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Windows couldn't be installed on current drive
I'll try to install Windows 10, 64 bit, 1703 on my despktop but got next error:
Windows couldn't be installed on the current location. Check the station. Next is happen: 0x80300024.
The ...
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Upgrade a laptop's harddrive to ssd [duplicate]
I intended to upgrade my laptop's harddrive to ssd. I bought a 120 GB ssd.
I used Casper software to copy my current OS (Windows 10) to the ssd. I copied the system drive (C) to the ssd.
When I ...
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Win 10 & Win 7, separate drives, uefi; Booting from USB
I'm a novice user. I've struggled with topics like eufi,gpt,grub etc.
I want to remove/add drives into my box without things getting screwed up when the drive with WinBootLoader has been removed or ...
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PUIS - Power Up In Standby - correct useage for HDD windows 10
I am currently reconfiging a windows 10 pc. Some of the drives have jumpers for PUIS
This would work great for me to keep power and heat down when not needed and to stop all the drives booting up at ...
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WD 6TB Black Internal Drive
Preamble: I don't know much about hardware (please keep this in mind).
So I bought a 6TB WD Black internal drive and I have 2 issues with it.
Partition - it looks like I can only utilize the 2TB ...
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How to boot on a new hard drive copied from a old drive?
I copied an entire SATA HDD (sector by sector) onto a new SATA HDD which has the same size. On my new HDD, I found all partitions (OS, Diags, Recovery, ESP) and files, but my computer (DELL) using ...
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boot laptop using hardware encrypted drive from another laptop
I have dell e6230 with a hardware encrypted drive running linux.
Due to a problem with the old laptop, I installed the drive to another e6230,
but the new laptop will not recognize the drive during ...
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No boot device found after disabling legacy mode from BIOS
I am using HP 15-n215tu.
I want to install Windows 8 in UEFI mode currently it is running on legacy mode.
I tried to update BIOS but after update asap it restarts again it shifts to legacy mode. So, ...
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Is it possible to remove hard drive without removing the cable?
Is it possible to remove a hard drive disk without removing the cable(s) (in my case, through UEFI) and without the operating system "trying" to display in "My PC" or something? If so, how can I do ...
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Relationship between MBR / GPT / UEFI and their limitations
I have a situations where i have to decide to use MBR or GTP and UEFI.
I've read too many articles on internet, but I'm confused about some things :
I've read that MBR does not support drives with ...
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Do I have to have my OS installed with UEFI to convert my system HDD from MBR to GPT without data loss?
So as of right now I have a PC with a BIOS-only mainboard (Gigabyte 775 - GA-P35-DS3) with which I installed Windows 10 64bit on my 4TB hard drive with MBR.
Now I'd like to buy a new mainboard with ...
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Configuring UEFI dual BIOS to boot from SSD and access a secondary HDD
Up until recently I've been happily running a (pre-built) Windows 7 Pro box with the following:
Gigabyte Z77-D3H motherboard (UEFI Dual BIOS, vF19b)
Crucial M4 SSD (120Gb boot drive)
Western Digital ...
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Shuttle SZ87R6 with 3x SSHD 2TB hard drives doesn't boot
Hardware:
1x Shuttle SZ87R6 with 500W power supply
1x Intel i7-4790
4x G.Skill 8GB, DDR3-1600, CL10-10-10-30 (F3-12800CL10S-8GBXL)
1x Samsung SSD 850 Evo 250 GB (With linux openSuSE 13.2)
3x Seagate ...
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Acer E1-510 doesn't recognize thumbdrives or hard drives
I had a hard drive failure in this laptop, and both hard drives I've put in it show up in BIOS, but do not show up in the boot menu. The thumb drives don't show up in either BIOS or the boot menu.
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CentOS 7: How to support a 3tb, 4tb, or 5tb drive, as a single partition, without UEFI
My CentOS 7 server is running on a system that is non-UEFI and I need to clone a 500GB HD to a 5TB HD to be used as the new boot drive. What is the cheapest, least time-consuming option to support ...
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