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Can't format my usb flash from bootable to normal
A few weeks ago I decided to format my PC as it wasn't working very well.
Since I didn't have any Windows 7 on disk I decided to use my USB flash drive to do that.
So I made it bootable and formated ...
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Can't boot windows 10 usb key
I have a laptop (DELL XPS p11f) and can't boot on a Windows 10 USB key though I can boot on a Windows 7 USB key. Both keys were created with Rufus 3.5 with the same physical key. I was able to boot ...
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Trying to system restore my machine (HP G72 Notebook) to factory condition
My computer is a HP G72 Notebook PC with dual core.
OS: Windows 7 Home Edition
I don't have the Admin id password and I am trying to do a factory reset.
When I restart the machine and hit ESC, I see ...
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Windows 7 looping in repair mode
After a power outage one week ago, my Windows 7 always enter the repair tool and fails to repair everytime. Everytime I try to boot using windows (dual-boot with Debian stretch), it just repeats the ...
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Possible alternatives to dual-booting and virtualization?
I am primarily a Linux user (Linux Mint). I am also a college student at an online school. My school requires that I install a remote access client (LogMeIn or GoToMeeting) so they can proctor me ...
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New system drive boots fine but issues with Win7 backup, etc
I've decided to post here to see if anyone has any ideas about this before I go any further.
Recently I installed a new SSD drive to replace my old SSD drive as the Windows system/C: drive. After a ...
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How does MSConfig determine which services are from Microsoft?
I'm trying to automate the process of clean booting a computer. To do so I need to know which services are part of Windows and which services are 3rd party.
MSConfig is used in Microsoft's ...
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PC won't identify Linux Live USB. "non-system disk or disk error replace and strike any key when ready"
I installed Mint 19.1 Cinnamon and it was working poorly. The USB port were not identifying flash drives. I tried lots and lots of things (really, lots of possibilities), but nothing worked. Then I ...
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SSD Boot disk error
This is more just a general question about troubleshooting, as I think I know the answer already, but the behavior is a little odd so here goes...
I have two 60gb SSDs striped together (for more ...
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My computer won't boot, and I don't have another device to install usb repair tools
So, I recently uninstalled Linux on my Hp Elitebook 8570p. It came installed with Windows 7, so, I booted into windows 7 to delete the Linux partition. When I restarted my computer, it won't start! I ...
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Laptop will POST but not fully boot, reading too much RAM?
I'm currently 'furbishing an HP 630 laptop running Windows 7 Pro Service Pack 1. It has two slots for RAM and uses type DD3L-128000S. Documentation states a maximum of 8 gigabytes supported, which ...
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My old laptop doesn't want to start. Is it possible to pick some important files [duplicate]
Well, it was a really big accident.
Some days ago, I bought a new laptop and today evening, I was transfering some files from my old laptop to my new laptop. Unfortunately, I dropped my old laptop, ...
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How can a SSD freeze a notebook's boot screen for half a minute?
My wife has a Toshiba Satellite C855D-11U and I got an idea that I'll enhance its performance, so I bought a Kingston SUV500 120GB SSD. I put it into the notebook then after power on the TOSHIBA logo ...
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Bootable Windows USB
I'm trying to create a windows bootable USB on mac, I used lots of programs to burn the USB but failed. When I connect my "windows bootable USB" to another computer boot from it, the screen says
no ...
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unable to install windows and remove manjaro
I have Manjaro installed on my pc and now i want to remove it and install windows 7. made a bootable usb and tried installing. but getting many errors. i tried both GPT and MBR partition scheme. in ...
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"Operating system not found" after HDD replacement on Dell Inspiron M301Z
We have Dell Inspiron M301Z with faulty HDD (resulting in freezes). There's Windows 7 installed, booting perfectly each time.
After we replaced the HDD with a new HDD, we cloned the data. And ...
