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Windows 10: Can I safely remove WINRE or RECOVERY partitions?
I'm attempting to install Ubuntu Linux alongside Windows 10 in a dual-boot configuration. However, my hard drive comes with four Primary partitions already created, as seen here in gParted:
Thus, I ...
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Dual boot on SSD and HDD (Windows 10 and Ubuntu)
I have an Acer Aspire S3 (20GB SSD and ~500GB HDD) and I want to install Windows 10 on the SSD while creating a ~400GB partion on the HDD for windows. I would use the other 100GB on the HDD to install ...
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HP Pavilion does not boot
I just reset my new AMD HP Pavilion on windows 10 and it shows a message "Automatic Repair couldn't repair your PC"
The really strange thing is I want to install windows 7 pro which I have a copy of. ...
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Windows 10: "inaccessible boot device" error
I've just updated to W10 and all was working good, then for a reason tied with my video card (driver nvidia stopped working and has been...) the PC froze and I had to shut it down using the power ...
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HDD with Windows 7 to SSD with Windows 10
I recently bought a SSD drive to install my operating system there. My issue is the following:
I am running Windows 7 on a HDD drive in my current PC, and I have a copy of Windows 10 ready to install....
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Windows 10, partitions and recovery
I have recently converted my boot drive to GPT and I have two questions.
There is ~2mb unallocated space right after the boot partition and ~1mb unallocated at the end of the partition table. Is this ...
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Using SSD as boot drive and HDD as storage boot issues
Currently I have two installations of Windows 10 on my computer, one on my HDD that came with my laptop and another on an SSD to which I installed recently. My EFI System Partition and Recovery ...
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Diskpart assign letter to partition that is not associated with a volume (windows 10)
I used to have 3 volumes on my disk before something happened to the MBR that messed up my boot.
Now i'm trying to rebuild the boot environment to save all my data but it seems it is all lost. I can ...
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UEFI bootable usb on a MBR disk (Windows 10)
I am trying to install windows 10 from an EFI bootable usb I have. However, I get the error Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, ...
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Win 10 won't boot without SD card inserted
My girlfriend installed windows 10 without any issues aside from the fact that her PC would no longer read any SD card inserted in the slot. (We had just returned from a trip to Italy and were ...
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Can't boot Windows 10 after connecting second SATA drive with Windows 7 on it
My Windows 7 drive just crashed. Tried connecting it to my roommate’s PC (Windows 10) in order to look at the drive, but when I do Windows 10 fails to boot. It goes to this screen saying there is some ...
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Upgrading laptop hard drive to ssd
I'm upgrading my old Asus Q200e laptop's hard drive to a PNY SSD http://www.pny.com/ssd-cs2111?sku=SSD7CS2111-240-RB , following this tutorial. (As an aside, I recently upgraded to Windows 10 from ...
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Windows 10 and Linux Dual Boot on SSD and Data on HDD
So I am planning to do this dual-boot configuration:
SSD (120 GB)
Windows Boot Partition. Would contain all system folders. This is effectively the C:\ partition.
HDD (1 TB)
Linux Partition(s). My ...
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