## DO Not use Wizard automatic Volume creation if you have a HDD with data##
Hi everyone,
I love freenas and I have been using it in multiple environments/setups.
The automatic setup options which give you the choice to create a volume will automatically create a volume without giving you the option to select a drive and will use full HDD size and break any partitions you may have
I thought of using the 9.3 to build a new system with a bunch of my old drives. So I copied all data from 3 drives to a single drive (4th drive) prior to freenas installation and then did my installation. So pretty much a new freenas build on USB, with 4 physical hdds (3 empty, 1 with data). After the installation, i thought of testing the wizard and on the step which it was asking to create a volume and share, I selected 1 windows/CIFS and gave a name, hoping I can select the disk on the next step.
" NO " - without any warning or option to select a drive, freenas will select a drive (i donno the logic on disk selection) and create the volume and share for you. In my case, Free NAS decided to wipe my 500GB drive which I had all my data and create the new partitions... There goes my data with the numbers of hours of selective copying...
Call it my stupidity... But I just wanted to share the message so another sould doesnt go through what I'm going through right now-- messing with winhex to recover all data.
Hi everyone,
I love freenas and I have been using it in multiple environments/setups.
The automatic setup options which give you the choice to create a volume will automatically create a volume without giving you the option to select a drive and will use full HDD size and break any partitions you may have
I thought of using the 9.3 to build a new system with a bunch of my old drives. So I copied all data from 3 drives to a single drive (4th drive) prior to freenas installation and then did my installation. So pretty much a new freenas build on USB, with 4 physical hdds (3 empty, 1 with data). After the installation, i thought of testing the wizard and on the step which it was asking to create a volume and share, I selected 1 windows/CIFS and gave a name, hoping I can select the disk on the next step.
" NO " - without any warning or option to select a drive, freenas will select a drive (i donno the logic on disk selection) and create the volume and share for you. In my case, Free NAS decided to wipe my 500GB drive which I had all my data and create the new partitions... There goes my data with the numbers of hours of selective copying...
Call it my stupidity... But I just wanted to share the message so another sould doesnt go through what I'm going through right now-- messing with winhex to recover all data.
