I am using the 500 GB disk since it is the mini PC original disk.
Windows_10 was on the disk when I did run the Home Assistant installation procedure. I NEVER formatted this disk.
My BIOS pages do not show any SATA_legacy selection at all.
Please note that the disk ( and HA ) works well if connected to USB port using a SATA to USB adapter.
Thanks
This is normally something #changeable I.E MODE Light/Dark, AHCI/Legacy(Or what ever your bios-brand choose to call it)
Not wiping/formatting a Windows-disk, before installing Anything New, i.e Linux , is not a good idea. And USB is not the same interface as the build-in SATA ( Where you can choose ACHI/Legacy " )
Maybe you didn’t installed the Windows your self, and maybe you don’t know what the Disk/ 1 Partition is formatted with/how, so it could be an MBR, and not GPT ( Hint my question )
Thanks Boheme.
As you have already understood I am skilled on this kind of things.
BIOS allow selection between ACHI and RAID only.
Could you provide a step by step procedure to overcome my problem please ?
Thanks
Sorry i don’t have or see your BIOS, However …
Take the disk, and connect it to a windows machine via USB
Go to Computer-management / Disk-Management in windows and click on the Disk(i.e disk 1, or what it turns up as, Right-click under the name there, Choose Properties then Volumes ( Partition Style )
As You see this is my disk1, which i use for “storage”, they quite often ends as an MBR disk, so they can be used/accessed everywhere.
As you say your BIOS don’t have the “Legacy” Option fut this could be a reason for the UI not showing it( it might be an MBR"legacy-Not-UEFI" , ( Which doesn’t Support i.e SecureBoot )
I got " device not ready " also
right, no wonder it doesn’t show up in UEFI
or this is because it’s a Linux now( So windows can’t read it, but still it was an MBR )
You could delete all partitions
Delete each partition 1 by 1 , and the volume , until you see all of the disk is “Unallocated”
Then again Right-click the DISK-name, and choose “convert disk to GPT”
Put it back in your HA-Device, and make sure you see it as a BOOT-Device( in your UEFI-BIOS)
For you to be able to perform the installation-options from a usb device, your USB-Port should be above your DISK’s in the BOOT-Order, which you selects … in the boot-order somewhere …
( i can tell you, for most people your “typed-in” BIOS above is kind of “annoying” for people), take a pic with your phone … OR Google you BIOS, spec / Device v.
I promise you, it’s out there, in either clear-text/Pics and You-tubes
PS, as your USB is set above DISK in Boot-Order( as You have to ), make sure you remove it( I mean what ever media you have plugged in your usb-port ), before restating HA, after flashing the disk
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? did you install windows on the disk now ? ( sorry i dont understand the language )
Ahh ok, i guess it’s disk 3
Have you converted to GPT ?
right-click to the left, under the name of the disk, how does that popup look now ?
You have to “Initialize” the Disk ( after converting )
Same right-click the disk-name ( I think thats what the pic says “Not Initialized” )
seriously what are you doing, now you’ve post 2 pics, and NO commends, and no answers in regards what you have done.
Are you trying to piss me of ?
sorry but the forum does not allow me to send pics more than one… I must wait 5 minutes in between and was not at home.
At the end Disk Manager says that the “device is not ready”. Ican NOT perform other action on the HD. Thanks
And have you tried this ?
Hi Boheme, when I try to convert to GPT it says that " device is not ready ".
At the moment the HD in the windows desktop nor in the mini PC USB port. The next pic is what the mini PC says now when try to boot from the HD .
At he moment : if I connect the HD to the mini PC USB port I have the previous pic . It is very strange ! Could be that the mini PC has some lockup in the firmware or there is something that corrupt the HD . There is no way here to recover the HD .
windows disk manager does not allow me to perform any action on the HD.
So now you skipped my questions, i have no idea what you’ve beside it sounds/seems like you have moved the non-initialized disk to your HA-machine … WONT WORK
Either you put it back, very quick into windows and answer my questions, step by step
You don’t know what you are doing, and you just confusing me
First step IF you want to check the disk in your HA-machine is IN BIOS
( Does it show up as a BOOT device ? )
What your pic shows is that your Device is trying to boot from the Network-card, maybe because this is in top of the boor-order, or because there is no USB, Nor Disk BOOT devices available ( Most likely the case )
As your DISK was NOT Initialized it wont show up as a BOOT device
Ok , either i have to believe you, without getting ANY answers to my questions, You know a ? mark means, answer this question
DID You or did you not, right-click(IM not a mind reader !) under the name and tried to click INITIALIZE DISK ?
YES: I did what you told me: I did connecte the HD to the windows desktop PC using a SATA to USB adaper , I did launch the Disk Manager , I did right click on the HD ( disk 3 ), I did press OK on the initialize disk and I got the " device not ready " message very soon .