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Boot linux kernel 5.8.6-1 with manjaro x64 gets stuck at bios screen
I dual boot windows and manjaro. Last night I suddenly could not log in to manjaro kernel 5.8.6-1 anymore (the boot got stuck at the MSI-logo) but had to go to advanced options and choose 5.7.19-2 and ...
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Fix Windows 10 Automatic repair not working
So two days ago my Lenovo laptop instead of booting Windows 10 just showed a black screen. I shut it down and rebooted into Ubuntu. I tried to run ntfsfix on my Windows partition, it didn't find any ...
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Virtual Private Server of Windows 10 ready up application before logon
I do like the feature that my laptop windows 10 ready up my startup application just before login.
Features from - Use sign-in info to automatically finish setting up my device and reopen my apps ...
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Windows Boot PreSessionInit time up to 50sec -struggling to find reason
I got new Dell XPS 9300 and out of the box boot time was around 45sec to see logon screen.
I started looking and it looks like I am not the only one who has a problem with this model and boot time. ...
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Boot from new SSD drive
I just installed a new 1TB SSD drive on an older Dell XPS 8700.
When I boot up, the drive does not appear. But going in to Disk Management, I see it, and I can intialize it.
But what I'd like to do ...
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Double win10 installs - both bitlocker protected and isolated
Hardware:
AMD Ryzen processor, ASUS Crosshair Hero VI mb, no TPM installed
M.2 Samsung 960 PRO SSD
SATA Samsung 840 PRO SSD
I would like to have latest win10 2004 on both SSDs and isolated from one ...
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Boot Failed - Windows Boot Manager IBM Server x3400 M3
I recently purchased an old IBM System X3400 M3 server, however, after installing Windows, I get an error message saying Boot Failed Windows Boot Manager and have tried multiple solutions suggested ...
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Cloned windows will not boot
Windows startup repair is not effective
bootrec /scanos finds 1 installation
bootrec /fixmbr returns success status
bootrec /fixboot says access denied
bootrec /rebuildbcd finds 1 installation
If I ...
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Two active partitions on Windows 10 - wont boot if one is removed
I am running a 64-bit version of Windows 10. Yesterday my system experienced boot error 0xc00000f.
I tried to solve the error by creating a Windows ISO media USB stick and repair the boot file as ...
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All programs non-responsive after hibernation in Windows 7
I'm having issues waking my Windows 7, 64 bit system from hibernation. Here's what happened and what I've tried to solve the issue:
have been successfully hibernating and waking this PC for many ...
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Combining GRUB chainloader with loopback from ISO on UEFI
I've been trying to setup grub on an external drive to boot Ubuntu and Windows live-cd images directly from iso files.
So far I've encountered an older answer (https://superuser.com/a/1355605) ...
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Windows 10 unable to boot
A few days ago I could not update Windows on the W.T.G (win-to-go) . Since then I have been unable to boot from my notebook nor WTG. The notebook continues to boot without messages.
I can not work on ...
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Making switching between Ubuntu and Windows faster
Do you know a way to make switching between Windows and Linux faster?
I have a dual boot set-up were I am using Ubuntu as a dev environment and that's great l!
But unfortunately I also need Skype for ...
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Dual boot issue on system with a SSD and an HDD
I recently bought a new HP ProBook with:
Intel i7 Processor,
8 GB RAM,
120 GB SSD,
1 TB HDD.
Windows 10 Pro...
...pre-installed on the SSD which is C:, the system partition.
And there are two ...
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bcdedit - Dynamically dual-boot Windows and Linux
For the last couple of days I am searching for an answer, but I constantly run into brick walls.
I want to create a bootable USB with a custom Linux-based OS (for the sake of this conversation, let's ...
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How to dual boot two windows 10 installations while restricting file acess and maintain the ability to easily boot?
I have 2 ssd's on my laptop, both of them with different windows 10 instalations. My problem is that I wanted to use one of them for my "less secure programs" but the fact that I can have acess to ...
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Windows 10 2+ minute boot SSD
Some few months ago boot times went crazy slow so I debugged it alot and tried dozen fixes and what-not but still no success.
I saw that printer drivers were getting hung up so I removed them as well,...
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Asus SW5-012 trying to do dual boot Linux
I have an Asus Aspire SW5-012 and cannot disable secure boot.
I get into BIOS just fine. It's 5.0 setup utility. The system BIOS version is V1.13. When I go to the security tab, secure boot mode is ...
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I purchased E580 and can't get it to boot after installing windows 7
My computer came with only DOS, so I installed windows 7 from bootable USB. The process went smooth until the 1st reboot after installation finished. It gets BSOD and is caught in a loop of resetting ...
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Windows 10 extremely slow boot from shut down or restart, not hibernate
I have a dual booted windows 10 and ubuntu 16.04, Asus republic of gamers, GL753V, one of the best gaming laptops, Windows OS is installed on SSD.
After selecting windows from grub menu, I see ...
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Windows error 0xc0000428 error from boot
I am not 100% sure what OS is at this time but I believe Windows 10 Home OS on the laptop. I get this error in a bluescreen right from boot with no other information other than the code.
After ...
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How to remove GRUB from Windows 7
Someone really messed up the build machine here. Looks like they tried putting ubuntu on it, failed, and left it all porked up. And I cant figure out how to fix it. I do not have a windows disk but ...
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Deleting 2 items from Programs: Dell laptop, Windows 10 after startup message
Everytime I startup my laptop, I get this popup:
Deleting 2 items from Programs
and it also says:
TouchPad Options 1000 bytes
I went to CCleaner and, in Tools-> Startup, I stopped the program ...
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Lenovo Ideapad 700 15ISK: How do I enable booting from CD/DVD and USB drives?
I want to install Ubuntu on my laptop which is on a bootable DVD
How can I enable booting from DVD and start to install Ubuntu ?
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Remove the grub menu after removing Windows dual boot
I have a Spectre x360 laptop, one which I had dual boot of Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04.
I followed online to remove Windows, which was a success. However, the options to boot Ubuntu or Windows still ...
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Windows 10 BSOD Inaccessible Boot Device -> dism.exe /remove-package -> Files lost in documents folder
My father in law got the Windows 10 BSOD Inaccessible Boot Device error. I tried with the normal CHKDSK /R etc but it would not work. I then found this thread:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...
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Why can't I boot Antergos anymore after I booted Windows? (no normal dualboot)
This is not a normal dual boot question.
my setup:
I have two SSDs, both are plugged in with a SATA data cable to my motherboard. The power cables however, are physically interupted with two ...
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Can you combine windows to go and linux on a stick?
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On my vocational training school there are 2 turns, and the morning ones always break the computers, so I started to carry a virtual machine on an hdd, in order to avoid problems (I have a ...
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Dual Boot Windows on 2 different drives
My main system (Windows 7 UEFI) is on a SSD. I have a 2nd GPT hard drive I use for backup that is not plugged to the computer.
After unplugging the SATA cable of the SSD, I installed Windows 10 UEFI ...
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Win10 eliminating / reduce Post-Boot time for faster start into a program?
For a project I'm optimizing the time it takes for Windows 10 (Ent 64bit LTSB (1607)) to boot and start a specific program.
One of my main problems is what appears to be a longer post-boot pause, ...
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