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Window installation error with linux boot drive
I can't install Windows 11 on my SSD with a GPT partition. I've tried using both Ventoy and Rufus, with and without secure boot, but nothing seems to work. It keeps showing the error:
Windows could ...
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UEFI boot got hosed [closed]
"UEFI laptop got hosed, how do I fix?"
I have a UEFI laptop, which got hosed. The Windows' C: drive got changed so it no longer boots. It tries to find C:\Windows (which is currently C:\...
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Enter Bios/UEFI from desktop shortcut
I am currently dual booting windows and linux, i dont want to use grub because grub tends to get very flakey the longer things go on.
IS there a way for me to create a desktop shortcut in linux to ...
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Windows 8.1 Pro VM (on VirtualBox running on Ubuntu) won't boot [closed]
First and foremost, forgive me if any of the following command returns are too vague or missing; I'm typing this up partly from screenshots and partly from memory. Happy to run any or all of them ...
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Windows 11 freezes on boot screen after I install graphics drivers (multi-GPU setup on workstation motherboard)
I don't encounter this problem on Ubuntu or Fedora, but on Windows 11, after the first boot and after I install drivers for the graphics cards (2x NVIDIA RTX 3090), rebooting will result in the ...
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GRUB: Windows Memory Diagnostic
I've been trying to add the "Windows Memory Diagnostic" utility to my GRUB bootloader. I have not had any luck, though. Every script I've tried writing has resulted in an error message, with ...
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Fast Startup (Hibernate): Windows failed fast startup with error status 0xC00000D4
The windows Fast Startup feature has a problem in my HP Victus 15 laptop.
i have it enabled from control panel, if i shutdown the laptop and leave it for like a day, when i turn it on, it is doing a ...
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Windows Boot: Stuck in Boot loader
This question is about a Laptop which has Windows 10 64-Bit and 32-Bit in a dual boot configuration via Windows boot manager.
A CPU upgrade (change of the CPU, bought used) was recently performed. I ...
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Unable to Boot Windows from NVMe SSD After Removing Old SSD
I previously had Windows installed on an SSD. Recently, I upgraded my PC by installing a new NVMe SSD and also installed Windows on it. However, upon booting my PC, the Windows Boot Manager presents ...
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How to permanantly disable CHKDSK
I have a 128GB flash drive with Windows 7 installed on it using WinToUSB. I use my pendrive in my home PC to sync my files and also in another PC where there's no keyboard. The problem is, on every ...
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Windows 11 does not boot even in safe mode after cloning
I have a new clear notebook, maked an ssd image on old notebook and restored on new.
On new notebook Windows 11 freezes on booting on startup screen in normal or safe mode.
I trying to enable bootlog, ...
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Windows 11 & 11 Dual Boot - Show which OS to boot into on startup?
I recently moved an M.2 drive from my second PC to my primary PC. My primary PC already has a Windows 11 installation and so does the newly installed M.2. I would like to keep both installs and boot ...
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Unexpected store exception, Rebooted but now Windows won’t boot. Stuck at manufacturer logo
I’ll explain the situation So yesterday I got a blue screen of dead, with the error code UNEXPECTED_STORE_EXCEPTION. I tried to look online for quite a bit but I can’t seem to find a solution, even ...
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How to reinstall Windows on Modecom compute stick
Long time ago we bought Modecom FreePC with win10 on it. Upon first boot it asked which version of the Windows to use (32 or 64bit). Unfortunately I was not there for the initial boot and the person ...
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How do I change language in the Windows Recovery Environment?
I have two preferred languages in Settings: English and Swedish. The Windows display language is English.
When you restart Windows 11 by pressing Shift and clicking Restart, Windows boots up to the ...
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two Win10 OS on different physical ssd device
I currently have two SSDs installed on my computer. On one SSD, I have Windows 10 installed for work-related tasks and office work. Recently, I acquired a new SSD specifically to store and run games. ...
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I need serious help this Windows 7 computer: How do I get to advanced boot options?
I need to go to 'advanced boot options' because I have a problem with my Windows 7 computer that doesn't let me log into my computer.
