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Create a bootable Windows 10 USB drive (UEFI) from Linux
How can I create a bootable Windows 10 USB drive from Linux ?
Please note:
WinUSB doesn't work with Windows 10.
UNetbootin doesn't work either.
dd method didn't work as well.
Beside this, I've ...
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How to install Windows 10 without using external media
Is there any way to create a partition on my drive and use it to boot and install another system on the same drive as if it was a bootable USB, for example?
My scenario: I have one single drive in ...
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Stuck with grub rescue and can't enter in BIOS
I have dual boot with Windows 10 and Ubuntu and I've deleted Ubuntu and now I'm stuck with error: no such partition. Entering rescue mode... grub rescue> I read that I have to enter in BIOS ...
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unable to install GRUB in dummy on debian stretch in DELL PRECISION 5510
I am trying do dual-boot my Dell Precision 5510 (1TB PCIe SSD), that came with windows 10, adding Debian stretch.
First, I have disabled fast startup of windows and then and disabled secure boot. ...
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Ubuntu not showing in boot menu (Dual boot Ubuntu and Windows)
A couple of years ago, I set up my machine to dual boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu. At that time, it worked as expected and I was able to switch back and forth between Windows and Ubuntu. Today, I tried to ...
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Boot a physical disk with EFI in VirtualBox Ubuntu 18.04 host
I used to use legacy BIOS booting on this machine to dual-boot Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 10 across three hard drives. I used GRUB to boot to Ubuntu on an SSD and HDD combo and Windows 10 on it's own ...
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Can't boot from NVMe PCIe card + M.2 drive [duplicate]
Installed an NVMe PCIe card and 1TB M.2 drive on an older desktop (Sabretooth 990FX mobo + AMD FX-8320 CPU). The drive is seen by Linux and Windows, and I can read/write to it. The problem I have is ...
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Lenovo ThinkPad P51 won't boot into Windows or USB live Linux, but boots into BIOS fine,
My Lenovo ThinkPad P51 won't boot into Windows or USB live Linux this morning, but boots into BIOS fine. It sees the SSD and Live Ubuntu USB on the boot menu. It's in an endless boot loop if trying to ...
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Bootable Windows USB UEFI and GPT table
I have an Windows 10 iso
I have an SD card with an SD card reader (basically a slow pen drive)
I have created an GPT partition table on the pen drive* with one partition of full space.I have copied ...
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Windows entry missing in grub after MXLinux update (Dual-Boot)
I recently updated my MX21 to MX23 using this guide( https://mxlinux.org/wiki/system/upgrading-from-mx-21-to-mx-23-without-reinstalling/ ), but now the Windows entry is missing in the Grub start up ...
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I messed with my laptops EFI Boot Manager, now I can’t boot into anything
I have an Acer Predator G9-791. I erased Windows 10 in order to install ElementaryOS. I was having issues with EOS booting, so I followed some guides that showed how to use boot-repair, edit the ...
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Shutdown Windows 10 truly for a dual booting system
It seems that "Shut down" in Windows 10 actually means "Shut down and hibernate". This has caused my NTFS partitions cannot be automatically loaded on Linux (Ubuntu 16.04) on my dual-booting laptop. ...
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Does Windows have something like journald on Linux?
I have a Windows 10 installed as main OS on a machine. When I installed it fresh it would boot in like 5 seconds, but as time passed and new updates got installed, the boot times became slower and ...
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Is it possible to install windows 10 on VHD/VHDX and boot from it on Linux Mint?
Is it possible to boot Windows from a VHD file that is stored on a Linux partition?
I don't want to run Windows under VirtualBox. Linux is the only OS on the hard drive, and Windows should only exist ...
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Grub bootloader not loading when windows boot manager is first option in boot order
I have windows and linux mint dual boot on a single SSD.
When I keep windows boot manager the first place in boot order, the GRUB bootloader doesn't appear at all. It directly boots me into windows.
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Manjaro Linux randomly fails to mount /boot/efi
A few months ago I started getting errors when trying to boot my Manjaro i3 Linux. It is completely random. Sometimes it boots from first time; sometimes it requires several restarts before it goes ...
