From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Mar 9 13:03:30 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 3FA2BD02A65 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2017 13:03:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hans@stare.cz) Received: from mx.stare.cz (ns.stare.cz [79.98.77.229]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A0EC91B7A for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2017 13:03:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hans@stare.cz) Received: from www.stare.cz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.stare.cz (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 0a03723b for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2017 14:03:18 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 14:03:18 +0100 From: Jan Stary To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot find Windows drive Message-ID: <20170309130318.GA72057@www.stare.cz> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.1 (2016-10-04) 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 13:03:30 -0000 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