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Aroshold

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Registered: 2024-10-13

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Unable to recognize dual-booted windows drive

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?

Head_on_a_Stick

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Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: Unable to recognize dual-booted windows drive

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.

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cryptearth

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Registered: 2024-02-03

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Re: Unable to recognize dual-booted windows drive

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

Aroshold

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Registered: 2024-10-13

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Re: Unable to recognize dual-booted windows drive

sanity check: can you still boot windows?

yes, I can

Aroshold

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Registered: 2024-10-13

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Re: Unable to recognize dual-booted windows drive

Try mdadm, as suggested

mdadm couldn't detect RAID arrays. Bios menu says that I have no RAID. Maybe optane is the issue?

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Unable to recognize dual-booted windows drive

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

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Aroshold

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Registered: 2024-10-13

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Re: Unable to recognize dual-booted windows drive

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