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OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical => Hardware => Topic started by: andreas on January 31, 2025, 05:35:54 pm

Title: No Drive Visible for Installation
Post by: andreas on January 31, 2025, 05:35:54 pm
I just got a new Dell-PC. But i cannot inststall ArcaOS, cause there s inly the installation-stick visible, not the 1TB harddisk (OEM 10EC Consistant NVME S6001TB). What can i do?
pc allows legacy mode (no UEFI).

while loading the installation module i get the message: "could not copy NND.MSG".
I disabled "SATA" in the Bios, but that didn't help.
Title: Re: no Drive visible for inatallation
Post by: ivan on January 31, 2025, 08:49:16 pm
Have you tried using DFSee to check the disk and, if necessary, prepare it for OS/2?
Title: Re: no Drive visible for inatallation
Post by: Dave Yeo on January 31, 2025, 08:55:00 pm
Hi Andreas, what version of ArcaOS are you installing? You need a new enough version to support the NVME device, forget exactly which.
Title: Re: no Drive visible for inatallation
Post by: Martin Iturbide on January 31, 2025, 10:40:26 pm
Hello

Just to add more question. What if you enabled UEFI and install ArcaOS 5.1 with UEFi support? (if that is the ArcaOS version that you have available).

Also, there was a way to generate the "testlog generic" log from the USB boot. If you share that report file here on the forum, it may give us more hints about the hardware and what driver may be missing for the install.

Regards
Title: Re: no Drive visible for inatallation
Post by: Pete on January 31, 2025, 11:47:34 pm
Hi andreas

When booting the installation stick select to "Boot with own choices" or similar wording and make sure the nvme driver is selected.


Regards

Pete
Title: Re: no Drive visible for inatallation
Post by: Remy on February 01, 2025, 12:58:43 pm
Hi,

New PC with nvme.
Has the nvme GPT partition ? If yes, you must have latest ArcaOS.
Try to boot from a DFSEE bootable media and check what it report.   
Title: Re: No Drive Visible for Installation
Post by: andreas on February 03, 2025, 01:50:31 am
Problem ist solved. I wanted to install arcaos5.1. First I had legacy mpde activated. After I activated UEFI the drive appeared!
Thanks to all of you