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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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Dell keeps booting to old SSD
My Dell G5 5590 has a 250GB SSD and a 1TB HDD. I bought a Samsung Evo 870 1TB SSD, and used Samsung's Data Migration tool to clone from the 250GB to the Evo.
Then, I opened the laptop and installed ...
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please insert a disk into usb drive after rufus [duplicate]
I used rufus to install windows on a fresh pc and after the install was finished I booted into windows, removed the usb drive. When I restarted and plugged the usb in it can't detect any media on it ...
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Windows boot loader corrupt on encrypted Windows 10
Good evening. I am looking for assistance in decrypting a HDD encrypted with Drivecrypt Plus Pack (or DCPP). In preparation for formatting, I uninstalled Drivecrypt from Windows without first removing ...
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How to correctly boot into Windows D: drive after cloning
I've recently bought a new SSD and successfully cloned the old HDD and all it's partition to the SSD resulting in a C: and D: drive.
I've added a new boot entry with bcdedit by copying over the ...
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INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE BSOD after cloning a drive, but only when the old drive is still connected
I've used Clonezilla to copy my Windows installation to a new drive. I have done a disk-to-disk copy, from the old SATA SSD to the new NVMe SSD. Upon removing the old drive, the new drive boots just ...
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Making an existing Windows 10 partition bootable
I have a PC which previously ran a W10 dual boot setup. The drive which had my first windows installation died, and now I can't boot into the second drive, although as far as I know it has a complete ...
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I have a Windows 10 Laptop, It doesn't boot up when I enable the HDD
I have a Windows 10 laptop and I just upgraded it to use a SSD by replacing the old HDD with the new SSD and cloning the Windows with MiniTool.
It was just working fine until I started having random ...
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Windows partition won’t boot despite being detected everywhere else
I recently removed a dual-booted OS from my computer. However, Windows won’t boot with the IO1_INITIALIZATION_FAILED error. Notes:
the recovery partition boots fine
DISKPART outputs:
there are no ...
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How To recreate bootloader to UEFI?
My hard drive is malfunctioning and not being recognized by my computer. However, i can use testdisk and get to the data on the drive and copy it, so i know data is in tact.
I took it to a computer ...
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Change boot system from Legacy > UEFI and set hard disk from MBT > GPT
There are many questions I need someone can help me answer it. Let me explain first... Longtime ago, my laptop only have 1 HDD and 1 CD-Drive. I have been using around 3 years, and my hard disk is ...
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I cloned my old boot drive to a new SSD and deleted a partition. Now I cannot boot from either drive
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I cloned the contents of my old (boot/OS) SSD to a new SSD. I then attempted (and failed) to edit the contents of the new SSD, and this has made me unable to boot from either drive.
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Unable to delete SSD
Everything began when my laptop (MSI PS63 Modern) went on being stuck in a BIOS boot loop back a few months ago. From what I remember, it happened after a BSOD where windows got frozen during the ...
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Windows 10 desktop no longer booting after hard disk swap
I have a work desktop, a Dell Vostro, which initially worked fine except for long periods of freezing after being awoken from sleep.
I consulted and was told it was a hard disk issue. I received a ...
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Disk usage at 100% during startup
Every time I start my computer, I have to wait 15 - 20 minutes just for it to actually be usable because disk usage is stuck at 100% and causing high lag. I have no idea why, and I tried a few ...
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How to log all file access in Windows before login?
I am trying to troubleshoot/fix a 30 minute boot time (i.e., the time between power being applied
and the login screen appearing). All diagnostics (CPU, HDD, RAM) seem fine, so I simply suspect
a bug ...
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Windows 10 doesnt boot after install
I've run into a problem!
My computer is running somwhat old, but it was upgraded about 2015-2017 with diffrent parts. Today its running a MSI Mag Z390M Mortar motherboard with an intel i7 4790K and ...
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NVME SSD disappears from BIOS during Windows operation, but never on BIOS load
I have an SSD (ADATA SX6000LNP) which contains a full-disk C: partition for Windows 10 and is installed in an NVME slot on the motherboard (ASRock X370 Pro4 with P6.30 UEFI). I also have an old HDD as ...
