On 09/02/2021 00:43, Lou Poppler wrote:
On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 22:59 +0000, Bernard McNeill wrote:
But, as I think I mentioned earlier, I am very reluctant indeed to mess
around with Windows itself.
I have backed up the user data, but I am not at all sure how to
re-install Windows itself. If the machine failed I suspect I would take
it to a specialist with a copy of the user data.
I suggest at this point you should try out one of the debian "live" images.
These can be copied to a USB stick (via win32diskimager or others) just like you
copied the installer to USB. Then, you boot into the live image and it runs
completely from the USB stick -- you have a mostly complete linux system you can
experiment with, without permanently writing it onto any other disks, and
without the live system needing to write to any other disks.
I would suggest the current stable "gnome" live system, which is familiar to
Windows users -- and I also suggest the so-called "non-free" version (which just
means it includes various firmware files for wifi or fancy graphics adapters,
etc.)
Download here:
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/images-including-firmware/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-10.8.0-amd64-gnome+nonfree.iso
I am going to try your suggestion.
For the record, I did fully reinstall Debian with Fastboot (both Windows
and BIOS) disabled. I got the same issues as before, but can confirm
(because I was looking for it) that the installer/partitioner does not
seem to see the SSD.
It could see both the install USB flash drive and the external USB HDD.
Best regards
