Lenovo ideapad 710S-13IKB bios/boot issue

[Shlomo Solomon]

On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:35:05 +0300
Gabor Szabo <gabor at szabgab.com> wrote:

> Booting from disk on key:
> I found a disk on key with Ubuntu 18.10 on it.
> After plugging in and changing the boot order in the BIOS I managed
> to boot from it.
> I could even connect to the wifi, but I don't know how to access the
> harddisk of the computer.
> 
> sudo lsblk      shows me
> 
> NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
> loop0    7:0    0   1.8G  1 loop /rofs
> loop1    7:1    0  87.9M  1 loop /snap/core/5662
> loop2    7:2    0 140.9M  1 loop /snap/gnome-3-26-1604/70
> loop3    7:3    0   2.3M  1 loop /snap/gnome-calculator/238
> loop4    7:4    0    13M  1 loop /snap/gnome-characters/124
> loop5    7:5    0  14.5M  1 loop /snap/gnome-logs/45
> loop6    7:6    0   3.7M  1 loop /snap/gnome-system-monitor/57
> loop7    7:7    0  42.1M  1 loop /snap/gtk-common-themes/701
> sda      8:0    1  14.3G  0 disk /cdrom
> ----sda1   8:1    1   1.9G  0 part
> ----sda2   8:2    1   2.4M  0 part
> 
> where sda is the disk on key.
> 
> At this point I was wondering how could I access the HD when running
> Ubuntu from USB.
> 
> any pointers, ideas are welcome
> 
> Gabor

I can't help with Windows, but your final question seems easy (or am I
mis-understanding?).

If you just want to access the hard drive, why not try sudo fdisk -l to
get info about the drive and then either mount the relevant partition
manually or add it to /etc/fstab on the USB drive?

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