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Laptop Booting takes long time and File transfer takes hours
I have an SSD installed for booting my Windows 10 and an additional HDD of 1 TB for storage in my laptop some days ago my laptop took a long time to boot it always asks to run chkdsk.
Folders take a ...
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Move cloned ssd windows 10 to new hardware acquire a new license and keep old for old hardware
i have an i5 windows 10 with 2 SSD and this is my old hardware I want to move to new hardware with i7 my plan is to pick the one SSD which is a clone with windows 10, and boot to a new hardware. My ...
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Windows 10 UEFI won't boot (solved)
I can't boot my Windows 10 Pro mounted on GPT partition.
For a couple of days it entered a loop caused by WinRE. The strange thing is that no recovery function was able to get my drive to boot.
I ...
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BIOS doesn't recognize internal HDD connected through a SATA to USB adapter
BIOS(or motherboard firmware), doesn't recognize internal HDD connected through a SATA to USB adapter
I have two computers, a tower and a laptop.
I usually use a laptop but recently, in addition to ...
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Hibernation doesn’t work when it is booted from external SSD drive
I have an external SSD drive connected to my laptop through a USB C port. I can start Windows flawlessly from the SSD. Windows was installed when the laptop was directly connected to the motherboard ...
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Cloning active partition to another drive
Can I clone my active partition (H:) in "Disco 1" to "Disco 0" and erase the old one without any risks of boot errors? What program should I use? Is Macrium Reflect all right?
I'd ...
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boot from old internal HDD after fresh Windows install on new SSD
I replaced the HDD (Win10 Pro Bld # > 1800 can't remember exactly) on a V502UX Asus with 2 SSDs:
500GB 2.5" SATA III Samsung 870EVO on which I installed a fresh Windows 10 Pro (21H2 Bld #...
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Cloning/copying a complete PC
My home has a high end Home Theater controlled by a small PC with two separate drives (C and D). I will be selling the house some time in the near future (I am 83 years old). I designed the theater ...
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What is "Check for installed LCU, Error code 0x17" (Win10pro doesn't start after power loss)?
We had a storm that knocked up power (maybe twice in ~10 sec). Some PCs at work do not have UPSs, most are set to keep Off after power loss. Next day Win7 machines simply started without any issues. ...
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How do I fix an issue with Disk Manager that is causing a Windows Boot Manager Error?
A user of my desktop erroneously clicked 'make drive active' on the C: drive in Disk Manager. This has caused a Windows Boot Manager Error when I try to restart the computer. Here is what I do not ...
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swapping between Hard drives with OS in a laptop
I'm about to do some tinkering/experimentation with my laptop and looking for some options to keep my system safe from any wrongdoings that I may trigger.
Therefore, is it possible to take out my ...
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Problems with windows drive not booting
I had a problem after tyring to install Ubuntu and I kinda screwed some things up, so my Windows 10 wouldnt boot, luckily I had a drive with nothing important on it so I installed Windows 10 on it, ...
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MSI B550 Tomahawk + Ryzen 5800x: straight to Windows, no Access to Bios
Setting: I have a M2 drive that contains a Windows 10 x64 installation that was working just fine on an older system. This morning, that drive was dropped into a new system with
a MSI B550 Tomahawk ...
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Reformatting old m2 nvme ssd with windows OS with active partition
I have recently installed windows 10 to a new M2 NVME SSD, I didn't use the previous one with OS boot as I also installed it into a new motherboard. When everything was up and working, I also ...
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My pc stuck at blinking underscore
While I was using my pc suddenly a bsod stating inaccessible Boot drive came and my pc restarted and came to a black screen with blinking under score
I then gone to the bios and saw whether hdd was ...
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PCIE SSD Raid0 not bootable but everything is OK on it
I have a MSI GT72S 6QE laptop where the OS (Windows 10) is installed on a PCIE RAID0 SSD (I know, Raid0 sucks, I won't make that mistake again when buying a laptop).
On of the two SSD's in the RAID ...
