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Win7 Turning on AHCI
I recently purchased a 3TB WD internal drive as a media storage. I thought this would be no problem since i have a UEFI Bios (ASRock P67 Pro3). After not being able to use any of the storage beyond ...
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How to Change/Remove UEFI Hard Disk Password
I am using an ASUS laptop running Windows 8 and have forgot a UEFI password. The password isn't essential to startup, for I have a user password and a master password. I know the user one, but I've ...
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Boot priority list empty
I have just bought a second hand Samsung Series 5 Ultratouch NP540U3C-A02UK. It has Phoenix SecureCore Tiano BIOS, version P07ABH. I bought it without a hard drive and when it arrived I installed the ...
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Hard disk does not show any Partitions during windows installation
I have a samusung laptop 365e which ive been using for over a year now, it's been working well but it started freezing all of a sudden during it execution. it then finally refused to boot but instead, ...
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Cannot boot after migrating my Windows 8.1 installation to a new drive
I want to migrate my Thinkpad X1 Carbon (2015)'s Windows 8.1 installation to a new 240GB PCIe 2.0 4x SSD. I figured that Clonezilla may work for that but cannot boot now.
Turned off SecureBoot ...
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RAID 1 accidentially booted in AHCI mode
I have two Samsung 840 EVO SSD's in RAID 1 (Asus P87-Pro and Intel Controller) with Windows 8.1 Pro on it. After a BIOS update, apparently all BIOS settings was reset, which apparently changed the ...
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Can't enable CSM mode or Fast Boot
I have an ASUS UX302LA laptop and its been working great. A little while back I was loading different OSs on it, and had to disable Fast Boot and Secure Boot Control, and enable CSM mode. After a ...
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How to boot Windows from new hard drive
I just bought a new, bigger hard drive. Currently I'm running Windows 8.1 with a 1TB hard drive. I just bought a new 3TB hard drive and installed it in my computer. Everything seems OK and Windows ...
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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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Boot from CD using UEFI instead of BIOS
I have a Lenovo IdeaPad Y510P. This is my last attempt at recovering my computer, as my recovery partitions are gone and I cannot boot into my computer otherwise. I have Windows 8 x64 OEM installed. I ...
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gigabyte z77x-d3h not recognising hdd in bios
I have sata hdd and the bios is not recognising it. The hdd works as I have plugged it into a working pc and it appears. I have formatted in NTFS and run scandisk, no errors. is there any specific ...
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Lenovo G505s and "Default Boot Device Missing or Boot Failed."
I am Using Lenovo G405s and running Windows 8 on my laptop, and whenever I turn on the laptop this error pops up -
SATA HDD : WDC WD5000LPVT-24G33T1 boot failed SATA ODD :
MATSHITA DVD-RAM ...
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How to boot from 3TB HDD?
I just bought a new HDD of 3TB (not yet shipped). I didn't know that size is normally not supported to use it to boot OS. I learned I need a computer that supports UEFI so that I can install windows ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 installation on Asrock H77M UEFI, dual boot with windows 8.1 already installed
As the title says, I need to install ubuntu in dual boot with windows 8.1 on my home PC.
I knew that with UEFI partition table was written in GPT, but I found that the partition table on my hard ...
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0xc0000225 Error on Windows Installation to GPT (UEFI)
I am attempting to install Arch linux and dual boot it with windows. As I am running a modern UEFI system, I have put my SSD (see Specs below) in GPT format (losing my original windows installation in ...
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