From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Mar 9 09:59:48 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 B39B3D03271 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2017 09:59:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luvbeastie@larseighner.com) Received: from emailserver2.asdf456.com (emailserver2.asdf456.com [72.18.207.139]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 839EE633 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2017 09:59:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luvbeastie@larseighner.com) Received: (qmail 8333 invoked by uid 0); 9 Mar 2017 09:53:06 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.4.0 ppid: 8044, pid: 8332, t: 0.1599s scanners:none Received: from unknown (HELO Lars-PC) (70.115.135.184) by emailserver2.asdf456.com with SMTP; Thu, 09 Mar 2017 09:53:06 +0000 Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 03:52:49 -0600 From: Lars Eighner X-X-Sender: Lars@Lars-PC Reply-To: Lars Eighner To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Cannot find Windows drive Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (CYG 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII 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 09:59:48 -0000 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? -- Lars Eighner luvbeastie@larseighner.com