Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 03:21:28 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive Message-ID: <1325848888.86578.YahooMailNeo@web36504.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFuo_fxUsvtNbRRy4WS34hW9=JCEhKAMYQd7h9cKseDDd%2Bdh2w@mail.gmail.com> References: <4F0517BA.1050405@mykitchentable.net> <1325819792.82542.YahooMailNeo@web36502.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <CAFuo_fxUsvtNbRRy4WS34hW9=JCEhKAMYQd7h9cKseDDd%2Bdh2w@mail.gmail.com>
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________________________________ From: Waitman Gobble <gobble.wa@gmail.com> To: Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Friday, January 6, 2012 5:09 AM Subject: Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> wrote: > Today I encountered a problem which has me stumped. I downloaded and > burned the ISO image for 9.0-RELEASE for amd64. I installed an older > IDE hard drive to test the new OS with and did the install. ... > Well the install finished and > then I attempted to reboot the system but nothing happened. And by that I > mean the computer's flash screen would come up and give me the choice > to enter the Bios Setup or Boot Menu and that's all. I could not enter the > bios setup or the Boot menu. ... > So basically, > FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE bricked an otherwise good 80GB hard drive > and I can't seem to recover it. > > > Hi Bill, What was going on with this drive before the install? ie, it was sitting on the self not being used, it was a daily use machine running something else, ... etc. At the moment it sounds to me like an inconvenient hardware failure. Waitman _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I had been running a similar computer with Windows XP with it. The drive was working fine a few moments before I did the install. I have a utility to test hard drives which boots from CD but like I said, when this drive is on a cable connected to any machine, booting is a non-option. I have an old IDE controller but it's ISA and I have not ISA slots on this computer. Looks like I may have to try the USB drive boot option to get on with this rescue.help
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