Unanswered Questions
10,757 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Unusual Boot Issue - Windows 10
I have windows 10 Home Edition and I generally leave my PC on round-the-clock. Today I had to restart my PC andWindows forced an update on me like usual, except this time it would not boot back. I had ...
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Trying to dual boot windows 8.1 o my windows 11 but got bsod INTERNAL_POWER_ERROR
I am a windows 11 user and want to dual boot windows 8.1. when i first time tried this, it had an error which was,"\Windows\System32\winload.efi missing" i thought it was an end but no, i ...
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Boot device not found: working Windows 11 installation fails to boot via USB SATA adapter from the same disk on the same PC
I have just installed Windows 11 on a SATA SSD, updated the system, rebooted multiple times - it works fine. Now I removed this SSD, plugged it into a USB SATA adapter and tried booting from it. The ...
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External HDD (1 EXT4 Partition) Won't Show Up On Other Linux Computer
I have recently formatted a Seagate 2TB portable HDD with 1 EXT4 partition (from my laptop running arch). When attempting to access this on my PopOS desktop, the drive will not show up in the file ...
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Kernel Panic on boot of CentOS 7 working system on installing new NVME SSD
I have an existing CentOS 7 (7.6.1810) system running on AMD. It works well, currently running with the core O/S on a SATA SSD. I decided to attempt to add more storage by installing a new Samaung ...
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how do we recover boot for motherboard MSI PRO H510M-B. we have one long beep two short beeps
how do we recover motherboard MSI PRO H510M-B. we have one long beep two short beeps. light on VGA - indicates GPU is not detected or fail. How do we solve the problem?. memory Apacer NOX [...
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Troubleshooting white VGA LED on ASUS B550M motherboard
I'd like to ask. What can I do to fix my pc? Yesterday I turned it off as usual, but today the PC won't boot and the VGA led is constantly white.
Pc specs:
Ryzen 5 1600, stock cooler
Gtx 1050ti, ...
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Save a btrfs disk after power failure?
I have a non-system 4TB Western Digital disk (WD4000F9YZ) with a sole btrfs partition that no longer shows up after a power failure.
I can see this in /var/syslog that it's struggling to do something ...
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Linux fedora boot option won't appear on grub boot menu after new fedora (additional) instalation
Recently I had my fedora (39) running ok, every time I booted the pc grub boot menu jumped in asking which distro I wanted to run. Everything ok.
Then I created a new disk partition and installed a ...
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MotherBoard or NVME disc error - unclear
Recently there was a power outage, and while the PC seemed fine, woke up later to all NVME disks not being bootable.
I had a dual boot win11 and ubuntu, I was still able to access all the files on the ...
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Can't read my user files from internal hard drive using USB 3.0 To SATA and IDE Cable
I am using a USB 3.0 to SATA adaptor to recover data from some old internal hard drives from old laptops. The hard drive had been used on a Windows 11 laptop.
I can see all of the folder structures ...
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Intel server not booting with dual processors
I've bought an intel S2600WF server. At first, I put two Intel Xeon Gold 6148 processors into the server, but then it got stuck on the initialization screen after "Memory initialization complete. ...
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Why is the boot manager file for MS DOS 5.00 missing?
I downloaded the MS-DOS 5.00 boot ISO file from the Internet Archive and tried to boot it using YUMI (Your USB Multiboot Installer). However, it failed to boot, displaying a message that the boot ...
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Old HDD not recognized by Windows
I connected my old PC's HDD external drive to my laptop. (I have a connector to connect it. Since it requires an additional voltage to run, I've all the necessary tools and I am able to connect it to ...
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"predictable" device names in smartd.conf on various linux-like systems
To configure S.M.A.R.T. monitoring, there is a configuration file at /etc/smartd.conf. That control file and several web pages I've seen, indicate that the configuration file should be customized by ...
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