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Deleted my EFI & MSR partitions by error, how to rebuild it?
I accidentally deleted every single partition of my computer except the one that Windows is installed on it. I thought it was a good idea. But it was not.
I have no more MSR or EFI partition, so when ...
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How to regenerate Windows boot files without being able to boot into it
So I have an EFI dual boot system with Windows and Arch, and because of some grub tomfoolery I ended up completely wiping the EFI partition and installing systemd-boot. But now I don't have any way to ...
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HDD EFI\MICROSOFT\BOOT both EFI\MICROSOFT\RECOVERY empty
Hi i accidently formated some parts of partisions on my laptop. Now when it stats it's just a blank blue screen , not that basic with that sad face , but really empty blue screen. I dont know how to ...
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Windows is not showing up in boot menu after installing Pop_OS on a separate NVMe drive
I have two NVMes on my laptop. I already have Windows 11 in one, and I wanted to install Pop_OS on the other.
After installing Pop_OS, it only showed Pop_OS in the boot menu after starting up the ...
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Is there any way to restore / rebuild EFI without using a Windows bootable DVD?
I've got a frustrating problem with some old hardware. Due to some awfully designed firmware which hasn't had a new release since 2016, I can't boot from a USB stick containing an unpartitioned UDF ...
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How does \EFI\MICROSOFT\BOOT\BOOTMGFW.EFI interpret the "optional data" payload passed to it by EFI?
My computer currently has two EFI bootNNNN entries for Windows:
Boot0004 Windows Boot Manager HD(1,GPT,[redacted],0x800,0x1ff800)/File(\EFI\MICROSOFT\BOOT\BOOTMGFW.EFI)...
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Mecerl laptop gives a an efi screen
when I turn on my latop, a screen apear, with the following message
Efi shell version 2.40 (5.11)
map: cannot find required map name
please help
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How do I transfer boot partitions after installing Windows 10 and 11 to different drives?
I have a computer that dual boots Windows 10 and 11. Windows 10 was installed first on a SATA SSD, while Windows 11 was installed afterwards to a separate M.2 SSD. Now that I've been on Windows 11 for ...
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Understanding why Windows boot fails when EFI partition is moved
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I got a new computer with a HDD. I put SSDs in it and made RAID1, then started installing Windows Server 2022. I wanted to use SSDs and a HDD for data. I noticed the HDD already had some ...
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Create a backup of the EFI partition on a USB
I have Ubuntu on M.2 disk y Windows 10 on un SSD
I had install windows with ubuntu already installed, Windows has put its bootloader in the EFI partition of Ubuntu, since the M.2 disk is the first ...
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Can i delete the drive which contain microsoft and EFI named folder with FAT32 partition type
I have one partition which can be accessed through windows explorer which contains Microsoft and EFI folder
I am now confused that can I delete the partition and I can't delete it from the windows ...
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Windows 10 Recovery keeps showing on boot after fresh install of Zorin OS Lite
I've recently stumped on a problem after installing Zorin OS Lite 64bit on my old laptop which was running Windows 10 64bit. So basically after installing Zorin OS I was not able to boot into my OS ...
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I cloned my Windows on SSD and I can't delete the EFI partition on HDD
I recently bought a M.2 SSD (Seagate BarraCuda) and cloned my Windows 10 (build 2004) on it from my HDD using Macrium Reflect. All good with the process, I changed the boot order from the BIOS to put ...
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Bootloader behavior when 2 OSs are installed on 2 separate storage devices - UEFI
I have a PC with Windows 7 installed on M.2 NVMe SSD (UEFI Boot). There's no way to disable this M.2 SSD in BIOS. MSI AM4 board.
Same PC also has a 500 GB SATA HDD.
I want to install Windows 10 on ...
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EFI dual boot windows 7 under fedora 23
I recently installed Fedora 23 on my Windows PC, which is running Win 7 Prof 64 bit.
Before that I had a dual boot system with my above Win Sys and OpenSuse which was running after couple of minutes ...
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