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New Install, Win 8.1 Access over 2 TB
new install, Z87 pro MB, Win 8.1 64 bit, UEFI based.
I have 2 TB drives, configured in a RAID 1+0 config, so end result is approx 4TB useable, and windows shows this. The problem is that while I can ...
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Migrate Windows 8.1 from HDD to SSD Error
I’m trying to migrate my Notebook HDD (Asus q550lf-bbi7t07 with Windows 8.1 OEM) to my new SSD drive (SSD Intel 530 Series 240Gb).
I tried to clone the original drive to SSD drive with many tools:
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Does there exist a native UEFI disk/partition manager?
UEFI has the infrastructure to support complex applications at boot-time. One of the most urgent needs of the hour is a UEFI application for GPT disk management.
A lot of partition management cannot ...
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Linux on external drive / UEFI
I'm stuck on a problem : I want to make my external USB3 HDD self bootable.
For now I must go through UEFI boot option.
Explaination of my setup:
I have a Win8 Asus Laptop with UEFI.
I have ...
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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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Windows boot manager and two hard disks
here's my situation: I had an HDD with Windows 8 installed (UEFI mode). I bought a SSD and wanted to do a clean install of Windows, so I thought that disabling the HDD and leaving the SSD as the only ...
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System does not boot from SSD after re-installation
I have an ASUS S56CM with UEFI firmware, x64, Windows 8.
Core i3 processor
500 GB HDD (496 GB and 4 GB marked as boot)
24 GB SSD (18 GB and 4 GB marked as OEM partition)
4 GB RAM
The system used to ...
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How do I boot a MBR [FAT(32)/NTFS] USB HDD from EFI without legacy bios?
I am using my external HDD for backups, but for restore you need to boot into the specific software's "restore mode/utility" which is often an CD image, but I preffer to not use CD's and just use USB ...
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3TB hard disk displayed as 746GB
in BIOS , UEFI Boot is enabled , ACHI Mode is selected , and the 3TB Hard disk (Seagate ST30000DM001) is installed at SATA Port 3.
However, in Windows 7 64-bit, 3TB hard disk is displayed as 746GB, ...
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Driveimage XML : unable to retrieve drive layout
DriveImage fails to execute "Drive to Drive" operation. Since the 1TB hard disk is dying, I decided to move the System Drive to newly bought HDD.
It said, unable to retrieve drive layout.
The source ...
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How to install UEFI BIOS?
I have bought Seagate Barracuda 3tb hard drive. When I start to install windows 8 x64 on that it tells me that
Windows cannot be installed on this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition ...
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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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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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How can I add a second hard drive to a previously configured UEFI/ACHI Windows 8 machine?
Recently purchased a new Windows 8 PC.
It came with one hard drive.
I want to a second hard drive to it. This second hard drive is my data hard drive from my previous computer.
However, I have run ...
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Ubuntu 12.04/12.10 can't detect windows or any other partitions(Asus z77 UEFI BIOS)
I've recently completed tinkering my new pc(motherboard ASUS z77 with UEFI BIOS) and unfortunately not everything works quite well.
After installing windows 7 ultimate on a single primary partition(...
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