I am trying to install 18.04 as a dual boot on a Dell Inspiron 3593 laptop running Windows 10 on a Basic(not Dynamic) partitioned 450GB HDD; have disabled fast startup and secure boot and created space on the disk. The LiveUSB boots up, but it cannot see the HDD. Help urgently needed and gratefully received!
EDIT: In reply to K7AAY ... Unfortunately (?) I have rendered the question obsolete. What I did was change the SATA mode between RAID and AHCI. This meant I could read the hdd from the LiveUSB, but the machine would not boot. Since I was only half-hearted about keeping the Windows system anyway, I wiped the disk and successfully installed 18.04.
Incidentally gparted was unable to reach the hdd, only my 8GB usb being listed.
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