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I'm trying to install Ubuntu on an acer aspire 3. I boot the installer from a USB drive and things go fine until I need to make a new partition for Ubuntu. Here it seems like the installer can't detect the hard drive and the only available drive is the USB stick. See image What I see on the installer

This is what it looks like in GParted

What it looks like on GParted. No device other than the USB stick is found.

After some googling I found that I had to change the SATA mode to AHCI from the BIOS setup. I did this but it doesn't seem to have helped. I see that this post describes almost exactly the same problem except with an earlier version of Ubuntu, but the question there has not been answered. Any ideas here?

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  • According to this https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/978937/#Comment_978937 and this https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209419 it's a kernel bug (or more likely a HW bug the kernel has yet to workaround) – Matias N Goldberg Jan 23 '22 at 15:41
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    Have you updated UEFI to latest available? Amd of SSD update SSD firmware? https://askubuntu.com/questions/1217061/installation-on-acer-swift-5-freezes-no-partitions-shown Acer Aspire 5 Model A515-54-5649 Intel Core i5-10210U Install Tutorial https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2437702 Acer Aspire A515-54G Newer Acer - CTRL S on the main Tab in BIOS to get the option to change SATA to AHCI – oldfred Jan 23 '22 at 16:50
  • Have you tried clicking the dropdown menu in the top right corner, where your current drive is showing? – laur34 Apr 01 '22 at 12:22

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