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Would you mind running this from the Zorin Live USB and pasting the result?

<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
sudo fdisk -l

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That will confirm whether Linux sees the disk even though BIOS doesn’t — a very helpful clue before assuming a hardware fault.


'''Prompt:'''
Linux sees the disk.

'''ChatGPT:'''
Perfect — that’s a very important finding. 👍

It tells us:

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So the BIOS isn’t “seeing” the drive because it’s formatted as GPT (for UEFI) but either:

* Missing a proper EFI System Partition (ESP), or
* Has a broken EFI boot entry that HP’s firmware won’t recognize.

Let’s fix this the safe way so your system boots normally again.