How to make a ssd card accept the startup disc creator

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I have several ssd 1tb cards that I have been blanking out, formatting, partitioning, etc but nothing seems to work.

Thoughts?

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Startup Disk Creator is for creating install media from isos on removable devices like USB sticks, CD ROMs or DVDs that you will boot the installer from, to then install from the running USB key (or DVD) to some internal SSD or HDD, you do not run it against an SSD device directly (as I told you in another thread already)

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Startup Disk Creator prefers FAT32 or unformatted partitions. You can format it using Disks or gparted

I have found that the simplest thing to do is create a partition table on the target device, USB or whatever, with either gpt or msdos but then leave unformatted.

Startup Disk Creator will then format the target device with whatever is needed, boot partition etc.

After the ISO has been written you can remove the device and use it on another computer.

Or reboot and make sure BIOS is set to use the device and then either run a live session of Ubuntu or install whatever version was added to the external device.

Bear in mind that depending on what kind of install you choose, this will erase whatever is on the computer you are currently using or plan on installing to.

Hope this helps.

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I use an ssd card reader - look for ‘ssd to USB’ on web, it costs €5-10

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thank you for the reply…

Think I am starting to figure it out

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