#1 2016-02-15 23:26:03

mike5061

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windows 10 not seeing c drive drive with GParted

Setup

Asus ROG 128GB SSD AND 1TB SATA
INTEL Skylake 6 gen I7
Win 10 (home)

I can boot to live usb  and commence install but i cannot see the windows c drive to partition and I may not be able to put grub to MBR?

Any guidence would be appreciated.

Thanks Mike

lowrider

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Re: windows 10 not seeing c drive drive with GParted

What is a c drive and what is windows 10?  8o

Sorry, i couldn'd resist. Sure there are others here in this helpful forum who knows what that means 

tknomanzr

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Re: windows 10 not seeing c drive drive with GParted

The BunsenLabs Live Iso does not support UEFI/GPT partitions currently, so I am guessing that is part of your problem.

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Horizon_Brave

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Re: windows 10 not seeing c drive drive with GParted

Just a guess, but it could be because your mobo is expecting to see a GUID type partitioning scheme. Aka, it's looking for an efi/uefi and not the older mbr setup, this isn't supported as I know by debian, so... there may be an issue here.

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Re: windows 10 not seeing c drive drive with GParted

The BunsenLabs Live Iso does not support UEFI/GPT partitions currently, so I am guessing that is part of your problem.

Debian Live does not support it (hence no BL support). To install Debian, you'll have to use the netinstall ("unofficial") ISO...

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unoff … so.torrent

Then use @johnraff's netinstall script to install the BunsenLabs desktop. HowTo...
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 339#p18339

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Re: windows 10 not seeing c drive drive with GParted

I can boot to live usb  and commence install but i cannot see the windows c drive to partition and I may not be able to put grub to MBR?

The Windows partition will not be identified as "c", it will just be an ntfs (?) formatted normal partition.

If your Windows system is installed in UEFI mode then having the GRUB bootloader on the MBR of your disk will not interfere with Windows as that part of the disk is not used in UEFI booting.

It should then be possible to switch between Windows and a non-UEFI BunsenLabs system by toggling "CSM" or "Legacy" mode from your firmware ("BIOS") options.

The BunsenLabs live ISO installer does support GPT disks but only if a BIOS boot partition is created first (it will throw up an error when attempting to install GRUB otherwise).

To do this, install and start gdisk from the live session:

sudo gdisk /dev/sda

Use "n" to create a new partition, accept the default start and end sectors (these should be sector 34 & sector 2047 respectively if your disk is optimally aligned) and make it type "ef02" then use "w" to write the changes to disk.

This should allow the installer to place the non-UEFI GRUB bootloader on the disk and let you toggle CSM to switch between Windows & BL.

You can then attempt to convert your system to UEFI if desired (see my signature for details).

Alternatively, use a netinstall to get a UEFI system, as indicated above.

As you have Skylake hardware, you will need a newer kernel version, Intel video driver, mesa support and non-free firmware for full performance. Again, see the links in my signature for more on this.

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mike5061

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Re: windows 10 not seeing c drive drive with GParted

user@debian:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: ED688F96-3376-4065-B278-919838A1EBDB

Device     Start        End    Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sda1   2048 1953523711 1953521664 931.5G Microsoft basic data

Disk /dev/sdb: 1.9 GiB, 2019557376 bytes, 3944448 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x76db1c37

Device     Boot Start     End Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1  *       64 1689599 1689536  825M 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/loop0: 685.8 MiB, 719081472 bytes, 1404456 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
user@debian:~$

still struggling with ssd disk not being seen with BL OR DEB jESSIE OR DEB NETINSTALL
Above is the output of fdisk
/dev/sda/ is my sata drive
/dev/sdb/ is flash drive with BL
/dev/sdb1 is my boot partition which I think is the ssd drive aka c drive
it may be possible to shrink the windows partition and leave room on the ssd for BL
what i dont know is will it find MBR FOR GRUB

was a crunchbang user for a few years and it was a great OS hence I want BL
and the community was helpful
win is for one program 10 mins a week otherwise it would be in the bin

Thanks for the help guys

Horizon_Brave

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Re: windows 10 not seeing c drive drive with GParted

user@debian:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: ED688F96-3376-4065-B278-919838A1EBDB

Device     Start        End    Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sda1   2048 1953523711 1953521664 931.5G Microsoft basic data

Disk /dev/sdb: 1.9 GiB, 2019557376 bytes, 3944448 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x76db1c37

Device     Boot Start     End Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1  *       64 1689599 1689536  825M 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/loop0: 685.8 MiB, 719081472 bytes, 1404456 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
user@debian:~$

still struggling with ssd disk not being seen with BL OR DEB jESSIE OR DEB NETINSTALL
Above is the output of fdisk
/dev/sda/ is my sata drive
/dev/sdb/ is flash drive with BL
/dev/sdb1 is my boot partition which I think is the ssd drive aka c drive
it may be possible to shrink the windows partition and leave room on the ssd for BL
what i dont know is will it find MBR FOR GRUB

was a crunchbang user for a few years and it was a great OS hence I want BL
and the community was helpful
win is for one program 10 mins a week otherwise it would be in the bin

Thanks for the help guys

Again the only thing that pokes out at me is the difference in disk partition tables. Did you do as HoaS suggested and switch your bios to CSM/Legacy mode?

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mike5061

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Re: windows 10 not seeing c drive drive with GParted

yep legecy mode is enabled in bios and also secure boot is turned off