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Windows 10 100% disk usage on startup and whenever opening Windows/Microsoft Native Apps
Since earlier this week, my laptop becomes unresponsive when logging into windows. Disk C: is always at 100%. Windows will only be usable and lag free after around 15 mins. Open Resource Monitor shows ...
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How do I avoid "Stop code: DRIVER PNP WATCHDOG" when trying to install Windows 10?
I am trying to install Windows 10 on a desktop computer that someone else built at my work. Every time I try to boot from the installation disk, it shows the Window logo then a loading icon and ...
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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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Secondary HDD doesn't show up but reappears out of nowhere (windows 10)
So I built a new PC a few months ago and I've been having problems with my secondary hard drive since. At first the harddrive would show up but wasn't allocated. Allocating it worked for a while but ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Getting no bootable device on laptop, but the hard disk is working fine on other computer
I got no bootable device on my 2-year-old laptop Acer Aspire 515-51G a couple of days back. It had windows 10 pre-installed in it. I tried to install ubuntu but got the same error although the hard ...
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If both are UEFI, can I physically switch between a Win10 HDD and a Linux HDD as needed?
I have a work laptop with Win10 that only has room for 1 HDD, though I have a spare drive. I'd like to mostly outright switch to Linux, but I don't want to commit 100% in case an issue arises for ...
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Ability to selectively boot Windows 10 from two separate drives on same PC
I have an ASUS Maximus XI Hero Wifi Motherboard with three drives attached: a m.2 Samsung 970 EVO, a SATA Samsung 860 EVO, and a big SATA WD Red old fashioned spinner. The m.2 970 EVO has my Win 10 ...
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Non-system-disk error on Windows 7/10 restart
I have a very specific error with an HP Elitebook 8540w notebook into which I have recently upgraded the hard drive, from a Crucial 500GB drive to a Samsung 1TB SSD.
Via booting to a Ubuntu 14 live ...
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