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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
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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 ...
