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Trying to dual boot windows 8.1 o my windows 11 but got bsod INTERNAL_POWER_ERROR
I am a windows 11 user and want to dual boot windows 8.1. when i first time tried this, it had an error which was,"\Windows\System32\winload.efi missing" i thought it was an end but no, i ...
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Internal 2TB SSD suddenly inaccessible except through cmd as administrative user
I've been using the boot drive SSD from a Windows 8.1 computer as an internal, SATA-connected secondary drive in Windows 10 machine for months. And still often switching it back to the Windows 8.1 ...
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Unable to boot (Windows 8.1)
I have a problem similar to this: Missing boot files in Windows 8
I was unable to boot and I found an old rescue CD I had, Wondershare LiveBoot 2012. It booted, but I made a mistake because I clicked ...
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Windows 8.1 recovery USB drive not booting at all
I burned a Windows 8.1 iso to an 8GB USB drive but when I try to boot it from the BIOS I just get a blue screen error:
Recovery
Your PC needs to be repaired
The application or operating system ...
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boot menu two windows 10 and 8.1, move boot settings from 10 to 8.1
I have two windows from two separated Storage Drives,
1-new 240GB SSD disk, win 8.1(new OS, installed last week)
2- win 10(old OS, installed 2 years ago and used before, and now I need it some times)
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How do I change my disk from GPT to MBR (Without destruction of data)?
My laptop has Windows 8.1 currently running, and I plan to install Windows 10. The 8.1 that I am currently running is on Disk 0. I would like to convert Disk 0 to MBR, so that I can use EasyBCD to add ...
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Can't enter into boot menu of Asus Vivobook
I have an Asus Vivobook laptop running on Windows 8.1. But, I have forgotten the password to login to the system. Now I am trying to install Windows 10 via a bootable USB stick. But the problem is ...
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Recovering data from corrupted win8.1 (unbootable)
Following situation: I am trying to recover very important data from a laptop of my father which was previously running win8.1 I think. No backups existent as far as I understand. I was not there when ...
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How to disable "Update and shutdown" and restore plain "Shutdown"
My Windows 8.1 - Basic Edition PC forces me to update when I try to shut it down every day and I go along with it. When turning it back on, It'll update for like 5 minutes and then say something like, ...
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Dropbox starts by itself even though the option to start with system is turned off
Even though the option to "Start Dropbox on system startup" is unchecked, somehow Dropbox sometimes starts by itself. I have observed many times on Windows 10 and 8.1. I would like the only way for ...
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Can't install windows 8.1 - setup stucked
Recently I got a desktop with a hard disk Toshiba 500GB which has windows 7 installed on it.
When turning on the computer, windows logo appears and it does not go beyond that. After about 30 minutes ...
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How to uncheck “safeboot” from System Configuration when only using keyboard
As stated in my previous question ,
I am using Windows 8.1. I do not use my laptop’s screen cause it is broken, so I use a monitor instead. So what happened was,
I ran to “msconfig”,
and went to the ...
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How to Startup Windows 8.1 without laptop screen [Only using external monitor]
I am using Windows 8.1. I do not use my laptop’s screen cause it is broken, so I use a monitor instead. So what happened was,
I ran to “msconfig”,
and went to the “boot” tab,
then I checked “safe ...
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Boot - Asus motherboard boot opens up bios instead booting - occasionally
I have a system runs on windows-8.1, Asus motherboard(UEFI supported). Occasionally(at least once per boot) it opens up bios settings menu instead booting. It shows two boot device (i) HDD with ...
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Is One Key Recovery on the Bios of the laptop? (transferring harddrives)
Lenovo 510p ideapad
I need to changeout a 1tb hdd for 2tb drive. I'm used to making a windows backup of my harddrive on an external drive, then inserting the windows disks when the new drive is ...
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where is boot parameters file stored in windows?
Where is the file which holds the parameters for boot options (safe mode, etc) stored? I know that the BIOS software is stored in EEPROM. How about when we modify its parameters?
Say I have a ...
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Windows Boot PreSessionInit time up to 140sec Struggling to find reason
Windows Boot PreSessionInit time up to 140sec. Struggling to find reason.
OS Name: Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro
OS Version: 6.3.9600 N/A Build 9600
Processor(s): ...
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Windows 8.1 installer: "Boot device failed"
I have a notebook that came with Windows 8.1, but formatted the HDD and installed Linux to a 64GB partition after a failed Windows 10 upgrade. Now, I want to dualboot Windows 8.1 with Linux. I ...
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Slow booting time in Windows 8.1
From some days to now my Windows 8.1 PC boots slowly.
The delay occurs between the login screen and the appearance of the desk screen. Between them the screen turns black and only the cursor and, ...
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How to create a batch file to reboot into Android installed on a second SSD?
I have Android installed on a second SSD on an Windows 8.1 machine. At present I can boot to Android via f12 after reboot to boot options etc. or by going to settings, power and holding down shift ...
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"Inaccessible boot device" error, but BCD, partition and drivers seem correct. What else could cause it?
My Win8.1 x64 EFI laptop refused to reboot after a recent update, the error is INACCESSIBLE BIOT DEVICE but I can't figure how to debug this. So far this is what I've done:
-Used DISKPART to assign ...
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Need to disable AV driver load via registry to fix Windows. But how?
The recent Microsoft patch against Meltdown isn't supposed to install unless the Antivirus software (if any) has previously set a specific registry key to signal it's compatible with the patch.