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Windows 7 DVD boot - Registry change not saved
I am trying this out in Windows 7 Virtual Machine
Windows 7 64 is already installed in VM
Boot the PC using Windows 7 DVD
Go to Repair Your Computer - Command Prompt - Windows directory on the drive
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Repairing Corrupted Windows 7 USB/Internet Drivers from Linux Boot
I have a Windows 7 Pro computer for which all drivers (internet, USB, COM) are corrupted or missing. I was able to use a PS2 keyboard to go into to the computer and confirm this.
I then tried the ...
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How to convert SSD from MBR to GPT during clean install of Windows 7? [duplicate]
I'm trying to convert an SSD from MBR to GPT when installing Windows 7 so I can use UEFI rather than Legacy boot mode.
I realize there are a few related questions here but I didn't find them ...
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How to remove drive letter from first primary active boot partition, or how to just delete it and still boot
I created an image backup and restored it to a VHD file. The original drive has three primary partitions. It also has two CDRom drives, shown as the first two volumes. This is how diskpart lists ...
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Computer beeps at boot 3 times and loads Windows
Just recently for the last 3 weeks, my desktop PC is beeping at boot and then boots Windows successfully. When I am on the PC, I don't see any issues at all.
The beeps are short and as follows.
beep ...
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Blank screen before Windows login screen - is my SSD about to die?
I'm running a Windows 7 system with an ASRock H61M-HVS motherboard which boots from a 128GB Kingston SV200 SSD. The drive has been in use in this capacity since 2010, and until recently has had fast ...
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Missing drivers to install Windows 7 on Ubuntu 18 Thinkpad
I am trying to install Windows 7 on a dedicated partition on a Thinkpad T460s that is currently running Ubuntu 18. I created the partition with gparted, and I created the bootable USB using Rufus from ...
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Both OS selections in startup boot into the same operating system
Currently I'm using my brother's laptop since mine went to the service. While starting up Windows Boot Manager screen shows me that I have two operating systems available (both Windows 7). I thought ...
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AMD Chipset with Windows 7 x64 Reports 3TB drive as 748GB
I have an old AMD system running Windows 7 x64.
I recently upgraded to a 3TB drive (from 512GB), cloning my old drive contents over with Acronis.
Long story short, it shows up as a 748GB disk.
Yes, ...
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New SATA expansion card 'bootmgr is missing'
I recently installed a new IO Crest 4 Port PCIe SATA III expansion card, because I was out of sata slots, and hooked up an older 100gig SSD I had as a third storage drive.
Installation went OK, I ...
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MFT is corrupt, cannot read its unmapped extent record 19
I have a Lenovo x220 laptop which I dual boot between Win7 and Ubuntu. I've been running it like this for about two years, and recently upgraded Ubuntu from 14.04 to 16.04.5 about two weeks ago, ...
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How would one create Bootable USB with Windows 10 32bit, if there are 64bit already on USB
I have a Bootable USB with Windows 10 64bit (GPT parititioning) I used for my machine, which I created using Rufus.
Now I need to install Windows 10 32bit using MBR parititioning, on an older machine ...
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Could not boot up the laptop until BIOS is reset
I meet a strange problem recently which did not happen before. My acer E5-471g laptop could not boot up though the battery is full. I press the boot up button and nothing happens. And I unplug the ...
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How to make a disk to boot to my Windows 7 folder?
Good day
I made a copy of my C: (system and boot drive Windows 7) to a new partition on a new disk. I made a Partition to partition copy, because the new disk had already data on it on second ...
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Using Repair Install to fix a corrupted Windows 7 installation
I need advice. My installation of Windows 7 (I am using on an old laptop) was recently corrupted, so much so that I can't properly boot anymore (it keeps saying that some windows required files are ...
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Windows 7 doesn't boot without a data HDD
My computer has 3 disks:
1 SATA SSD 256GB, one partition: Windows 7 (C:)
1 SATA SSD 256GB, one partition: Data (F:)
1 SATA HDD 750GB, three partitions: Data (E:, G:, L:)
The mechanical disk (HDD ...
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Dell Studio XPS 1640 start up issues
I've had a Dell Studio XPS 1640 Laptop for about 8 years. The last 4 years I've had issues with it's booting. It will start to load and then get the blue screen of death for a millisecond and ...
