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Hey,

 

I just got Dell XPS as my work laptop and It came with horrible thing called windows.

I am trying to dualboot but when i make linux mint boot usb it does not see my Disk drive only Usb I bott it from.

Any Idea what may cause this issue? I suspect it may be something wrong in bios setup.

 

Thanks.

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10 minutes ago, PapeK said:

Hey,

 

I just got Dell XPS as my work laptop and It came with horrible thing called windows.

I am trying to dualboot but when i make linux mint boot usb it does not see my Disk drive only Usb I bott it from.

Any Idea what may cause this issue? I suspect it may be something wrong in bios setup.

 

Thanks.

Check to see if your Linux distro has AHCI support if you're doing an install with grub and all of that. Sometimes when disks are in AHCI mode, installs don't happen because the driver is missing since it isn't native. 

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How did you make the bootable USB drive? Does it work on other machines?

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Yes, I have used Rufus and it worked twice for me.

4 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

How did you make the bootable USB drive? Does it work on other machines?

 

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15 minutes ago, Hiitchy said:

Check to see if your Linux distro has AHCI support if you're doing an install with grub and all of that. Sometimes when disks are in AHCI mode, installs don't happen because the driver is missing since it isn't native. 

I have booted it now via legacy mode and it does not work either :(

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even fdisk utility does not see that drive

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UPDATE: It specificaly required AHCI 

LEGACY nor UEFI was working for me. Also disabled secure boot... maybe it has something to do with that too.

 

Thanks for help!

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