I have a Dell XPS 15 laptop and a recent Windows update broke my system, I'm stuck in a perpetual Apply Update -> Fail -> Rollback loop. Before removing the hard drive to retrieve my files and doing a clean Windows install, I wanted to try booting into Ubuntu to transfer my files off.
I created an Ubuntu bootable USB with Rufus and after messing around with some parameters (nomodeset) I was able to get into Ubuntu.
But from here I don't know how to access and retrieve my files. In Disk Management the only drives I see are the 8GB USB I'm using to run Ubuntu. I can't find/mount my ~1TB windows drive.
Here are the results of running lsblk after removing the loop devices used for Snap packages:
ubuntu@ubuntu:/$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 1 7.5G 0 disk
└─sda1 8:1 1 7.5G 0 part /cdrom
I'm not really sure where to go from here and am at a loss for how to recover my files this way after a botched Windows update. Any help here is greatly appreciated!
SOLUTION: @To Do's solution below was able to help me figure out my problem. "I had a similar issue when I tried installing Ubuntu on my Inspiron 15. See this answer: askubuntu.com/a/696414/27968. You may also try AHCI/SATA mode instead of AHCI."
