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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 ...