I saw a video how to fix it, and I have to go to advanced boot ...
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Backing up my entire Windows OS and then booting from restored backup [duplicate]
Have just been coming up with a new backup strategy for my Windows systems, as previously i would use the Windows System Image tool very occasionally, however this is quite clunky, and i have heard it ...
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Windows 10 Stuck in a Recovery Mode Boot Loop
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A friend asked me to repair his wife's computer, which "wouldn't boot".
The computer is stuck in the infamous Windows boot loop, where it will just boot to Recovery Mode over and ...
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Recovering non-booting Windows from overfull partition
Windows demands a minimum amount of free space on its partition. It reserves this space, so it cannot be used. So, Windows would say, the partition is completely full, the free space is zero. But it ...
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Invalid signature detected: Check Secure Boot policy
I had an old setup with Windows 11 and Ubuntu on my Gigabyte X370. I installed Windows with only one SSD in the system, then removed it, installed Ubuntu on another SSD and plugged them both in.
If I ...
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New SSD slow boot ~1m30s to boot
I have an old NP530U4B-S01FR that had HDD. I replaced it by a crucial 500Gb.
Installed new Windows 10 on it, after upgrading all drivers and updates, the boot time takes around 1m30s.
I tried ...
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My (windows) PC is giving me the black screen of death after a power outage
As the title says, my computer is just a black screen when I boot it up. This problem started after the power went out when the PC was on, and it was only out for about 10 seconds. I tried turning the ...
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Computer not responding to power changes after hardware upgrade
I upgraded my computers CPU/Mobo/RAM/GPU, and afterwards the power options are being strange.
It won't fully shutdown, after Windows stops, and there's no video output, the computer wont actually ...
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Rebuilding Windows Server 2019 Boot
I have a Windows 2019 Server that has been in service for about 8 months. It is an MSI 670P motherboard and implements a RAID10. It won't boot. Apparently there was a power failure, and the system ...
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How to put Windows 10 on a thumb drive with Ventoy to install?
As suggested, I've downloaded Ventoy and did run the shell script. It's not clear to me what "install ventoy" does, but I did install it to a USB stick. How would I then get Windows 10 ...
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Display issues on Notebook, but not in Windows
Since some time, there are some kind of screen Artifacts on my Notebook screen. From the bottom, there are around 50 rows on the screen, which do not Display the appropirate output they should(Aka the ...
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Add "Windows 10" (with Bitlocker encrypted) boot entry to GRUB [duplicate]
I have a dual boot system with Windows 10 & Ubuntu Unity 23.10.
My main system is the Ubuntu system, but from time to time i have something todo on Windows.
Currently im switching with the BIOS/...
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Force boot menu selection to always show on XPS 15 running Windows 10
I have a XPS 15 9510 with an internal SSD running Windows 10 and I also have an external SSD with Windows 10 as well.
I have already changed RAID to AHCI and I am able to switch between the two on ...
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Create bootable USB flash drives [closed]
I want to create some bootable USB flash drives as per below.
Windows 10 Legacy BIOS (MBR) Bootable MS-DOS 6.22 USB Flash Drive that boots up to a DOS prompt, has access to MS-DOS commands including ...
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Change boot device with multiple Windows 10 installations
I installed Windows 10 on 2 devices (HDD and SSD).
The first one was HDD.
Today, I can run Windows 10 on the SSD but only via the Windows boot menu that works only if I boot on HDD first.
The HDD is ...
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Why does TPM think I installed a new CPU?
I disassembled then reassembled a computer, I rebooted and got a message saying that I installed a new CPU or reset the NV structure. I don't really think I did either, there was only one RAM slot and ...
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Windows 11 won't start after uninstalling Intel RST driver
While trying to create a dual boot, I uninstalled Intel RST in the Device Manager. Big mistake, now I have a blue screen when booting my Windows 11.
I discovered later that I needed to press Ctrl+S in ...
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I am unable to write data to the hard drive and cannot backup it
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A hard drive is a solid-state drive with a 512GB SATA interface.
There are multiple partitions in hard drive A, each in sector order, used for [recovery/ESP (EFI partition)/MSR/Windows/Btrfs/...
