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Repairing Corrupted Windows 7 USB/Internet Drivers from Linux Boot
I have a Windows 7 Pro computer for which all drivers (internet, USB, COM) are corrupted or missing. I was able to use a PS2 keyboard to go into to the computer and confirm this.
I then tried the ...
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Remove boot option in Windows Boot Manager that is not listed in bcdedit
I've accidentally installed grub2win in order to configure a multiboot setup witch a Linux distro. I've figured out that the correct way is to create an EFI partition and install the 'real' GRUB. This ...
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Does booting from a linux live distro leave any trace in a windows hard disk that it mounts?
Background: at work I have a Windows 7 PC where I only have normal user privileges. The PC can boot from CD o USB. I suspect that one of my colleagues is, from time to time, booting my PC with a Linux ...
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EFI Partition Corrupted
I've got my hands on a laptop that went down several linux installation and has now a corrupted boot configuration with a mix of EFI/MBR grub configs.
For starter when I turn it on it says:
Booting ...
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Windows 7 and Linux fedora do not recognize my Samsung 850 evo SSD, but the BIOS does
A few days ago I got a blue screen in windows, and my system restarted. After that, when I try to turn on my computer, the ASUS logo stays up for a long time (like 2-3 minutes) and then goes into a ...
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Moving multi-boot HDD between laptops: Linux works, Windows 7 does not
I had a laptop that is now dead, it had a double-boot configuration, Linux&Win7.
I quickly needed access to its files and moved the hard drive on a different laptop. All seemed fine, the boot ...
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Move Windows Boot Loader to another disk where Windows 7 is installed
For the last two days, I have been trying and searching for a way to boot Windows 7 from the new disk.
My disk configuration is as follows:
Disk 0 - Multi boot/multi portioned 1 TB HDD - Windows and ...
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Live USB: Why Windows OS requires an MBR to be installed?
I have always managed to create bootable linux usb devices using only dd. But when it comes to Windows, the computer fails to boot from USB .. - I don't know why it doesn't work that way, but the most ...
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How to dual boot Linux Mint 18.1 along with windows 7?
I recently installed Linux Mint 18.1, the latest stable release, on top of Windows 7. The installation went well. However, windows 7 is not listed in the boot loader at all even though I have access ...
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Accidentally installed ubuntu over Windows 7 now reinstalling Windows won't boot
I am quite new to Linux Ubuntu and had installed it as a dual boot with my Windows 7. I then tried to reinstall the ubuntu partition and accidentally wiped Windows. Now i have tried to reinstall and ...
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Windows 7 Installation booting goes black
Windows 7 Installation goes black and blank when trying to boot it.
This started happening after I installed Linux and GRUB. GRUB shows Windows 7 and Linux as options, but Windows 7 needs the ...
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How to install Windows and linux on separate drives so that their booting is independent
I've a system with a UEFI firmware, to which I'll be adding two drives. I wish to install Windows 7 on one and a linux distro on another. I would like it set up such that if one drive were to be ...
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Windows 7 boot loop with Linux disk present
I recently installed Windows 7 Professional on a spare disk (SATA3 SSD) and intend to dual-boot it with Debian Unstable, my main OS. For this, I removed my Linux disk (SATA3 SSD as well) so I wouldn't ...
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Uninstalling Kali Linux 2.0 from dual boot
I recently installed Kali Linux 2.0 along with genuine Windows 7 Home Basic.
But now I want to remove Kali, I thought to remove it by just formatting the partition in which Kali is installed, but the ...
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Broken BIOS and Linux
Hello everyone!
I have the following problem: my laptop refuses to boot.
When booting to Windows, it gets stuck at loading CLASSPNP.sys, on Linux its some ACPI error (dont have the exact logs atm, I ...
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