1 ½ year ago -- my wife bought an Odys myBook PRO14 SE laptop from Amazon.de
The laptop came with Windows 10 installed, with the option to upgrade to Windows 11 -- which she decided to do (massive mistake).
Suddenly nothing worked properly, and the whole desktop went glitchy. She wanted Windows 10 back, so I opened the laptop to get at the SSD, to remove and erase it.. and found that there is no SSD. The wacky thing were made in China, and the micro flash drive is actually hardwired to the mainboard.
I decided to erase the drive using a KillDisk boot usb,
but KillDisk could not find the drive, only the usb stick showed in the drive list.
As a last resort -- I used the Zorin installer to erase the drive..
Here is where it went from annoying to completely mental..
The installation had problems; Unable to connect to WiFi, so drivers were unavailable, touchpad disabled, and so on..
Tried again to Install Windows 10 -- and the installation went normally until reaching the partition list. Again, only the usb partitions were found in the list. The installation drive is invisible.
Did some digging online, and found some Terminal commands for installing grub bootloader, to make the drive visible to Windows. (x86)
sudo grub-install /dev/sda
then tried:
sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
sudo reboot
None of these commands worked, so the drive is still invisible
to the installer.
I could not find any bootable formatting software which actually work.
I've used up everything in my bag of tricks
Anyone have any solutions?
Cheers!