

In other words, nobody had even run FDisk on those drives. The cavernous space out back had several shelves stacked high with old hard drives, each $5, "as is and untested," according to the sign. Although Windows doesn't give you any tools for recovering the data afterward, many such tools are currently on the market (for descriptions of those tools, see "Tools of Evidence," Machine Shop, March 2003).īut the real treasure trove that day wasn't on the store's display shelves it was in the warehouse.

Running Windows FDisk on a 10GB drive overwrites only 0.01 percent of the drive's sectors.

I have tried Peripherals -> USB Storage Devices options for the VerbatimSTORE N GO: Anybody know how to get the USB to show up as an option? I'd like to stress that this is not a case where it won't boot from the usb drive just that it doesn't show up as an option in boot priorities. This is intended to be an input-device-free system, so it would be nice to have it boot without having to plug in a keyboard and monitor every time to select the boot drive. But Save & Exit -> Boot Override does list the usb drive. In the setup page, BIOS Features -> Boot Option Priorities only lists the first RAID drive (there are 5), doesn't list the USB. If I hit F12 when available, the USB drive is listed among the options and it boots in just fine. When I start the machine, by default it attempts to boot from one of the RAID drives, which doesn't work. There are no other bootable devices in the system. Per FreeNAS' recommendations, my os is on a USB flash drive. I have a FreeNAS setup working quite well on this motherboard, just one question.
