Can't access second HDD! Kind of urgent

grs · Feb 8, 2008

The PSU on my FreeNAS server died so I want info from one of the drive and I placed into another PC, this is the first time I've actually used more than one HDD in a PC. Anyway, Windows sees that there are two drive present (with in Device Manager) but it won't show up in Windows Explorer. Is there something I have to do? The jumpers on the second drive are set to slave with master present.

Ben333 · Feb 8, 2008

Right click my computer, click manage, go to disk management, select the volume you want to access, give it a drive letter (assuming that it has a windows compatible file system... which I have doubts (FAT16, FAT32, NTFS) and there you go ... I think

bchur83 · Feb 8, 2008

If it was a FreeNas drive, it is most likely a Linux File System. You will have to use Linux to mount the drive. I dont think Windows will be able to mount it, but I dont know a lot about linux so you will have to wait for someone who does.

grs · Feb 8, 2008

I think it must be using a Linux Standard, under management it says Healthy (GPT Protected Partition), if I right click on it all the options are greyed out.
I'll have to get a new PSU quickly.
If I change the mobo on a FreeNAS system do I need to reinstall the OS or can it handle the change ok?

JamesXP · Feb 8, 2008

you can just mount it in a livecd if you want.

grs · Feb 8, 2008

I forgot about the live CD, I can mount it in the desktop and work on it from the laptop. Thanks for that!

grs · Feb 8, 2008

I've tried the live CD and I can't get the drive mounted (I may have forgotten part of the process!) There is already info on the HDD that I really need to get at, is this going to be a problem?
I don't know anything about running Linux which doesn't really help.

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