Deepak Agarwal
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Hi Guys
This is my first post on this forum.
I was trying to convert one of my old PC's to a NAS. Based on the PDF & video instructions on your website I burned the iso image on to a CD (version 8), then booted my PC from that CD and then installed the FreeNAS software on a 8 Gb usb drive. Up to this point, it succeeded.
It then asked me to remove the CD, leaving the usb drive in the system and rebooting the system. The BIOS was changed to booting sequence of CDROM, USB, HDD. I was expecting it to reboot from the USB drive. But it encountered an error and could not go further.
I then removed the usb drive and checked it on another PC. To my surprise, this drive came up as unformatted. It asked me if I wanted to format it - the capacity shown was 942 MB. What happened? The 8 Gb usb was reduced to a 1 Gb usb.
Thinking that perhaps my original usb drive was bad, I repeated the process with another 8 Gb usb - the same thing happened again! What's happening here? FreeNAS did not get installed and I lost 2 8 Gb usb drives in the bargain.
Can someone advise me as to how can I regain the original capacity of my USB drives? Also, how can I get it installed without having to install it on the existing hard disk drive on that PC?
Best regards
Deepak
This is my first post on this forum.
I was trying to convert one of my old PC's to a NAS. Based on the PDF & video instructions on your website I burned the iso image on to a CD (version 8), then booted my PC from that CD and then installed the FreeNAS software on a 8 Gb usb drive. Up to this point, it succeeded.
It then asked me to remove the CD, leaving the usb drive in the system and rebooting the system. The BIOS was changed to booting sequence of CDROM, USB, HDD. I was expecting it to reboot from the USB drive. But it encountered an error and could not go further.
I then removed the usb drive and checked it on another PC. To my surprise, this drive came up as unformatted. It asked me if I wanted to format it - the capacity shown was 942 MB. What happened? The 8 Gb usb was reduced to a 1 Gb usb.
Thinking that perhaps my original usb drive was bad, I repeated the process with another 8 Gb usb - the same thing happened again! What's happening here? FreeNAS did not get installed and I lost 2 8 Gb usb drives in the bargain.
Can someone advise me as to how can I regain the original capacity of my USB drives? Also, how can I get it installed without having to install it on the existing hard disk drive on that PC?
Best regards
Deepak