Can't install on HP Laptop 14-dq0760dx - SSD not recognized

shemismyname · April 20, 2026, 2:46pm

heyo,

just flashed a USB drive (using etcher) and tried to install Haiku on a pretty modern HP laptop, model 14-dq0760dx.

the live environment worked fine (for the most part, didn’t seem to recognize the network card but that’s a future me problem) but trying to install got me a “No compatible partition” error, and when i tried to partition the disk it just didn’t recognize the 128gb SSD. i could only format the USB drive.

tried both stable and nightly, for what its worth. both couldn’t find the SSD, both in the installer and the live environment.

(also, just in case anyone like me searches for this in the future - at the moment you can’t install Haiku with Ventoy, gotta flash the whole drive.)

any help would be appreciated thanks!

Diver · April 20, 2026, 3:00pm

This laptop seem to have eMMC storage instead of SSD. eMMC is currently not supported, there is some work going on to change that. See [GSoC 2026] eMMC Storage Support

shemismyname · April 20, 2026, 5:22pm

huh, i did not know this was a type of storage. was a fun Wikipedia read.

gonna have to see if i have a different machine to try it on then. thanks!

brunobastardi · April 20, 2026, 5:59pm

Just use the USB-Stick for HAIKU!

BFS-format the empty space and install IT there

Begasus · April 21, 2026, 5:29am

Running Haiku here on a HP laptop 17-cp1010nB just fine, as @brunobastardi mentioned, format the empty partition as BFS and install Haiku there, if the system is using EFI, cp (don’t know how installing EFI file is supported in nightly), cp the efi file from the USB to the EFI partition. Worked out OK here.