From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Mar 9 11:53:17 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21BE1D04C15 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2017 11:53:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@rakupottery.org.uk) Received: from smtp-out-2.tiscali.co.uk (smtp-out-2.tiscali.co.uk [62.24.135.130]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "Client", Issuer "CA" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B6FB6811 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2017 11:53:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@rakupottery.org.uk) Received: from Martins-iMac.local ([92.27.146.104]) by smtp.talktalk.net with SMTP id lwd7c0eAOTrRilwd7cST6e; Thu, 09 Mar 2017 11:53:14 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [92.27.146.104] Subject: Re: Cannot find Windows drive To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: From: Martin Smith Message-ID: Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 11:53:13 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfChZDKXPS4MFvL+U0U9y2PM5tsZbinog/XqdDQORMhE+snVcTWiCcdJvahBuSH3vxgwjdf/IocanOAh4dhp2nT96UQPnz5du6sGCbfupygQZNxoJ+ezA u/lY44Bot+xAQ1yWc0BPdlTfq8GM6+9mk+UzaDTg/czENTPoel4u9/9dLxuBU3pDTDzX4DBSKdi3cikTkOneY9gVlTiJkjT0uhY= X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2017 11:53:17 -0000 On 09/03/2017 09:52, Lars Eighner wrote: > A lightning-related surge zapped the motherboard of my old SYX, but my > whole life was in its hard drives (which were mirrors of each other > except for fstab, so that either could be booted). So, I got something > called an HP 8000 dual core tower refurbished by Joy Systems. It was > supposed to come with Windows 7 biz on a 1 Tb drive -- and the drive > is in there. So I installed my 2 1-Tb drives in its internal stack, > having plenty of power and SATA plugs. I left the supposed Windows > drive alone. > > I was concerned about how I would get to the FreeBSD drives if it > booted in Windows, which is what I expected. But low and behold, it > booted into FreeBSD. The old drives had 10.x AMD kernels and worlds, > and they took off. I could boot to one or the other. But I cannot find > the Windows drive. It does not seem to show up in /dev. And when I go > to the BIOS set up, the BIOS does not seem to know of the existence of > the Windows drives either. I checked that all of the SATAs are not > hidden. > > bsdinstall only gives me a choice of the two known BSD drives -- I > thought I could adjust the MBR to include Windows, but bsdinstall > denies all knowledge of the third (original to the machine) drive. I > tried to get into the Intel BIOS Management, but it wants a password > -- I have no idea what. I suppose I should be happy to have my data > back. But the missing drive is preying on my mind. > > What happened? > will it boot into windows if you disconnect the BSD drives? if not the drive may be DOA, its not altogether unknown for that to happen -- Martin