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System chooses boot drive seemingly at random
I have a system with two identical 1TB harddrives, where I image to a backup drive using the dd command. When I boot up, though, despite setting harddrive priority in the BIOS, the system sometimes ...
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incognito livecd (gentoo based) won't recognize my hard drive?
How do i mount my hd? I looked into /etc/fstab and there's only firmware and portage there so i guess mounting won't work, i need to add my hd to fstab first?
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Colored blocks on boot
When my laptop tries to boot right after POST I see colored blocks with flashing symbols in them. I am able to boot from windows PE cd. Tried fixboot and fixmbr with no success. I have also tried ...
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upgrading hard drive on toshiba satellite 5200
I have this beautiful & old laptop and would like to replace hard drive.
I've purchased samsung 120GB hard drive and exchange hard drives.
When I turn on computer my laptop doesn't recognize hard ...
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Fedora 9 not reconizing hard drive
I am installing Fedora 9 to a PC (specifications at the bottom) and have had a lot of trouble with it recognising the hard drive. To get the Fedora installer to recognize it in the first place I had ...
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Boot camp install from a HDD image
How would one go about imaging an old work computer (old IBM aptiva from 2001ish) with Windows XP and lots of stuff (VPN client with settings etc) to a new iMac, while preserving Mac OSX? I can't ...
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