Problems with an optical HDD caddy [solved]

Leios · 2012-08-21 12:38:30

Recently, I purchased an optical hard drive caddy and installed it with relative ease. On one HDD, I had Windows, and on the other, I had Archlinux. Both started up just fine for the first few days; however, I recently attempted to start my Windows partition with no success (It said, "Windows is starting" and then gave the generic backsplash for a computer error before crashing and returning to boot). Archlinux works perfectly fine, though.

Now, I have a few questions about this:
1. Did this possibly happen because Arch scanned my windows HDD while mounting at boot?
-Any ideas on how to fix it (or will I have to just reinstall Windows)?
2. How do I give myself permission to go into my Windows HDD's data through my file manager in openbox?
3. Is there any way to keep Arch from mounting the HDD at boot, or is the best way to start the system and then type "sudo hdparm -S 1 /dev/sda"
4. What is the best way to prevent this from happening in the future?

Last edited by Leios (2012-11-01 23:38:12)

Leios · 2012-08-21 14:05:25

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bl … acklisting

Well, this answers 3 and 4. I feel so silly right now, but I still don't get why this happened. Any thoughts?

nevermind. I'll update this once I am actually able to blacklist /dev/sda

Last edited by Leios (2012-08-21 14:11:33)

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#1 2012-08-21 12:38:30

Problems with an optical HDD caddy [solved]

#2 2012-08-21 14:05:25

Re: Problems with an optical HDD caddy [solved]

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