Manjaro installer doesn't show my SSD

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The SSD I want to install Manjaro onto doesn’t show up in the installer, but shows up in Dolphin. How do I fix this? I have secure boot and fast boot disabled as well as AHCI enabled.

2

lsblk -f
will (of course) show all drives and partitions
… but the installer does not show all these same ?

3

lsblk -f and dolphin both show my SSD, but the installer only lists my HDD and a flash drive.

4

Is your SSD plugged by USB ?

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I have had same problem some years ago when trying to install to usb3 ssd while usb2 flash drive was shown.

6

Start the Manjaro USB stick and open the console.
Then run the above mentioned command.

7

No, my SSD is connected to my motherboard.

8

Running the command shows this. The drive labeled Windows is the drive not showing up in the installer.
AME 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
sda
├─sda1
│ vfat FAT32 EFI 67E3-17ED
└─sda2
ntfs GAME DRIVE B6EE0987EE09415B
sdb
├─sdb1
│ vfat FAT32 SYSTEM A826-4FA0
├─sdb2
│
├─sdb3
│ ntfs Windows 02F426B3F426A93D
├─sdb4
│ ntfs CCC22A4CC22A3B5A
└─sdb5
ntfs Windows RE tools
946027036026EC24
sdc
├─sdc1
│
└─sdc2
ntfs External drive D45C22245C2201BA
sdd iso966 Jolie MANJARO_KDE_2203
2023-02-13-06-33-59-00 0 100% /run/miso/bootmnt
├─sdd1
│ iso966 Jolie MANJARO_KDE_2203
│ 2023-02-13-06-33-59-00
└─sdd2
vfat FAT12 MISO_EFI 2FEC-B2C8
sr0

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Which drive is the one, you want to install to ?

If this drive in not shown, the the cable or the drive is defetive.

Does the Bios show the drive ?

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inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width
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The drive I want to install to is labeled Windows. Where would I see hard drives in the bios? I have an ASRock B450 Pro4

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In the the boot menu or the boot sequence.

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Just 2 things I can think of quickly:

  1. The drive you’re attempting to install on is an external drive, in which case it isn’t as easy as just installing it; or
  2. the drive might be internal and have a SATA connector, but it might still be connected VIA USB-bus, in which case installing it would be the same as the above process.

More information:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Install_Arch_Linux_on_a_removable_medium

Hope it helps!