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Dual boot stopped working after temporarily changing BIOS settings
I have a laptop (Toshiba Portege Z30-C) where I dual boot between Windows 7 Pro and Linux Mint 18. Today, in an effort to test a bootable USB, I changed the boot BIOS from "UEFI (legacy)" to "CSM Boot"...
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Cannot boot from USB to install Linux. Need administrator password that I dont have. Any easy way arround this?
I have made a bootable USB with Elementary on it - in order to erase my Windows 7 and install Linux Elementary. So far so good.
I get the message shown on the photo in the link - indicating that ...
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Computer won't boot from internal drives
I'm trying to get a computer up and running again. It has an NF4U-AM2G mobo, AMD 64 x2 Athlon 4600 cpu, a DVD drive, a 250GB samsung IDE HDD, a 160GB Maxtor IDE HDD, and a 320GB Hitachi SATA HDD. For ...
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How to make a bootable windows USB in Kali Linux
When I tried to boot my PC into Windows 10 I got a screen with a sad face saying unmountable_boot_volume.
After searching it said I needed a Windows 10 USB or CD which I do not have.
I still have ...
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Does using the windows repair disk to repair the MBR after uninstalling Ubuntu partitions delete your files and programs?
After reading the articles How to Uninstall a Linux Dual-Boot System From Your Computer and How to Manually Repair Windows 7 Boot Loader Problems (on howtogeek.com) in order to uninstall Ubuntu on a ...
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Computer not booting after hard drive disconnect
I have four drives in my computer
500 GB HDD ext4 for data
2 TB HDD ntfs for data
250 GB SSD with debian linux
128 GB SSD with windows7
I have windows installed first and later installed debian on ...
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Install Windows on a raw disk image in virtualbox and then use it as dual boot with linux
I currently have a laptop with linux in it.
I'd like to install Windows 7 on dual boot with it but instead of doing it with a usb drive I was wondering if it was possible to create a raw disk image ...
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Repair Windows EFI system partition from linux live OS
As part of my project I am working on a ubuntu based live os that can be used as system rescue disk for linux as well as windows.
Basically it will be used as a rescue disk in case of boot failures.
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Windows can't boot after Samsung Recovery Solution 5 restored it
This is the story:
I have (or should I say had?) Windows 7 "home basic" edition, service pack 1 installed (preinstalled from factory). One day I installed two Linux OS: First Debian 8.3 Jessie and ...
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how to access external bootable Linux disk from windows 7 machine [duplicate]
I have an bootable external disk which a Linux is installed on it. I can boot into it and use Linux there. It is a 1TB disk. I think it will be better if I can also use it as a storage when I use my ...
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Does Windows needs its own boot partition when dual booting?
My laptop comes with Windows 7. There was 100MB NTFS partition. I decided to remove it and use it as a /boot partition. After installing Archlinux and Syslinux, Windows didn't boot from syslinux. It ...
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How can I undo “mark partition as active” using GParted/Linux live CD?
In the process of trying to shrink my hard drive partition, I marked my C: drive (the only drive I have) as “active” in Windows’s “Disk Management” software. When I rebooted, it said something like “...
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Internal HDD stops working and the led indicator not flashing
I have 2 HDDs, one is old and one is new. Recently my PC has a problem. HDD stops working and I sure about it because the led indicator of front panel is not flashing. I removed the old HDD and it ...
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Format SSDs through MSI Motherboard MS-7751
I ran into a couple of problems and ended up at a point where I cannot boot into Linux nor Windows. I was wondering if there was a way to wipe my drives using MSI's shell and whatnot.
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Trouble after mainboard replacement
the problem is the following. Either my gfx or my mainboard had a problem on the previous pc, so I replaced everything (except HDD, Tower and DVD drive) since I figured I might as well upgrade.
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