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I read an old thread in the Forum on this topic, but my situation seems to be sufficiently different to start again.

I have bought a Western Digital “WD Blue” solid state drive 500 GB with SATA connections. As it came, it was already partitioned for Windows, with a NTFS C: partition. Trying to install Windows directly onto it failed, but that is not my intended use. I want it as a Linux backup drive. Windows used the drive’s C: partition for its swap file. Before I can format it for Linux, I need to get rid of that swap partition.

I tried to format it from Linux, but no Linux distro, including Knoppix 9 and Gparted, sees it AT ALL. The SATA table knows that something is there, but cannot load it.

Have I missed something?

Does it appear in the output of lsblk when run as root ?

No, it doesn't.

Can you try it in another machine? Could be the drive is just bad or the controller is bad.

The problem wiith that is connections. I have no other machine that has accessible SATA connectors.

laidlaws wrote:Trying to install Windows directly onto it failed, but that is not my intended use.

Well, from what I understood, windows can't use the drive for installation, neither can linux. Seems to be more an issue with the drive/controller or your mainboard.

Can you please attach journal logs after a fresh boot with the drive attached? As root

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journalctl -ab > /tmp/journal.log

and later attach /tmp/journal.log here.


On a related note, here's a similar report: https://superuser.com/questions/1461981 ... nux-system
Is this SSD directly connected to your mainboard, or in some external enclosure ? Also, what mainboard do you use?

Sorry I haven't been back sooner. I will start doing those things after sunup here.