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Installing a windows 10 OS on a previously used SSD; Do I have to format the previously used SSD?
So previously I did a cloning job from an old HDD to a new SSD. Simply put, I botched it by immediately booting using the SSD without removing the old HDD (first rule of cloning: don't do that).
So I'...
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Problems while trying to move files from HDD to SSD
Recently I bought a new SSD to replace a 1 TB HDD with Windows 10 installed. After getting the SSD, my next step was to install windows 10 on it. After installing Windows on the SSD I basically had 2 ...
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Win 10 hard drive full, can't boot, can't delete files in recovery mode or remove write protection
I am stuck on how to get my PC to boot.
I thought the installation might be corrupted but I read that if your hard drive is full then it can cause Windows 10 to not boot. Low and behold I have 2048kb ...
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Inspiron 15R 5537 - HDD in Optical bay caddy and SSD in Primary Bay - Not working But Other way round its working
Recently I planned to install SSD as primary storage for Windows 10 and current HDD as secondary storage.
I successfully installed OS in SSD and formatted OS from HDD but I am facing weird problem.
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Windows 10 restore failed, laptop unusable
My Dell Inspiron 15 7559 was working fine, but since it is 5 years old I tried to restore Microsoft Windows to factory settings, however, the process failed and now I cannot access Windows anymore.
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A non-RAID Intel hard drive is not displayed as a Win10 installation option in HP Notebook laptop
I have a brand new HP laptop that I just took out of the box. When I booted it, it took me right to freeDoS command prompt. It doesn't come with windows, so I entered the BIOS to get some information ...
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How to recover files from an HDD that cannot boot or be discovered by Windows Explorer after failed Windows update?
In the middle of a Windows 10 update, the computer restarted itself but wasn't able to boot back into Windows with a boot device not found error. I booted the machine to a Windows Media Creation Tool ...
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Changed Bios Boot Settings - Now Windows won't Boot
I've got a 500GB Samsung NVME drive running Win 10 Pro that is throwing this error when trying to boot:
Your PC needs to be repaired. The application or operating system couldn’t be loaded
because a ...
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Cloning a Windows 10 Hard Drive with dd
I'm migrating a Windows 10 install from a SATA 3 SSD to an NVMe drive for a friend. The plan was to image the drive, give the original disk back to my friend so he can use it in the meantime, and once ...
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Cloned SSD works perfect... When original HDD disconnected
I just resently cloned my hdd with dual boot windows 10 and Linux Ubuntu using macrium to a smaller ssd. If the HDD is disconnected, the SSD will boot like perfectly, fast, with all the programs like ...
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I have many Healthy (Recovery Partitions) on my hard drive. Is it safe to delete them?
I was about to make partitions for dual boot, I saw there are three healthy(recovery partitions). I had previously installed Virtual Machine. I want to know why the partitions were made and how ...
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An hard drive that is not always detected - and 912 bad sectors. Replace?
I have an HDD on a Dell Inspiron 15-3521 computer.
When I try to boot windows 10 on that computer, there is only a blank screen with blinking cursor. I checked the S.M.A.R.T results, and it turns out ...
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reboot and select proper boot device error after boot from new SSD
I just got my new Crucial P5 CT2000P5SSD8 2 TB which should replace another SSD as the boot drive. After successfully cloning the whole contend from the old SSD with Macrium Reflect, I am not able to ...
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Windows 10 boot error after disk partition
I attempted to create an 18 GB partition (with 64 GB unused on a 231 GB SSD) with a disk management program (AOMEI Partition Assistant).
I pressed Apply which was followed by a restart, which resulted ...
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Rebuilt Computer, back to Startup Repair after 1 day
I have an Acer Nitro Windows 10 PC, around 3 years old.
Last week we were using the computer fine. Turned off. Turned back on, it went to Windows Startup Repair. No options did anything.
I bought a ...
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Windows 10 won't boot after removing data-only hard drive
I'm running Windows 10 on "C". All my data has been stored on "E". I duplicated my files to a new, larger data drive "Z", and removed "E", the old data drive. ...
