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The computer sees no HDD
UEFI doesn't see the internal HDD. I've tried to perform tests via UEFI settings, it says all devices are alright. Could it be caused by wrong/corrupt partitioning or is it a hardware problem.
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Secondary Internal HDD Vanishes/Reappears Randomly In Windows 8.1
To clarify, I'm referring to entire disks disappearing, not just partitions. The PC in question is an HP Pavilion 2325DX. Both drives are variants of HGST. One is in the primary slot, the other is in ...
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Do hard drives need a GUID partition table (GPT) to boot in UEFI mode?
Is EFI booting something hardware specific? I have a desktop motherboard with a UEFI Bios, but I can only boot from USB drives in "UEFI" mode. Both the DVD drive and the HDD's (a RAID 0 array) boot ...
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Windows 10 restore failed, laptop unusable
My Dell Inspiron 15 7559 was working fine, but since it is 5 years old I tried to restore Microsoft Windows to factory settings, however, the process failed and now I cannot access Windows anymore.
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Is it ok to boot into UEFI every time?
I have a hard drive S.M.A.R.T check error showing up on boot, forcing me to boot into UEFI every time. I have backed up all the data on my drive and I want to use the dive as long as it lasts, not ...
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Internal storage showing up as external
I've modified my registry (TreatAsInternal), which hasn't done the trick. Windows still thinks my drive is removable, and therefor is preventing me from updating builds as that can't be done on ...
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Can't install Windows 7 with UEFI off on GPT drive
I need to have a dual boot with Ubuntu and Windows 7 on my notebook with UEFI. I had to turn UEFI off to install and boot Ubuntu.
Now I'm trying to install Windows 7, but it says it can't be ...
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bcdedit issue? M.2 SATA to NVME clone: Windows 10 won't boot
Problem: Windows partition won't boot after cloning M.2 SATA drive to M.2 NVME.
Background: Cloning process was simple raw dd copy. Drive had EFI, Windows 10, and Linux partitions. Cloning preserved ...
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GPT disk not recognized by firmware
My motherboard is BIOSTAR H81MHv3, its BIOS/UEFI/Firmware/Whatever is Aptio Setup Utility Version 2.15.1231 Copyright (C) 2012 American Megatrends, Inc.
I have four disks, all Seagate Hard Disk Drives:...
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HDD doesn't boot despite being recognized on bios (uefi)
The only thing I did was disconnect physically the HDD(with the pc off of course) to check some info like the rpm, vendor, etc, but then I forgot to reconnect it and when I turned on my pc it only ...
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Move EFI System Partition to another drive
I had a Windows 8 installation on an HDD, using UEFI as boot. The HDD has the following GPT table:
DISKPART> list partition
Partizione ### Tipo Dim. Offset
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Unable to Boot into other Hard drive
I have 2 drives in my windows laptop, one is HDD and another one is SSD.
Initially I installed Windows on the main Hard disk and after few months I bought an SSD (lets call this SSD1) and installed ...
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How to convert from EFI to MBR boot loader (and / or GPT disk to MBR disk) in Arch Linux without losing data
I've installed arch linux on my disk sdc,where sdc1 is the efi partition and sdc2 the root partition. I'm also trying to boot this installation with esxi 7,but it seems that it refuses to boot because ...
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Can I securely erase a HDD larger than 2TB on a laptop without UEFI support?
I would like to securely erase a WD 6TB HDD.
The problem is that the only computer I have access to in the house which can run uninterrupted (for the 2.5 days I estimate this will take) is a 2009 ...
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How do I format disk from UEFI shell?
I need to format 2 disks from pre-built UEFI shell.
So I have 2 questions.
How do I format a disk from UEFI Shell?
How do I know what is the disk name or label?
By the way, in the first question I ...
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