A FreeNAS noob here.. trying to convert my old desktop into NAS. I have a Dell Dimension e510 (yes its old) 2GB RAM 3.4ghz that contains 2 hard drives - 1 is a seagate barracuda 2tb (2013), the other is a western digital 2tb hd (2010). both SATA drives. One has windows xp on it, although i dont recall which one. I recently encountered the inability to boot windows, if that is relevant.
What I want to do is import those two hard drives and make them NAS storage WITHOUT erasing the data on them. They are filled with pictures/music/video/etc. I installed FreeNAS 9.2.1.8 x64 on a Lexar 8GB usb drive, booted up, accessed my UI.. I can see that it recognizes the disks (storage - volumes - view disks) as 2TB each, but when I do an import (select the 2tb drive, and select NTFS - which i think is the right format) they both show up as "UNKNOWN / error getting total space". On the desktop monitor screen i see this error 5 times (retries):
ATA Status: 51 (DRDY SERV ERR) Error: 40 (UNC)
I went through the windows recovery console to check the hard drives, and i get that error code 7 - which if my research is good is benign. when i navigate the folders in the recovery console i see the data is still there.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Is the problem that my windows boot is bad? I am not specifically trying to make it ZFS or UFS, I am just trying to make it usable network data.
What I want to do is import those two hard drives and make them NAS storage WITHOUT erasing the data on them. They are filled with pictures/music/video/etc. I installed FreeNAS 9.2.1.8 x64 on a Lexar 8GB usb drive, booted up, accessed my UI.. I can see that it recognizes the disks (storage - volumes - view disks) as 2TB each, but when I do an import (select the 2tb drive, and select NTFS - which i think is the right format) they both show up as "UNKNOWN / error getting total space". On the desktop monitor screen i see this error 5 times (retries):
ATA Status: 51 (DRDY SERV ERR) Error: 40 (UNC)
I went through the windows recovery console to check the hard drives, and i get that error code 7 - which if my research is good is benign. when i navigate the folders in the recovery console i see the data is still there.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Is the problem that my windows boot is bad? I am not specifically trying to make it ZFS or UFS, I am just trying to make it usable network data.