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Good morning,

I would like to install Ubuntu on my external Samsung 980 Pro NVMe M.2 SSD. On my MacBook I have used balenaEtcher to flash Ubuntu 22.04 to a 16 GB SanDisk USB drive. After that I have restarted the laptop, held the option key and selected the usb drive. Ubuntu Installation came up, when at drive management I chose 'Something different' but it only lists the Mac's internal ssd and the usb drive.

The Samsung SSD is recognised by any laptop I plug it into. Currently it is formatted in NTFS by a windows machine.

Could someone please help me with the installation process? There is not much information I could find online about this.

Thank you in advance!

vagok
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  • Which MacBook do you have? There are many that will not work correctly with any flavour of Linux ... – matigo Aug 31 '22 at 09:09
  • 13-inch, 2017, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports – vagok Aug 31 '22 at 10:09
  • Did Windows have fast start up on? That sets hibernation flag and prevents Linux NTFS driver from normally mounting it read write to prevent you from damaging it. https://askubuntu.com/questions/843153/unable-to-mount-windows-10-partition-it-is-in-an-unsafe-state & https://askubuntu.com/questions/145902/unable-to-mount-windows-ntfs-filesystem-due-to-hibernation You must partition in advance to have an ESP on external drive. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1396379 See: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1296065/dual-booting-w10-ubuntu-with-2-separate-ssds-in-uefi-mode – oldfred Aug 31 '22 at 13:54
  • Indeed that was the problem, I formatted the SSD with my Mac using exFat, and I was able to install Ubuntu on it. Thank you! – vagok Sep 01 '22 at 04:00

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