<div dir="ltr">You might try disabling the UEFI security in bios<div><br></div><div>getting everything specifically signed and approved withing the UEFI security environment sounds complicated.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Joe Feely <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joe.feely@googlemail.com" target="_blank">joe.feely@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>Trying to install Fedora 20 to a replacement Kingston <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">SSDNOW300V 120 GB SSD, from the live CD (Mate DE spin). The previous similar SSD died after 4 months excellent use.</span><br>
</div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><br></div><div>My hardware is a b<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">undle consisting of:- </span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Motherboard - Asrock FM2A75 Pro 4+ with CPU an AMD trinity A4 5300, and 2x2GB DDR3 RAM</span></div>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><br></div><div>What's happening:-</div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">On starting the bios (UEFI) can see the SSD (even displays the S/N); within UEFI is the only time I can see the SSD.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Fedora 20 live CD boots up ok (bar can't see the SSD), and following the option to install to hard drive it can't see any hard drive.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
(I tried with Linux Mint 16, and the same problem).</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
A friend has successfully connected to the drive via an external SSD reader (connected by USB 3), and used a program "Partition wizard 8" to format it, and copy and read some files successfully (he was running Windows 7).</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Any ideas what I could try ?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Thanks,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Joe</div></div>
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