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How to regenerate Windows boot files without being able to boot into it
So I have an EFI dual boot system with Windows and Arch, and because of some grub tomfoolery I ended up completely wiping the EFI partition and installing systemd-boot. But now I don't have any way to ...
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SSD with Windows system has become "Unlocated" on System freezing for 30 minutes and rebooting manually after giving up waiting it unfreeze
So I have KINGSTON SUV400S37120G on which I have Window 11 installed.
The system was working totally fine.
I decided to enable System Restore because it was turned off:
The screenshot from another ...
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receiving error 0xc000000e booting into Windows 10 Pro
While in Windows 10 Pro, I used 'msconfig' to change SELECTIVE STARTUP to NORMAL STARTUP. When I rebooted my PC it no longer boots into WINDOWS 10, and it receives error '0xc000000e'. I can, however, ...
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Windows 10: How to access the advanced boot menu before booting (which fails) in order to discard hibernation state and instead boot normally?
I am currently stuck in a never-ending boot sequence in Windows 10 after failing to properly shutdown due to a misbehaving USB thumb drive. How can I escape? I will explain step-by-step what happened:
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Ubuntu not showing in boot menu (Dual boot Ubuntu and Windows)
A couple of years ago, I set up my machine to dual boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu. At that time, it worked as expected and I was able to switch back and forth between Windows and Ubuntu. Today, I tried to ...
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How can I boot a live system iso on a partition of an USB drive
I am a linux and windows user, and I'm going to build up a USB drive(/dev/sda, got 3 partition already) which contains a windows PE and a linux livecd. I have got two iso files, and I'm trying a new ...
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Mouse and Keyboard not working on different HDD that I installed
Accidentally deleted windows on an hdd, so I replaced the hdd with another one that I had(already had windows). Took a while for it to boot into windows, but when it did I noticed my mouse and ...
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System booting to Windows but no monitor signal
I've been having a strange recurrent issue with a Dell G5 5090 desktop. When trying to boot my system, the computer will turn on, play the Windows start sound, and I'll even be able to navigate the ...
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windows freezing after reinstallation from parrot OS
so for a good year or so, I have been using a Debian-based distribution (parrot OS) rather than the preinstalled windows, no problems there. but then I decided to switch back to Windows as I felt it ...
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Recovering files from non-booting laptop
I have a laptop that wont boot
I want to backup some files from it before reformatting and reinstalling windows
the problem is nothing I have tried works
When windows boots the OEM logo appears with ...
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How can I find out what is causing cmd.exe to be called on startup?
Lately I've noticed that every time I boot up my computer a cmd window pops up trying to open some long-uninstalled software.
I was able to use Procmon to find out what the actual commands being ...
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Mounting a Windows 10 Base Filesystem as Read-Only?
I'm trying to create a Windows volume where the base image is mounted as read-only to prevent corruption after a sudden power loss.
Here is what I've attempted so far:
I've created a VHD file from the ...
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"'Windows To Go' can only be installed on a GPT partitioned drive if it has the FIXED attribute set" when flashing Windows To Go on drive with Rufus
When I try to flash Windows 11 To Go (technically it's not actually Windows To Go, it's like a pseudo-Windows 11 To Go (it's still Windows 11, but it's not actually Windows To Go, rather something ...
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Can't extend volume in Windows after deleting Ubuntu dual boot, and Ubuntu still shows up in boot options?
I installed Ubuntu to my second SSD (500 GB not main) as dual boot. I have now deleted it as I don't need it but whenever I try to extend the volume to the unallocated space it says there isn't enough ...
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Making a Windows USB Boot Drive on Mac, can you select a partition Style?
I need to install Windows using my USB Stick. In Rufus, different partition types (UEFI with MBR, GPT etc.) are selectable. The problem is, I have only a Macbook and none of the soft, that I used, ...
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Copying one partition at a time doesn’t result in a bootable drive. Why? How to fix?
Instead of using clone software, I wanted to copy, one at a time, each partition on my C: boot drive to a larger drive. I did this with no errors (used mini wizard to copy one at a time)
I thought it ...
