My Dual Booting, Grub and Live Linux CD can;t find my SSD

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As shown in the illustration. To fix my grub, I went into the bios and overwrote the previous parrot EFI file and placed it above windows boot. Now I have a grub menu. When I select Parrot, though, it takes me to busybox; I've tried a variety of things and methods, but nothing seems to work...when I try to make a fresh install, Linux only sees the HDD. not the solid-state drive When I boot into the live disc and run lsblk, lspci, fdisk, and other commands, only the HDD is recognized, therefore I'm trapped, unable to reinstall or log into my Linux. I'd be grateful for any assistance.

when i lsblk -o +fstype,label,uuid run i get the below image <br>

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at this point i don't know what to do again.

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JackE

You must follow this procedure EXACTLY!!!!

(1) Boot to regular Windows (not SAFE MODE yet) in RST mode

(2) Press WIN+R. Enter 'msconfig'

(3) Click boot tab and checkmark Safe Boot

(4) Shut down Windows normally

(5) Turn machine on and IMMEDIATELY tap F2 to enter BIOS menu

(6) Change SATA mode from iRST to AHCI. Press F10 to save settings and exit.

(7) Windows should boot to SAFE MODE and automatically install the AHCI drivers

(8) Press WIN+R. Enter 'msconfig'

(9) Click boot tab and UNcheckmark Safe Boot

(10) Shut down Windows Safe Boot normally

(11) Turn machine on and check that regular Windows boots OK in AHCI mode

(12) Press WIN+R. Enter 'diskmgmt.msc'

(13) Shrink Windows C : \ partition to create enough unallocated free space for the Linux installation

(14) Shut down Windows normally. Then reboot to make sure the shrunken Windows partition boots normally

You should now be ready to boot from the Linux installation USB stick using the F12 boot option.

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JackE

Please post a phone photo of the BIOS INFORMATION tab.

Lulztigre

Sorry for the late replt

here are my Bios information image.

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AnhEZ28

@Lulztigre try to navigate to the Main tab, press CTRL+S and change the SATA mode to AHCI.

Lulztigre

@AnhEZ28 i did that and i get this errors

Lulztigre

and this error

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Lulztigre

sorry i sent the image separately, my phone camera was putting them at about 24mb per size, had to compress them

AnhEZ28

@Lulztigre choose Advanced options, Troubleshoot, Advanced options, change startup settings, and restart. After that when the startup settings screen shows up, press 4 or F4 and wait for the Safe mode to boot up and finally restart the Windows.

Lulztigre

@AnhEZ28 for some reason my pc won't go past here after image 3, so i can't get to the advanced option menu

AnhEZ28

@Lulztigre hold the power button to force shutdown the laptop and try again

JackE

Sorry, if you want dual boot, you must first back up your personal files on both the WD SSD and the Toshiba HDD. Linux cannot yet be installed in Intel's RST mode and must be changed to AHCI mode..If you can still boot into Windows in RST mode, we can try to change the mode to AHCI without losing data on both drives.

So can you still boot into Windows in RST mode?

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Lulztigre

@AnhEZ28 i changed to RsT back to ahci when they troubleshooter was been stucked, however I'm in safe mode already

Lulztigre

@JackE i can boot into windows with RST mode just fine.

JackE

You must follow this procedure EXACTLY!!!!

(1) Boot to regular Windows (not SAFE MODE yet) in RST mode

(2) Press WIN+R. Enter 'msconfig'

(3) Click boot tab and checkmark Safe Boot

(4) Shut down Windows normally

(5) Turn machine on and IMMEDIATELY tap F2 to enter BIOS menu

(6) Change SATA mode from iRST to AHCI. Press F10 to save settings and exit.

(7) Windows should boot to SAFE MODE and automatically install the AHCI drivers

(8) Press WIN+R. Enter 'msconfig'

(9) Click boot tab and UNcheckmark Safe Boot

(10) Shut down Windows Safe Boot normally

(11) Turn machine on and check that regular Windows boots OK in AHCI mode

(12) Press WIN+R. Enter 'diskmgmt.msc'

(13) Shrink Windows C : \ partition to create enough unallocated free space for the Linux installation

(14) Shut down Windows normally. Then reboot to make sure the shrunken Windows partition boots normally

You should now be ready to boot from the Linux installation USB stick using the F12 boot option.

batmalin

Fast boot should be disabled as well.

JackE

>>>Fast boot should be disabled as well.>>>

Yes, that too. Good point.

Lulztigre

JackE said:

You must follow this procedure EXACTLY!!!!

(1) Boot to regular Windows (not SAFE MODE yet) in RST mode
(2) Press WIN+R. Enter 'msconfig'
(3) Click boot tab and checkmark Safe Boot
(4) Shut down Windows normally
(5) Turn machine on and IMMEDIATELY tap F2 to enter BIOS menu
(6) Change SATA mode from iRST to AHCI. Press F10 to save settings and exit.
(7) Windows should boot to SAFE MODE and automatically install the AHCI drivers
(8) Press WIN+R. Enter 'msconfig'
(9) Click boot tab and UNcheckmark Safe Boot
(10) Shut down Windows Safe Boot normally
(11) Turn machine on and check that regular Windows boots OK in AHCI mode
(12) Press WIN+R. Enter 'diskmgmt.msc'
(13) Shrink Windows C : \ partition to create enough unallocated free space for the Linux installation
(14) Shut down Windows normally. Then reboot to make sure the shrunken Windows partition boots normally

You should now be ready to boot from the Linux installation USB stick using the F12 boot option.