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How to install Ubuntu bootloader on a particular disk?
I have an SSD (Samsung MZVL....) and an HDD (WDC WD10S.....) on my computer (Lenovo ideapad). Mostly, I use Windows, which is installed on the SSD, but sometimes I need Ubuntu too. My scheme until ...
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What's the difference between EFI booting a USB versus a hard disk?
Can you please tell me the difference between EFI booting a USB and EFI booting a hard drive, as wheen installing a Linux image on the USB using Rufus, it's booting, but when the same image is ...
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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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Macbook Pro is NOT showing up Bootable USB Drive
System: Macbook Pro 2019, Intel, T2 Chip, 16 GB RAM, No USB port (Using VIVA USB hub), Ventura 13.6.5
Issue: The bootable USB drive (EFI) is not showing up when restarting with 'Option' key
I had ...
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UEFI boot is disabled, disabling Legacy boot does not work
On my computer, I enabled Legacy boot to use older operating systems (even though I did not install any). A few weeks later, I could not find UEFI boot on my hard drive. I get "Notebook Hard Drive" is ...
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Black screen when accessing the UEFI firmware settings using a specific SSD
I'm trying to access my UEFI firmware settings to change the main boot directory to GRUB on my SSD (Windows is on the HDD), however whenever I try to launch the UEFI firmware settings, I'm met with a ...
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Boot option showing 2x HDD with same name when I only have 1x SSD installed in my notebook
I have installed Pop OS on the only SSD I have in my laptop, but when I enter boot options, I see two HDD devices with the same name - is this normal? Did encrypting the SSD during the OS installation ...
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Lenovo ThinkBook - HDD Password : Frozen
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I received a laptop from my work and then was allowed to just keep it. They asked for it back to wipe the data etc and then gave back to me.
I decided to reset it just so it's all mine.
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What is "launch efi shell from filesystem device" from the boot manager?
Im trying to boot my laptop from my USB Flash drive with its USB Legacy disabled and the internal Hard Drive has no Operating system (clean). After i entered the "launch efi shell from filesystem ...
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Cloned Windows 10 won't boot
Issue: Windows 10 clones to same disk/different SSD won't boot.
Why: I've got a M.2 NVMe with the following structure:
300 MB Recovery Partition
100 MB EFI System Partition
Windows 8.1
Unallocated ...
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Wipe UEFI hard drive
I would like to completely wipe my hard drive but I can't achieve it because it's an UEFI hard drive so :
- DBAN won't work;
- I can't use tools such as HDDErase because I can't boot from FreeDOS ...
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What should be the content of the first sector in a UEFI system with GPT partitions?
As i understand, in UEFI machines there is no MBR/VBR code, and the UEFI firmware directly gives control to the OS boot loader (.efi file).
My question is, what should be first sector of such system ...
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EFI/boot partition no longer recognized by UEFI/BIOS
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I have my laptop that was dual-boot, one M.2 SSD for each machine (Windows and Arch Linux) and everything worked as it should. I bought a new higher capacity drive for my Windows machine,...
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How to properly replace disk RAID1 with uefi boot
im facing situation when i need to replace hdd with uefi boot. Never done before. Standard procedure with legacy boot (MBR) is okay but im not sure how to do that when UEFI is on server.
Server have 2 ...
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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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