Currently trying to install Fedora 43 KDE on a used SSD with Fedora Media Writer. I’ve tried to format the SSD few times and this error keeps popping out.
*Disk 0 is the target SSD, while disk 1 is Win 10 and disk 2 is live ISO.
I’ve installed Fedora 43 on February on my old laptop using rufus and this problem never popped up. Is there anything i do wrong? I followed learnlinux tv guide video.
From your live USB, can you format the SSD, using gparted or Gnome DIsks or the KDE equivelant? I see the SSD is currently NTFS, which means you’ve formatted it in WIndoze - and while this should not matter - perhaps making it fully blank, or ext4 from the Live USB will help with the visibility?
Other option I can think is, has Windoze locked the disk somehow, maybe with Bitlocker?
Please show us the current status of the drive. You can use Windows Disk Management or the Disks utility in the Fedora Installer USB, but posting the output (as pre-formatted text) from running sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda in a terminal so it can be found with a web search may help reach someone familiar with your issue.
Ummmm?
Fedora Media Writer does not install the software.
FMW is used to write an iso image to a usb device that then is booted to perform the installation.
I assume that is what you did then are having trouble booting fedora?
When you show the display from the windows disk manager in your first post it seems you are not using the tools within fedora to do the troubleshooting.
If there is nothing on the SSD that you need to keep for windows then you could boot the live media and use gdisk to create a new empty gpt partition table on the SSD before attempting the installation.
Alternatively, if you need to retain some of the windows data from the SSD then, as already mentioned, use windows to shrink the ntfs file system on D: and leave enough unallocated space on that drive for your installation. The image you posted shows that the entire disk is used by windows.
The fedora installer needs unused space to perform the installation, or it needs to use the entire disk. It also cannot work if the disk is encrypted with bitlocker as already noted.
So while i wait for answer i tried to install other OS on the SSD and it still failed. However, due to impatient i retried it again without checking which drive to chose. So i ended up installing on my Windows drive and completely wiped Win10 & all my files on it. The good news is there’s no important file that was lost as far as i know. The bad news is i wiped all my files on windows as far as i concerned .
So thank you guys for your help & advice, and let this be a lesson for me for the future.
I’ve run “practical sessions” where a group of users would install linux and then a niche scientific application. I found that user mistakes often meant the session was stalled dealing with the damage, so adopted a “buddy” system with one user entering commands and the buddy checking for typos before running the command. There are active Linux user groups that hold Linux Install Fests to help Windows users install Linux.
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