Fedora 43 Installer Not Showing All Disks

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When I run the Fedora installer from the live desktop image, it’s only showing some of my disks. Specifically, my Windows drive shows up, but my Ubuntu drive doesn’t.

After searching a little about the issue, I saw it’s often because of incorrect disk settings in BIOS/UEFI. Both of my internal drives are M.2 NVME drives and I’ve confirmed they aren’t in RAID mode. I’m not sure if the SATA mode is relevant, but it was already in AHCI mode.

Both drives are accessible through the GNOME file manager on the live image, so I don’t think it’s a hardware or driver issue.

I made room on my Windows drive for a new partition and installed it there for now, but the other drive is larger and faster so I would really prefer to have it there. I suppose I could dd my install over, but it’s just really weird that I can’t install it normally. Any suggestions?

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What’s the lsblk -f output when booted from the Live image?

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NAME        FSTYPE  FSVER            LABEL             UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
loop0       erofs                                      742b82e5-946a-41fc-8d1d-fa5acc9610f4       0   100% /run/install/sources/mount-0000-live_os_image
                                                                                                           /run/rootfsbase
sda         iso9660 Joliet Extension Fedora-WS-Live-43 2025-10-23-04-15-58-00                              
├─sda1      iso9660 Joliet Extension Fedora-WS-Live-43 2025-10-23-04-15-58-00                     0   100% /run/initramfs/live
└─sda2      vfat    FAT16            BOOT              AD6C-5955                                           
zram0       swap    1                zram0             a2316f3e-0a78-4ced-b428-80f427746361                [SWAP]
nvme0n1                                                                                                    
├─nvme0n1p1 vfat    FAT32                              F73C-4450                                           
├─nvme0n1p2 iso9660 Joliet Extension GParted-live      2025-12-05-13-13-50-00                              
└─nvme0n1p3 ext4    1.0                                899f653a-ceea-4964-942b-8106e9a41947                
nvme1n1                                                                                                    
├─nvme1n1p1                                                                                                
├─nvme1n1p2 ntfs                                       66EEA429EEA3F00B                                    
├─nvme1n1p3 vfat    FAT32                              2ECD-8BF6                                           
├─nvme1n1p4 ntfs                                       EA62864F62862085                                    
└─nvme1n1p5 ext4    1.0                                021c0e7d-7be8-4534-844e-c84993dd18eb  414.6G     4% /run/media/liveuser/021c0e7d-7be8-4534-844e-c84993dd18eb
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After deleting the GParted-live partition on my main drive the installer detected it as expected. I guess the installer blacklists any drive with an ISO partition as an easy way to avoid trying to overwrite the live USB.