Hi all,
I realise a similar question has been posted before but mine is of a different nature. I have finally got freenas running exactly the way I want it with htpc, raspbmc and cifs/nfs shares working. So naturally now I want to stuff those up. My freenas has 3 x 2TB hdds and it runs from a usb stick. I would like to install windows on a FOURTH drive (I know partitioning dual boot is a no-no). Now logically I want to keep these systems completely separate with freenas not touching the fourth drive and windows not touching the freenas drives and booting by preference order (freenas will run 99% of the time). I don't have space/money for a second (third) computer so have settled on doing it this way. My concern is that once I boot into windows it may do something strange with the freenas drives and corrupt them. Has anyone had experience with this and/or knows a way to forcefully disable access to the hdds ensuring no data corruption of either freenas or windows (or better yet power them down)? My last option will be physically disconnecting the drives but would certainly rather avoid this if possible for obvious reasons.
A big thanks to everyone on this forum.... I'm extremely new to networking and have learnt a lot and got the system working solely through the responses to many common problems experienced by new users
I realise a similar question has been posted before but mine is of a different nature. I have finally got freenas running exactly the way I want it with htpc, raspbmc and cifs/nfs shares working. So naturally now I want to stuff those up. My freenas has 3 x 2TB hdds and it runs from a usb stick. I would like to install windows on a FOURTH drive (I know partitioning dual boot is a no-no). Now logically I want to keep these systems completely separate with freenas not touching the fourth drive and windows not touching the freenas drives and booting by preference order (freenas will run 99% of the time). I don't have space/money for a second (third) computer so have settled on doing it this way. My concern is that once I boot into windows it may do something strange with the freenas drives and corrupt them. Has anyone had experience with this and/or knows a way to forcefully disable access to the hdds ensuring no data corruption of either freenas or windows (or better yet power them down)? My last option will be physically disconnecting the drives but would certainly rather avoid this if possible for obvious reasons.
A big thanks to everyone on this forum.... I'm extremely new to networking and have learnt a lot and got the system working solely through the responses to many common problems experienced by new users