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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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How to fix Windows 10 "The boot configuration data for your PC is missing or contains errors"?
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My laptop [Acer Aspire VN7-592G] doesn't have an optical drive, so Windows 8.1 was installed via an external DVD drive; upon finishing the installation, it was not removed as the first boot ...
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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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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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Two Windows OS choices at boot; how to remove one?
I have added a SSD to improve the performance of my laptop. I replaced the existing HDD with SSD in the main slot and then replaced my optical drive with the HDD. Then I did a clean install of Windows ...
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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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How to force system detection during boot: Inaccessible Boot Device Error
I have a Windows 10 disk from a computer, which I cloned. I plugged the disk into the USB port of the original computer, pressed F11 to get to the boot menu, selected the disk plugged into the USB ...
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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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How to write a bootable ISO Windows installation disk to a disk partition (and not USB flash drive)?
I have already read How to write bootable iso to a partition? and How do I place a bootable ISO on a USB drive?, but here it's a bit different:
I'd like to put the Windows 10 (or 7) bootable ISO ...
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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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