A colleague of mine regretted updating her laptop from Win10 to Win11, so we installed Ubuntu on it this morning. Or at least, we tried to.
She created a bootable USB key and special restarted Windows into booting that. We go through the process of installing Ubuntu to replace Windows, which all goes fine. At the end, Ubuntu instructs us to remove the USB key and restart, which we do.
...and up comes bitlocker, trying to revive windows. We reboot into the USB key again, and see that her laptop has two internal disks, one 500Gb SSD and one 250Gb one. Ubuntu is installed on the 500Gb one, and Windows and Bitlocker are still on the 250Gb one. I open up a terminal and format the 250Gb SSD using mkfs -t ntfs -F on it.
And now the 500Gb SSD has disappeared. Impossible to locate it using lsblk, gparted, df, nothing shows up.
How can we find it again to mount it and recreate a partition on it? We've now installed Ubuntu on the 250Gb SSD and it's running, but it would be nice to get the full use of the laptop back.
EDIT: output of some commands (pardon my french):
> sudo parted -l
Modèle : WD easystore 2648 (scsi) (this is an external HDD)
Disque /dev/sda : 5001GB
Taille des secteurs (logiques/physiques) : 512B/4096B
Table de partitions : gpt
Drapeaux de disque :
Numéro Début Fin Taille Système de fichiers Nom Drapeaux
1 1049kB 5001GB 5001GB ntfs easystore msftdata
Modèle : KINGSTON OM8PDP3256B-AI1 (nvme)
Disque /dev/nvme0n1 : 256GB
Taille des secteurs (logiques/physiques) : 512B/512B
Table de partitions : gpt
Drapeaux de disque :
Numéro Début Fin Taille Système de fichiers Nom Drapeaux
1 1049kB 1128MB 1127MB fat32 démarrage, esp
2 1128MB 256GB 255GB ext4
> lsblk -e 7 -o name,fstype,size,fsused,mountpoint,uuid,model,label,partlabel
NAME FSTYPE SIZE FSUSED MOUNTPOINT UUID MODEL LABEL PARTLABEL
sda 4,5T WDC WD50NDZW-11BCSS0
└─sda1 ntfs 4,5T 998,8G /media/unicorn/easystore D026C2B726C29E3A easystore easystore
nvme0n1 238,5G KINGSTON OM8PDP3256B-AI1
├─nvme0n1p1 vfat 1G 6,1M /boot/efi 3386-EFCD
└─nvme0n1p2 ext4 237,4G 24,8G / 390c4bbc-bf63-4b9e-9681-6eaa40a5ebc4
