I just installed manjaro, however I am unable to mount my secondary HDD. When attempting to access the drive, dolphin gives me the following error:
An error occurred while accessing ‘New Volume’, the system responded: The requested operation has failed: Error mounting /dev/md126p1 at /run/media/dylanm/New Volume: Unknown error when mounting /dev/md126p1
Not sure, I’ll check when I get home from work in the evening. If it is Optane, I turned off UEFI and switched to legacy, (only Windows Boot Manager and network boot would show up in boot sequence) would that have an effect?
You’ll have to provide more information about your system and setup, otherwise we’ll just end up going off on unrelated tangents and wild goose chases.
You haven’t even said if this is a laptop. If this is a new purchase. If this “secondary” drive was included with the computer or installed afterwards.
Were you successfully using this drive prior to installing Manjaro? Was it gifted from a friend? Is there valuable data on it?
I’m using an upgraded Optiplex 3010, which I’ve had for 2 years and has ran fine. (except for windows, of course) The HDD in question was working normally before I switched to Manjaro, and there is valuable data on it. The HDD is a Hitachi HUA722010CLA330, and my boot drive is a PNY CS900 240GB SSD. Looking up the specs of the Optiplex 3010, it appears these drives were installed afterwards. It doesnt appear that I have Optane, though I’m not completely sure how to check. My general system specs are the following:
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-3470 CPU @ 3.20GHz
Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 470 Graphics
Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Product Name: OptiPlex 3010
System Version: 01
I tried to follow the UEFI install guide on the wiki, and if all went well, I would have had UEFI working right now. However, Gparted says on my SSD, I only have 2mb of space to resize.
I don`t know how to proceed. Could anyone kindly help?
Yes, but what about the other points in @megavolt’s post?
Such as: RAID → AHCI
Working normally under Windows? Do you remember how you initially configured it or formatted it?
You’re not using an Intel Optane drive, evident from the specs you shared (Hitatch 2.5" HDD and PNY SSD).
You’re treading into precarious grounds now. Be careful. Are you able to access the data on the Hitachi HDD from within Windows? If so, I’d backup everything for peace of mind.
I guess it is ext4 file system. Therefore you can only grow the partition when mounted. To move or shrink it, it have to be unmounted. If it is the system partition, so the root directory, it have to be done on a live session.
The heck is going on here? There are references to TWO different RAID arrays; both apparently using /dev/sdb as an underlying device.
MDADM software RAID… NTFS… level 0… only one drive?
Were you the original owner of this computer and its components, including the drives? This is non-standard. Someone has to go out of there way to do this.
Your BIOS settings are supposedly fine: SATA mode is AHCI. No Intel Optane.
Did you use some sort of RAID feature while under Windows? Dynamic storage? Something? Since you completely removed Windows altogether, it makes it more tricky to backtrack on what you did.
No, I received it as a gift from my uncle, who made the modifications to the hardware. No modifications have been made since I began to daily-drive it. There is no way of contacting him, as he passed away 2 years ago.
The data might be lost, if it is in fact from a two-drive RAID-0 array.
However, you can try a last ditch shot. (Since “RAID-0” might mean something different in this case, such as a single drive “stripe” array.)
Try to forcefully start the array and mount it as a read-only NTFS filesystem in a temporary mount point. If it’s accessible, you can copy all the data to another drive, such as an external USB.
I tried a live session and found I have no MBR or GPT on /dev/sda1. I’d rather not completely reinstall manjaro, as I’ve already taken up 25% of the available storage. Any ideas?