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grub loaders in /boot/efi/EFI can't boot windows, /boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu/grubx64.efi can, grub installs the one that can't
I'm running ubuntu 18.04 (kubuntu, but who's counting) on a dual-boot system. Its grub menu was always able to boot windows 7, but suddenly, the windows entry in grub no longer works. When I select ...
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USB Installaton of win 10 on vaio laptop
I am trying to install win 10 from USB stick on a VAIO VGN FZ160E. The current OS is Windows 7 x64 which I installed from a USB stick about 7 years ago. I have the following situation:
Booting from ...
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Getting error c000021a: The session manager failed to create protected prefixes
When I try to boot Windows I get a blue screen:
STOP: c000021a Fatal System Error .
The session manager failed to create protected prefixes system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of ...
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Dell BIOS Has Random Dollar Signs on Boot Up
On my older Dell XPS 630i, I get some strange boot up behavior that is causing me to be unable to install Ubuntu 16 LTS or 18 LTS. Windows 7 runs fine with no graphical hitches at all. I don't know ...
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About boot sector(s), MBR etc (Windows)
I had a disk that boots with Win-7. On the same computer I installed another hard disk that boots with Win-10.
So now when I launch Windows, I have the choice between Win-7 and Win-10, ok.
Now that ...
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renaming C: after moving Windows 7 64-bit partitions to a SSD and keeping the old HDD
I bought a 500 GB (6-Gbit per second) SATA SSD to move my Windows 7 64-bit partition (and the 100 MB BCD partition) from a HDD. As that HDD has other partitions that I want to keep, the old HDD is not ...
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Computer doesn't seem to boot
A while back I bought a new computer. The old one was catching dust in the attic, but about a week ago, I saw it and decided to use it as a NAS, Network-Attached Storage.
I cleared it of dust, ...
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Windows 7 stuck at Welcome screen
I got into a problem where Windows 7 got stuck at the Welcome screen. I checked some online forums where it says can be easily rectified by getting into safe mode.
But safe mode also got stuck at the ...
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HDD doesn't show up in BIOS Boot Priority List
I had SSD added to my laptop rig, next to an existing HDD with Windows 7. There is Windows 10 installed on SSD and it boots immediately when I power laptop on. I get no option to boot Windows 7, ...
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Corrupt RegBack file on Windows 7
I searched on this site how to repair a Windows 7 boot that is reporting a
"Corrupt Registry". Most accepted answers suggest to backup the the files in
C:\Windows\System32\config
and
C:\Windows\...
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Cant boot from flash drive with windows
I'm trying to install Windows 7 on my computer. I loaded a legacy ISO with dd copy to an empty NTFS flash drive, added the "boot" flag and tried to load from the drive. I got this BIOS error:
Error ...
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Remove boot option in Windows Boot Manager that is not listed in bcdedit
I've accidentally installed grub2win in order to configure a multiboot setup witch a Linux distro. I've figured out that the correct way is to create an EFI partition and install the 'real' GRUB. This ...
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Stop code 0x000000F8 troubleshooting
Stop code 0x000000F8 relates to what, exactly? I can't find official Microsoft documentation for that specific stop code beyond:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/debugger/...
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NEC LaVie LM750/H LAPTOP won't boot and only shows black screen with blinking line on top left of screen
Im trying to boot my laptop from a USB Flashdrive (SanDisk Cruzer Switch) so I can perform a clean installation of windows 10 pro x64 but it only shows a blank black screen and a blinking white ...
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How to run a batch or exe file when clicking to enter a drive or execute itself in windows
Although a batch file with executable commands could be run in different ways, I wonder if there is a way like making "autorun.Inf", which is disabled in windows,to run that "bat" or it's "exe" file ...
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Dual or multi boot to a pre-installed/existing windows 7 on another drive without fresh install
I have a laptop that has working Windows 7 64-bit Enterprise edition on Drive0 which is an HDD. I have switched this HDD from Drive0 into Drive1 and plugged a new SSD into Drive0.
I then install a ...
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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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