I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 on a SanDisk 2 TB External SDD.
I'm trying to install Ubuntu 26.04 to both new SanDisk 2 TB and 4 TB external SDDs using the live version on the installation media.
The installation media is a 128 GB PNY USB thumb drive. I'm using the provided install application.
The drive successfully installs to the internal 1 TB SDD on my OMEN laptop.
When I try to install to the new out of the box SanDisks, I get the following error shown in curtain-install.log files:
For the 2 TB:
Disk /dev/sdb: 1.82 TiB, 2000365371904 bytes, 3906963617 sectors
Disk model: Extreme Pro 55AF
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 2097152 bytes
>>> Script header accepted.
>>> Created a new GPT disklabel (GUID: 9E39D798-C9A3-400C-A979-C3C238C5E55F).
/dev/sdb1: Sector 2048 already used.
Failed to add #1 partition: Numerical result out of range
Leaving.
And for the 4 TB drive:
Running command ['sfdisk', '--no-reread', '/dev/sda', '--no-tell-kernel'] with allowed return codes [0] (capture=False)
Disk /dev/sda: 3.64 TiB, 4000753467904 bytes, 7813971617 sectors
Disk model: Extreme Pro 55AF
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 2097152 bytes
>>> Script header accepted.
>>> Created a new GPT disklabel (GUID: 2DACFC5F-1F5E-448E-B73D-CA48ECCD5962).
/dev/sda1: Sector 2048 already used.
Failed to add #1 partition: Numerical result out of range
Leaving.
Any help would be appreciated. Or do I just buy a different brand of SDD?