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Dual Boot issue with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16 on Asus GT 703G laptop
Aim:
I wanted to make it dual boot with Ubuntu 16 and Windows 10. Complete system specs are shown in the screenshot below.
The things I tried:
Based on various blogs particularly this.
The major ...
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How to add Windows 10 to grub boot loader?
I have installed Windows 10
I have installed Linux Mint Silvia and I have chosen a device for boot loader installation - sda.
There is not Windows 10 in grub menu when the system starts
I have booted ...
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Windows inaccessible after NVMe ssd upgrade, but grub and Linux partition work fine
I have an Asus ROG Scar II Strix that had the stock 512gb NVMe ssd, which I have upgraded to a Crucial 4TB PCIe 3.0 M.2 ssd. On the original ssd, I five partitions, which I have cloned onto the new ...
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Not able to boot from Windows USB on Ubuntu
I'm trying to install Windows 10 on a laptop running Ubuntu.
But the problem is, it's not booting from the USB.
Details:
Tried formatting USB drive as FAT and NTFS.
It get's detected in BIOS menu, so ...
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Stuck in emergency mode (Ubuntu) after Windows 10 reinstall
After reinstalling Windows 10, I am now unable to boot into Ubuntu 22.04.
The message displayed right after the boot failure is the following:
Right afterwards, I entered maintenance mode and typed ...
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Grub latching-entry / booting Windows directly with Grub
I have a rather complicated setup. On my PC I have a combination of 2 Linux Distros as well as 2 Windows Installs. I use this to split the different things I do to different versions of OS such that I ...
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Cannot install Windows 10/Zorin on eMMC drive | Acer Aspire One Cloudbook 14 (AO1-431-C8KZ)
I got this Cloudbook from a friend and it's been impossible to install Windows 10/Zorin on its 32 GB eMMC drive. It's not detected by the Windows installer on UEFI boot mode, and on Legacy boot it ...
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WoeUSB error when writing to disk
I'm getting this error when I try to write a Windows 10 ISO file onto my 32GB USB:
Installation failed!
Exit code: 256
Log:
WoeUSB v3.3.1
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Mounting source filesystem...
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Arch Linux boots differently from internal DVD drive than external USB?
To begin with the original problem, I am locked out of my Dell laptop. It happened following my previous question.
What happened is, I updated the BIOS via the Dell update utility. After reboot, Dell ...
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How to make my win 11 bootable
Here is my situation:
I inherited a machine that has already fully used the 4 Primary partitions:
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1 * 2048 1026047 ...
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Can’t boot from USB on Windows tablet
I have a Windows tablet ZTE W105 that I want to install Linux on. The tablet finds the USB stick but when I boot from it nothing happens, it just restarts and returns to Windows. I have tried changing ...
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Dual boot on separate drives won't work
I've Windows 10 installed on my SSD (Disk 0 in image) and my goal was to install Linux on the HDD (disk 1) to boot the device with either of the OS via grub loader.
I installed Linux on the HDD, ...
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How do I install Linux as a third OS alongside Windows 7 and Windows 10?
I currently have dual-boot with Windows 7 and Windows 10, although I'm not sure they boot correctly.
If I previously booted Windows 7, the next boot I get a black & white, DOS-looking boot menu. ...
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No GRUB option to boot CentOS
There is only "System Setup" boot option in CentOS 8 Stream GRUB.
I was using Dual Boot Windows 10 and CentOS Stream 8. I don't know what is problem. This happened since I booted into ...
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Dual boot with Linux and Windows 10
Currently I have Windows 10 installed on a SSD; now I'm about to add a new SSD and I want to install Ubuntu Mate on it.
As far I understand the Grub will make a dual boot in this second SSD so the ...
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How to boot back into Linux after Windows 10 install
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On this computer I had Windows 7 installed. I accidentally broke it, so I installed Linux Mint (since Linux is free and I didn't want to pay for Windows). Recently I was able to install ...
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I deleted Windows' system boot partition using GParted
I have 2 drives. When I was switching from a HDD drive to an SSD drive a "boot menu" with 2 Windows systems (and one of them not working) popped up while booting Windows.
Today I wanted to ...
