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I have installed Ubuntu 20.04 to my Acer aspire 3. Windows 10 was preinstalled to hdd and I bought ssd and installed ubuntu to my new ssd and currently ubuntu is not detecting my hdd , I think it is because of windows 10 installed to my hdd , and I can easly use windows with pushing f12 while it restarts and choosing windows and I can switch OS to ubuntu with the same way. PLease help me how can I use hdd in ubuntu as well, thanks beforehand.

Mirabbos Botirjonov
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  • First thing, you probably want to check in your BIOS/UEFI that the ssd is the first device to boot. That should give you a grub menu with both Ubuntu and Windows on it. Then in Ubuntu, using a terminal execute the command lsblk and add the output to your question – PonJar Apr 03 '21 at 09:59
  • Terminal detected my ssd but didn't find hdd – Mirabbos Botirjonov Jun 02 '21 at 12:09
  • Are you saying the lsblk command did not show anything for the HDD? In Windows what does the disk manager show for the disk type for the HDD? It could be basic or dynamic. Does the HDD have an EFI partition? Could be one OS is legacy and the other UEFI. – PonJar Jun 02 '21 at 13:12
  • It showed only some partitions of hdd. Here is lsblk result (for some reason windows splited my hdd several partitions that is why thre are so many disks detected):
    • – Mirabbos Botirjonov Jun 02 '21 at 15:00
  • NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT loop0 7:0 0 26M 1 loop /run/miso/sfs/livefs loop1 7:1 0 348.7M 1 loop /run/miso/sfs/mhwdfs loop2 7:2 0 1.6G 1 loop /run/miso/sfs/desktopfs loop3 7:3 0 679.3M 1 loop /run/miso/sfs/rootfs sda 8:0 1 14.7G 0 disk /run/miso/bootmnt ├─sda1 8:1 1 2.6G 0 part └─sda2 8:2 1 4M 0 part nvme0n1 259:0 0 111.8G 0 disk ├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 16M 0 part └─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 111.8G 0 part – Mirabbos Botirjonov Jun 02 '21 at 15:00
  • It says online and I have a option to change it to dynamic

    • 3)from cmd on windows I searched for this DISKPART> list disk Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt

    Disk 0 Online 931 GB 1024 KB * Disk 1 Online 111 GB 1024 KB *

    – Mirabbos Botirjonov Jun 02 '21 at 15:00
  • P.S I have currently ssd(120gb)+hdd(1tb) on my laptop P.S 2 thanks for your help beforehand :) – Mirabbos Botirjonov Jun 02 '21 at 15:02
  • Observations 1) Windows shows both disks. 2) sda looks like its a small usb drive in the region of 16GB. Were you in a live environment when you ran the lsblk command? 3) Your SSD (nvme0n1) is not mounted so you were not running Ubuntu on that disk when you ran the lsblk command. 4) the partitioning of the SSD looks odd for Ubuntu and could be the result of a legacy install. 5) I don't think your HDD is dynamic, which is good because Ubuntu cannot read it if it is. Don't attempt to change it, you can lose data if you do. @oldfred Do you have any comments? – PonJar Jun 02 '21 at 17:28
  • correct 2) correct 3)correct 4)I couldn't understand that but it seems correct 5) correct ok
    • – Mirabbos Botirjonov Jun 02 '21 at 18:16