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Disk Utility can't find my hard drive

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Hello, I'm new to the area and I'm really enjoying going through this experience, but unfortunately I came across a problem that I can't find a solution.
I'm trying to install macos Ventura 13 on my laptop
HP 246 g7
i3-1005G1
4gb ram
240gb SSD Kingston
Using EFI: Clover Notebooks - Icelake available here on this site

I created a bootable pendrive using Balena
I used gibMacos to change the EFI folder
and I was able to boot the installation system
in disk utility I don't see my SSD

I already tried to search for my disks via terminal using the command:
"diskutil list"
still i can't find any trace of my SSD to proceed. is there any solution for my hardware in this problem?

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Hello 🙂, a year later but with a solution..  for others it might be useful (I discovered it searching and trying..)  these days (dec 2023).

First: the target volume (hard drive) can be, only, exclusively an SSD (your 240gb SSD Kingston is good).  Second: before anything, on Windows 10, with a  Mini Tool Partition Wizard (free version does the magic, yup)  launch as an administrator - always,  CONVERT the target SSD from MBR to GPT !!! and then partition it (as exFAT or NTFS, doesn't matter but not FAT32) and then format it (using all the time MiniToolPartWiz). Only NOW it is ready for Ventura install (for pc or mac) and should be seen.  Third: 8GB of DDR are minimum... it's not me, it's Apple 😌

Cheers m8

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