Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 14:03:18 +0100 From: Jan Stary <hans@stare.cz> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot find Windows drive Message-ID: <20170309130318.GA72057@www.stare.cz> In-Reply-To: <alpine.CYG.2.20.1703090334120.27356@Lars-PC> References: <alpine.CYG.2.20.1703090334120.27356@Lars-PC>
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On Mar 09 03:52:49, luvbeastie@larseighner.com 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. Good, so you have your data back. Make an external backup, now. > 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. After you make a safe external backup of your BSD drive(s), disconnect them and boot into the FreeBSD installer (say, off a CD). Does it see the 1TB drive. Jan
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