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Trying to install Linux without USB/DVD
I want to install Linux on my laptop (UEFI, Windows 10). This is proving quite difficult. I've seen similar questions, but those are for Windows 7 and below.
My computer lacks a DVD drive, I can't ...
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Dual-Boot system with Ubuntu cannot access Windows 10 (grub update and boot-repair not working)
I've recently entered in possess of a desktop computer with Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 10. Booting it, it will immediately start Ubuntu and I'm currently not able to log in into windows. I've already ...
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How to encrypt a dual boot system with Veracrypt?
I want to dual boot Windows 10 alongside Arch Linux on 1 SSD. The SSD is 465GB and I want to use Veracrypt to encrypt the hard drive and enable pre-boot authentication.
I haven't attempted to do this ...
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Boot to two different systems (including hardware) from a single drive
I've been using a SSD with Windows 10 which boots in UEFI/GPT mode on my laptop. For a while I decided to switch to my desktop PC which has no SSD of it's own. In order to improve responsiveness of ...
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Multiple bootable OS in primary partition
I have a primary partition in kali linux. Now, I want to install Windows 10 also. I have a primary partition
Kali Linux is still in the partition. I have a bootable USB. Now, I want to install ...
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Booting from USB stick always boots to main SSD drive
I had two partitions with dual boot Windows/Linux (Manjaro). I also had Linux bootloader to choose which OS to start. I wanted to try some other Linux distribution so I have deleted my previous Linux ...
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I’ve created a bootable Windows 10 USB Drive, but my desktop will not load it
I followed a tutorial online to create a bootable Windows 10 USB drive on Linux, but it does not boot when I choose it from the boot menu. I’ve been waiting for a while, hoping it just had to load, ...
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USB bootable drive preventing me to access BIOS
I have a Thomson-branded netbook that has a microSD card as unique storage area. The SD shows 58.xx GB of disposable space.
There was a Windows 10 instance I wanted to wipe in order to restaure my own ...
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Deleted Linux Partition , Stuck on grub rescue , Cannot load any OS
I installed Fedora on my computer by freeing up 20GB from the E drive in Windows 10 . But i realised that i didn't like the interface much , so i went back to windows disk management and noticed that ...
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Can i do a file based backup of a Windows 10 system partition on a UEFI system?
I'm dualbooting Windows 10 and Linux Mint.
Is it possible to do a file based backup of the Windows System Partition using Linux?
UEFI is already entirely file based and not bound to the MBR of the ...
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Cannot boot from bootable Windows USB
I have Ubuntu 20.04 installed and I want to dual boot Windows 10. I downloaded the official ISO and flashed it using dd. The ISO was correctly flashed and verified with MD5. The dd command was:
sudo ...
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Windows requires automatic repair after installing Ubuntu
I installed Ubuntu along Windows 10 with default option. Now Windows doesn't boot any longer and offers the automatic repair. I guess I should have disabled fast boot before, which I didn't.
I am ...
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Can't access content in secondary drive partition after installing Manjaro Linux
I'm going through this problem for some time now, bit more than a month.
I am not a Linux user, I was installing it to learn it. I have two HD's in my note, I had Windows installed in a SSD and used a ...
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Booting Windows on centOS
Obviously just plugging a bootable Windows 10 USB drive on it doesn't cause centOS to open that drive and show me the Windows 10 install GUI like it would on another OS. However, I'm done with centOS ...
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Why my pc doesn't display the boot menu to choose an OS when I start the pc? [duplicate]
I originally had a Windows OS and I wanted to also have a Linux OS. So I added Ubuntu in dual boot with Windows. However, when I start my pc, it doesn't display the boot menu and goes on the Windows ...
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How to reset Windows 10 installation without losing grub
Is there a way to reset windows 10 installation without affecting other oses? I have one windows 10, and two linuxes (Ubuntu 20.04 and 16.04). I was planning on using windows recovery option->...
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Dual boot - tried to mount Windows drive on Ubuntu 20, failed, now Windows won't boot
I installed Ubuntu on my laptop today in place of Mint. I was able to boot the Windows drive under Mint, but it failed in Ubuntu with the error described in this page.
However, when I tried to start ...
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