Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 15:46:16 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Waitman Gobble <gobble.wa@gmail.com> Cc: Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive Message-ID: <20120106144616.GA28505@tinyCurrent> In-Reply-To: <CAFuo_fwQv2TTcyaOBW19njSJuc0EDg17hYUxmD0bHDrgbF%2B3yQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <4F0517BA.1050405@mykitchentable.net> <1325819792.82542.YahooMailNeo@web36502.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <CAFuo_fxUsvtNbRRy4WS34hW9=JCEhKAMYQd7h9cKseDDd%2Bdh2w@mail.gmail.com> <1325848888.86578.YahooMailNeo@web36504.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <CAFuo_fwQv2TTcyaOBW19njSJuc0EDg17hYUxmD0bHDrgbF%2B3yQ@mail.gmail.com>
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El día Friday, January 06, 2012 a las 06:37:02AM -0800, Waitman Gobble escribió: > On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > 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. > > It seems that there are BIOS features which need to have access to certain sectors of the disk with additional (Winblows) software. Once you format the entire disk for FreeBSD you will not enter the BIOS dialogue, nor it will boot anymore; google for a thread of FreeBSD installation on Acer laptops. HIH matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <guru@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/ UNIX since V7 on PDP-11 | UNIX on mainframe since ESER 1055 (IBM /370) UNIX on x86 since SVR4.2 UnixWare 2.1.2 | FreeBSD since 2.2.5
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