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unzip
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### Total disk wipe
_This is an excerpt from a comment I made on the original [thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/g88hhs/need_help_installing_ubuntu/)._
1. Launch a live usb
2. Launch a terminal and run “sudo gdisk -l” and find and note down the name of your main disk, use this in step 2
3. On the assumption your disk is “/dev/nvme0n1” (your screenshots suggest this is the device name) run “sudo gdisk /dev/nvme0n1”
4. In gdisk, press “x” (expert mode)
5. In gdisk, press “z” (zap) and respond yes to all questions- this will remove both gpt and mbr partition tables
6. Quit gdisk
7. Reboot
Your disk should now be as blank as is possible without writing zeroes across the whole disk.
### Logs
__Please make sure to install [Required packages](#Required-packages) before following this process.__
__Please make sure to install [Required packages](#required-packages) before following this process.__
During diagnostics on a live usb we ran the following commands to ship logs to [seashells](https://seashells.io):
@ -70,7 +84,7 @@ To ensure BIOS firmware was not the issue, we chose to perform a bios update.
#### Thinkpad L490 BIOS Updates
__Please make sure to install [Required packages](#Required-packages) before following this process.__
__Please make sure to install [Required packages](#required-packages) before following this process.__
The L490 does not have a CD drive, and yet the only way Lenovo provide to update firmware outside of Windows is a non-USB iso file available (available at time of writing [here](https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles/r0zuj12wd.iso)). Thanks Lenovo.
@ -93,7 +107,9 @@ This successfully updated the BIOS, however did not resolve the issue.
#### Intel nvme SSD790 firmware Updates
__Please make sure to install [Required packages](#Required-packages) before following this process.__
_Unfortunately, the same bug that we are trying to fix seemingly causes the linux-based updater to fail. If you have access to another machine with a spare m.2 nvme slot available, however, this step may still be useful in resolving your issue and so will be left here._
__Please make sure to install [Required packages](#required-packages) before following this process.__
Lenovo do provide firmware updates for this SSD, however again they are only available in Windows guise. Intel themselves do, however, provide a linux-friendly USB-Bootable iso image [here](https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/29248/Intel-SSD-Firmware-Update-Tool). This can be downloaded, extracted, and written to usb:
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# sync disk before unplugging
sync
```
Unfortunately, the same bug that we are trying to fix seemingly causes the linux-based updater to fail. If you have access to another machine with a spare m.2 nvme slot available, however, this step may still be useful in resolving your issue and so will be left here.