My laptop recently has decided to stop booting windows. I have tried countless ways to fix it, until I decided to give up and switch to Linux, and I chose Manjaro KDE. I love the look of it, so I tried to install it from my USB. After making sure all settings were correct(Erase entire drive, made sure the drive was correct) it throws an error about the partition? I can’t tell exactly what the error is trying to do, but I really want to install this. If anyone can help, thanks!
The error:
The Installer failed to create partition on disk [my drives name]
Create new partition(300.0MB, fat32) on /dev/sda
Job: Create new partition on ‘/dev/sda’
Command: mkfs.fat -F32 -I -v /dev/sda1
Well that’s a shame, it would have helped.
Considering even the previously installed Windows fails to boot, and the error when partitioning for Manjaro, it might be a drive issue.
What does return from the liveUSB?
inxi -D
lsblk -af
I mean the error actually doesn’t show anything but what I listed, which is strange because I found online that some people do have error codes below. Anyway, I ran the commands and it returned this:
inxi -D ✔
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 581.68 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD5000LPCX-24C6HT0
size: 465.76 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB model: USB FLASH DRIVE size: 115.92 GiB
~ lsblk -af ✔
NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
loop0 squash 4.0 0 100% /run/miso/sfs/livefs
loop1 squash 4.0 0 100% /run/miso/sfs/mhwdfs
loop2 squash 4.0 0 100% /run/miso/sfs/desktopfs
loop3 squash 4.0 0 100% /run/miso/sfs/rootfs
loop4
loop5
loop6
loop7
sda
├─sda2
│
├─sda3
│
├─sda4
│ ntfs LENOVO F4ECEE71ECEE2E14
├─sda5
│ ntfs WINRE_DRV B45AE03E5ADFFB56
├─sda6
│ ntfs LENOVO_PART 68AAE1D5AAE19FB4
└─sda7
vfat FAT32 LRS_ESP 46E3-1775
sdb iso966 Jolie MANJARO_KDE_2121
│ 2022-01-03-16-02-54-00 0 100% /run/miso/bootmnt
├─sdb1
│ iso966 Jolie MANJARO_KDE_2121
│ 2022-01-03-16-02-54-00
└─sdb2
vfat FAT12 MISO_EFI 8078-6038
sr0
A partitioning error on a drive which counts 4 partitions with known filesystems…
Would it use a MBR partition table?
LANG=C sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
(Password from liveUSB is manjaro
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