaro drive.

But fdisk should have spotted it too, I believe. And good idea putting Windows on a separate drive. Then it won’t hurt your Manjaro when it updates…Windows is mean like that.

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Hi @arkansawdave74 , thank you for your suggestion.

My laptop is UEFI + GPT, Windows 10 had been pre-installed on the first disk and then I installed Manjaro on the second disk.

I tried lsblk, and it did not show the disk with Windows installed, either :cry: and I also tried sudo update-grub , it didn’t work for me, I didn’t see Windows as a boot option…

Would the position of /boot/efi be the reason since I put it on the second disk with Manjaro installed instead of the first Windows disk?

Due to personal reason, I wish to browser and use some files one the first disk by both os, maybe I should try portable hard drive…

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@Ventus, can you please share the output of

inxi -Fxxxz

That will show us your hardware info, including your drives and partitions.

And no, I don’t think an efi partition will work on a different disk. I’ve dual booted from 2 disks before and each disk had it’s own fat32 efi partition. I had different Linuxes on 2 separate drives though…no Windows.

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Hi @arkansawdave74

Here is the output of inxi -Fxxxz:

RAID: Hardware-1: Intel Device driver: ahci v: 3.0 port: 5060 bus-ID: 00:17.0 chip-ID: 8086.06d7 rev: class-ID: 0104

Drives: Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 97.67 GiB (20.5%) ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: SK Hynix model: BC711 NVMe 512GB size: 476.94 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 rotation: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 41002131 temp: 39.9 C scheme: GPT

Partition: ID-1: / size: 468.13 GiB used: 97.67 GiB (20.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 ID-2: /boot/efi size: 252 MiB used: 285 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1

Swap: Alert: No swap data was found.

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Go into your bios (UEFI Settings) and make sure both disks are enabled. You should also have a selection for which drive to boot to 1st (or with priority) that will let you boot either drive. It looks like you have the Windows drive disabled in there to me.

That wasn’t your whole inxi btw. When you ask for help you should always share your inxi to help us help you. I want to tell you how to boot to your boot menu, but I can’t because you didn’t share your whole inxi so I don’t know what kind of computer you have.

EDIT: The “z” in

inxi -Fxxxz

hides the identifiable information so always be sure to include the “z” when sharing your inxi online.

Also, to include your RAM info you can use

sudo inxi -Fmxxxz

To learn more about the great program inxi (one of my favorite programs) you can run

man inxi

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@arkansawdave74

I am very sorry that I didn’t share my whole inxi to you, I wrongly thought some of them are unnecessary…I apologize.

I am sure that both drives are enabled in my UEFI Settings, and I used to press F12 for boot menu at startup, and there are two optioins one is Manjaro and the other one is Windows boot manager.

here is the whole output of inxi:
System: Kernel: 5.10.41-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.21.5 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux

Machine: Type: Laptop System: Alienware product: Alienware m15 R4 v: 1.3.1 serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter> Mobo: Alienware model: Alienware m15 R4 v: A00 serial: <filter> UEFI: Alienware v: 1.3.1 date: 03/10/2021

Battery: ID-1: BAT1 charge: 86.0 Wh (100.0%) condition: 86.0/86.0 Wh (100.0%) volts: 13.1 min: 11.4 model: COMPAL PABAS0241231 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Full

CPU: Info: 8-Core model: Intel Core i7-10870H bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Comet Lake rev: 2 cache: L2: 16 MiB flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 70421 Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/5000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 801 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 9: 800 10: 801 11: 800 12: 800 13: 800 14: 800 15: 799 16: 800

Graphics: Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:9bc4 class-ID: 0380 Device-2: NVIDIA GA104M [GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile 16GB] vendor: Dell driver: nvidia v: 465.31 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:24dc class-ID: 0300 Device-3: Realtek Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-7:3 chip-ID: 0bda:5538 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter> Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: loaded: nvidia resolution: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 143 OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 465.31 direct render: Yes

Audio: Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:06c8 class-ID: 0403 Device-2: NVIDIA driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228b class-ID: 0403 Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.41-1-MANJARO running: yes Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.28 running: no

Network: Device-1: Intel vendor: Dell driver: igc v: kernel port: 4000 bus-ID: 3d:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:3101 class-ID: 0200 IF: enp61s0 state: down mac: <filter> Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 vendor: Rivet Networks driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: 4000 bus-ID: 3e:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2723 class-ID: 0280 IF: wlp62s0 state: up mac: <filter>

Bluetooth: Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-14:5 chip-ID: 8087:0029 class-ID: e001 Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: see --recommends

RAID: Hardware-1: Intel Device driver: ahci v: 3.0 port: 5060 bus-ID: 00:17.0 chip-ID: 8086.06d7 rev: class-ID: 0104

Drives: Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 97.67 GiB (20.5%) ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: SK Hynix model: BC711 NVMe 512GB size: 476.94 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 rotation: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 41002131 temp: 39.9 C scheme: GPT

Partition: ID-1: / size: 468.13 GiB used: 97.67 GiB (20.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 ID-2: /boot/efi size: 252 MiB used: 285 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1

Swap: Alert: No swap data was found.

Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 69.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 54 C Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A

Info: Processes: 397 Uptime: 1m wakeups: 2 Memory: 31.13 GiB used: 2.12 GiB (6.8%) Init: systemd v: 247 Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 alt: 10 Packages: pacman: 1405 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 running-in: yakuake inxi: 3.3.04

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It’s fine. You’re new. I’m just sharing how it works best.

If you can still boot to Windows from the boot menu, I’d leave it like that. LOL. But I don’t know everything. If there is a better way, someone who knows more than me will be along shortly, and they won’t have to ask for your inxi. LOL. I hope you enjoy your new system and this community. If you do, I’ll be seeing you around. Nice laptop, btw!!

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Thank you very much for your kindness!

I found my problem might be relevant with Windows fast boot, but it is ok even thought I cannot detect that drive under Manjaro, I can still use portable drive to access files under two os.

I am now learning to use Manjaro and hope one day I can help other people like you with knowledges! :wink:

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Windows fastboot will cause you to not be able to ACCESS the Windows file system, but you should still be able to SEE the drive and the Windows partition. Windows hibernate will cause the same issues too. You should disable both of those in the Windows settings because they are both Windows 10 defaults, but I don’t think it will help your current problem. It’s been a long time since I dual booted with Windows so I can’t remember how. You’ll have to look it up because I think Windows hides both of those settings.

You already found a workaround! Stick with it and you will be good at Linux. You have a good spirit. I’m glad you’re here!!

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