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Can I boot Windows 10 installed on a SATA SSD/HDD from USB3 via SATA to USB adapter?
First of all I'm not trying to clone.
I just have a laptop with a dead internal SATA port. The drive is still alive and I want to boot via a USB3 adapter.
It gets part way through the boot when it ...
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Centos 4.8 not booting after replacement disk controller
I have a quite old Centos 4.8 backup. Root partition is on LVM. (/dev/mapper/centos-root).
This backup (tar.gz archive) works fine if i restore it in Vmware cluster with SCSI controller.
But now i ...
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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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Partial boot after replacing SATA controller
I am just a hobbyist who has had pretty good success dealing with computer issues by finding good instructions, following them and researching troubleshooting when something didn't work. So when an ...
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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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BIOS doesn't recognize internal HDD connected through a SATA to USB adapter
BIOS(or motherboard firmware), doesn't recognize internal HDD connected through a SATA to USB adapter
I have two computers, a tower and a laptop.
I usually use a laptop but recently, in addition to ...
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HDDs don't boot via SATA, but boot via USB
Can't boot any HDD via SATA cables in the mobo, but can boot via USB.
I have tested now three hard drives at this point, all of them do not
boot on SATA, but all of them boots via SATA switcher to ...
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INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE M.2 SATA
I'm absolutely at my wits' end with this issue: I'm getting INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE when cloning a M.2 SATA SSD to an NVMe one. I can always format and reinstall Windows but nevertheless, I would ...
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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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Windows 10 very long SessionInit phase
I have recently upgraded my cpu (ryzen 1600 -> ryzen 3600) and added a 3tb hard drive to my PC. First couple of boots were normal, but now I am getting 10-20 minute boot times and I can't find the ...
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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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Sata drives not recognized in BIOS after motherboard change
I just changed out the motherboard, CPU and PSU in my desktop, and now no sata drives are being recognized on system boot. I have double checked the connections, and both the data and power cables are ...
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Moving Windows 10 installation to another drive
There are a lot of questions like this, but given the specific circumstances I am adding this one as a new question as there are some specific issues that need to be tackled.
The steps that got me to ...
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My new Western Digital Blue 2TB shows "Reboot and Select Proper Boot Device or Insert Boot Media in Selected Boot Device and Press a Key" error
I just got my new Western Digital Blue 2TB 3D NANDA SATA 3.0 SSD but whenever I tried to run the PC into the Windows login screen, it always shows the terminal which reads "Reboot and Select Proper ...
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