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Hi everyone. Got a new laptop recently with pre-installed windows and 2 hard drives. Decided to keep windows installed on the first one and dual-boot arch on the second drive. However, when I tried to mount windows drive, lsblk outputted the following:
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 0 223.6G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 1G 0 part /boot
└─sda2 8:2 0 222.6G 0 part /
sdb 8:16 1 0B 0 disk
zram0 254:0 0 3.8G 0 disk [SWAP]
I assume that sdb is my windows drive. I tried mounting it and got
mount: /mnt: fsconfig system call failed: /dev/sdb: Can't open blockdev.
dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.
ntfs-3g is installed on arch. What should I do?
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Try mdadm, as suggested here.
You can only mount Windows partitions, if you only see the entire device check dmesg to see what the kernel said when it was plugged.
Velocitas Eradico
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sdb size = 0B hints that could be an SD card reader
sanity check: can you still boot windows?
also: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dual_b … ibernation
also also: could be that windows is on drive connected via a path linux has no drviers for - please list lspci -vk
also also also: don't mount NTFS on linux - if you want to exchange data between both OS use exfat - using ntfs directly will sooner or later bite you with corruption
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sanity check: can you still boot windows?
yes, I can
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Try mdadm, as suggested
mdadm couldn't detect RAID arrays. Bios menu says that I have no RAID. Maybe optane is the issue?
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I think Optane is unsupported under Linux: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20190 … @lst.de/T/
Change the drive to AHCI if you want to detect it from Linux: https://superuser.com/questions/1280141 … windows-10
Velocitas Eradico
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Change the drive to AHCI if you want to detect it from Linux: https://superuser.com/questions/1280141 … windows-10
Well, that's unfortunate because my bios doesn't allow me to change to AHCI for some reason. Which is really strange cause I have optane running on both drives... Thanks, this was really helpful
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