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SSD died after BSOD
I was playing a game on Windows 10 when I got a BSoD telling me "Critical process has died", collecting the info took incredible long so I shut the laptop down via ACPI (waited for nearly 20 minutes ...
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SATA devices not recognized by BIOS
I recently completed a build using an ASUS M5A97 R2.0 motherboard. I booted the computer for the first time, went to intall Ubuntu from a USB drive, and my HDD was not shown in the menu for ...
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Can't boot from hard drive, otherwise fine
TL;DR: Stopped being able to boot from a drive, but it appears to work otherwise, what should I do with it?
I've had a couple of Crucial SSDs since late 2011. No real issues, aside from one of them ...
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ECS Elitegroup KV2 lite 1.0 Motherboard doesn't detect SATA drive and takes forever to load BIOS
my problem is as follows:
I was connecting a (bootable) SATA hard drive to the 'ECS Elitegroup KV 2 lite 1.0'
in my friends rig, which already had two IDE hard drives (one with bootable Windows XP) ...
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Windows 7 will not boot unless I enter the BIOS or try to boot from CD
I have an amazingly confounding problem.
A friend has an HP Pavilion P6000 series computer circa 2010. Recently, a storm came through and flickered the power a few times in rapid succession. After ...
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Lots of fun problems with RAID and SATA controllers
I bought a used 3ware raid card off of ebay a few months back and set up four 1TB caviar blacks in RAID5. The hardware raid could only manage about 5MB/s writing without write caching, and I don't ...
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HDD not booting over SATA, only over USB
So today I finally restarted my computer after something like 20 days and upon booting it just froze on the Lenovo starting screen. Upon trying to fix the problem, I discovered that unplugging my ...
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Booting Ubuntu from Sata USB not working. Will it work if installed in laptop?
I have a 2016 ASUS X556UA laptop. It has a windows SSD drive installed. I connected a Ubuntu SSD via a SATA to USB drive. (It boots using this method on an even older laptop.)
Here is the BIOS boot ...
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Desktop PC with RAID won't boot
I'm trying to fix my dads PC (Windows 10) being on holiday at my parents place. He has a RAID Volume installed, built of 2 SATA discs where at least one disk seems to be corrupt - it makes an ugly ...
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Changed from AHCI to RAID and now Windows won't boot
I've got 2 SSDs, one for Windows and one for Linux Mint. I have another 4 HDDs I turned into a RAID 0 array via my BIOS. Mobo is ASUS TUF X570.
I had the 4 HDDs in a Microsoft storage pool but started ...
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Can I remove a hard disk from the boot menu?
I have two hard disks installed in my PC. When I boot up my PC and press F8 to reach the boot menu, then I am faced with three options:
1) CDROM:PM-TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-322
2) SATA:PS-ST31000524AS
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SATA M.2 drive on non NVMe enabled bios
Can you boot a SATA M.2 drive from old mainboard?
The thing is, that I don't use this SATA M.2 anymore for my drive, and wanted to put it to my NAS box.
But I know for sure, that my NAS box doesn't ...
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Boot from something other than original hard drive
I have a Dell Precision T7400 running Windows 7, BIOS version A02. Windows 7 is stored between 2 1TB SATA hard drives.
I recently obtained some SATA drives with another OS, but I cannot boot from ...
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Odd "Non System Disk..." Error
I found a number of similar questions covering this, but didn't find anything that was a very close match. If I missed something, I'm sorry, and I'm more than happy to check that out.
I have an HP ...
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HDD works when plugged in via USB SATA, but not internal SATA?
I have a client's laptop HDD that will boot (slowly) to Windows 10 if plugged in with my USB to SATA adapter connector, but won't boot if plugged directly into the standard on-board hard drive bay of ...
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