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Boot Ubuntu on SSD drive from windows bootloader (with or without easyBCD)
Hello Superuser community,
I'm facing a problem I can't find any solution to, after sooo much reading on the web.
Here's the situation
I have a laptop with 2 drives (sorry I could not add the ...
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SSD showing in DiskManagement but not in Window Explorer
I have got a new SSD (Corsair Force Series 3 120 GB SSD Internal Hard Drive) . I am trying to connect it using SATA to USB . Window is detecting the drive but not mounting it!!
When I am trying to ...
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Windows 8 installed twice - one installation faulty
I recently did a clean install of Windows 8 Pro to my Dell 1720 laptop HDD. I then decided to add a Crucial M4 SSD as the OS disc and use the HDD for storage in bay 2. I cloned Win 8 from the HDD to ...
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Setting Up SSD for Boot, Original HDD as Backup Boot?
I have an Alienware M17X R3 running Windows 7 off a HDD. I just ordered an SSD, which I plan to make the primary boot disk.
My question is: can I install Windows 7 on this SSD, set it as the primary ...
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Windows 7 clean install becomes corrupt after reboot (repeated many fresh installs)
My laptop keeps crashing on boot after clean Windows 7 install.
Computer: Samsung NP900X3C-A04HK (256GB SSD, 8GB RAM)
OS to install: Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (not from Samsung, ...
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1 year old SSD 64g Crucial M4 Fails to boot, freezing
The other day I came home from work and my computer is sitting on a fail to boot screen. I turned off the computer and checked the connections, and it turns on great. Nothing new, seen this before. ...
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SSD can't be seen/formatted/anything , stops other drives from booting
I have an old SSD I once installed Win 7 on. As far as I remember the install was working fine at the time.
I booted the PC in question up again recently - it contains the SSD in question as well as ...
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Possible SSD failure after overclock
I (foolishly) attempted an overclock on my newly-upgraded (new mobo and SSD) rig, and now I cannot boot. The relevant components:
AMD Phenom II X4 965 - 3.4Ghz (overclocked 10%)
Kingston HyperX DDR3 ...
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Windows 7 x64 refuses to boot due to an SSD-related issue
This is my setup:
Motherboard: ASUS P5KC
Hard drive: Intel SSD 330 series connected via IDE
OS: Windows 7 x64
The thing is that after having installed the SSD, on each and every a cold boot, Windows ...
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Intel DX79SI won't work with RAID-1
I built a brand new system, that has an Intel DX79SI mainboard, 16 GB DDR3 (four fours), nvidia geforce gtx 470 (from older system), coolermaster 700w psu from older system, intel core i7 3820, latest ...
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Custom PC won't boot Windows 7 DVD but does with Windows Vista
I ordered a custom-built PC (assembled by the store). This is the setup:
Motherboard: Asrock A75 PRO4-M
DVD drive: LG GH24NS90
SSD: Samsung 830 series 128 GB
DDR3 SDRAM: 2× Corsair XMS3 ...
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Problems with Windows 7 and HD
I have an Intel i5, Windows 7 Ultimate, an SSD as my main drive and 2 SATA hard drives.
One day I got a BSOD and my PC restarted. After that the following error appeared:
Windows Boot Manager
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new SSD BOOTMGR is Missing
I got a new Crucial M4 128 GB Sata 3 solid state drive that i cloned my OS on to. I have a laptop with two 500 GB drives, one holding the OS and one holding data. I swap the os drive with the SSD and ...
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BIOS won't allow SSD as default boot drive
I've been using a Vertex3 SSD as my Windows 7 boot drive in IDE mode for a few months without problems with a ASRock A75M-ITX motherboard.
Today, I ran the Microsoft fix-it to enable the AHCI drivers,...
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Blinking white cursor while booting
I have a Dell Studio XPS desktop PC. Previously, I had a 600GB SATA hard drive with a working installation of Windows 7. I just bought a Crucial M4 128GB SSD and put it in my computer. I then backed ...
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