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Limit Windows to connect only one specific hard drive during startup
I stumbled upon weird Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 dual boot. Both 8.1 and 10 are on a separate disks (not partitions, although I recon the same would apply for partitions).
The problem is that W10 and ...
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UEFI BIOS: APM power-on option set, but computer does not power on when power comes back
ENVIRONMENT
Asus VivoMini UN62-M033R
Intel Core i3-4030U @ 1.90 GHz 1.90 GHz
UEFI BIOS 0226 x64 Build 11/05/2014 9.5.20.1742
Windows 8.1 64-bit
WINDOWS SETTINGS
Windows Power Options: power button ...
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disable malicious bat file at logon
Sometimes when I logon to my workstation I find a cmd.exe window running a batch file, which disappears too fast to be eventually found. It's called start.bat in my case.
I've tried looking for it ...
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PC Startup - 7022 Service Control Manager (hung)
I'm experiencing a problem when my computer starts. Apparently - according to the system event-log - a service hung on startup. (Having my Windows set to English I'm unsure why there's a German word ...
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Can't get past "diagnosing PC" in Windows 8.1
I use my laptop rather intensely and a couple days ago my HDD started to sound weird. I got bluescreen and since then I can't boot windows, windows safe mode anything. There's a big text saying "...
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Black screen of death + no safe mode/boot menu? Windows 8.1
Google suggests this might be a "black screen of death" issue, but the descriptions are diverse and the dates often seem to relate to issues from 2013-2014....
Prequel: About 3 days ago I tried to ...
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Windows 8.1 changed msconfig to boot to safe mode and now it won't boot
I was trying to get my computer to boot to safe mode so I could delete all AVG virus scan related files. I followed instructions online where they said to change the msconfig.exe setting in the boot ...
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How to repair Windows 8.1?
I currently have no OS installed on my PC but my laptop came pre-installed with Windows 8.1, so there is an image on the hard disk to install Windows 8.1 without the need of USB.
However, when I ...
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Can't install windows 8.1 from usb on bios based pc
Trying the same usb on newer laptop succeeds. Tried different programs for creating bootable usb from iso - Windows USB creation tool, Rufus, Lili. The result is the same - PC ignores usb and boots ...
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Windows attempts to chkdsk a phantom Volume at every startup
The question(s) of this post are the following:
This Windows 8.1 installation is executing what appears to be a chkdsk on every boot, specifying the following message at boot: Scanning and Repairing \...
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Error 0xc00000e9 when trying to install Win8.1 from CD on a new SSD device
I've just connected my new old SSD drive into my main computer. I have Win7 already installed on the old HDD and I want to install a new one (Win8.1) on the SSD. When I try booting from the CD drive, ...
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How do I fix windows error 0xc000021a
My PC displays the error 0xc000021a when booting then restarts to recovery mode.
I could not find any of my restore points so I booted into safe mode and disable signature drivers but it still ...
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PC Boots into bios, windows loading screen, then monitor loses signal
I have an irritating problem.
My pc will post, allow me to enter bios setup to change settings and whatnot. When attempting to boot either to the windows boot manager, or the windows 8.1 setup disk, ...
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Windows 8.1 Laptop with UEFI - How CSM Mode really works?
I have Asus X200MA Laptop with UEFI Firmware & Windows 8.1 pre-installed in UEFI mode (CSM Disabled). Now if I turn CSM on, I find that it still successfully boots into Windows 8.1 which otherwise ...
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Cannot find any hard drive after Vaio BIOS upgrade
So the thing is that I just upgraded BIOS version with official Sony Vaio Tool, but after it got upgraded the laptop cannot find any hard drive.
I'm using a Sony Vaio SVF1531A4E with the main HDD and ...
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Windows performs very low over 2 year timespan
My laptop is performing very low compared to when I just purchased it from the store. Normally when I try to clean it, the most common things are ad-/spamware and just a bunch of cluttered and ...
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Default User's Startup folder Windows 8.1 vs Windows 10
Just noticed something as I was playing around with the Startup folder of the Default user in both Windows 8.1 and Windows 10: For some reason, on all of my installs of Windows 10, the Default user's ...
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Windows 8.1: UEFI to System Recovery not working
I'm currently restoring a Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2 10''. I used a previously created recovery drive to reinstall the original Windows 8.1, and let it repartition the disk. Everything seems to work so far, ...
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Changing boot partition from logical to primary
So I previously booted to my Windows 8.1 from a logical partition. First I want to know how exactly is that possible. Does it hold MBR record on some other primary partition?
I have two disks: ...
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Could not locate '\efi\boot\bootx64.efi while installing windows 8.1 for dual-boot
I have a single-boot Ubuntu 14.04 installed on my system. Gparted shows the disk partitions like this:
At the moment, I want to do a clean install of Windows 8.1 so that I can dual-boot later (with ...
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Windows boot fails after plugging second HDD
There is an UEFI computer with SSD disk and Windows 8.1 installed on it. I'd like to add an HDD drive (non-empty, has some information, probably there was some old broken Windows on it too, but it was ...
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Mac bootcamp boots under VMWare fusion but not normally
I have a mac bootcamp partition running windows 8.1 that used to work perfectly. I've been using it for about 9 months exclusively under vmware fusion and all has been fine. I have recently however ...
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Evbda.sys missing after PSU exploded
First time SE poster here so please let me know if I do something wrong!
On Friday last week my Power Supply Unit exploded, I am not sure how, after googling it, it turns out these things have a good ...
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HP ProBook 450 G2 - Won't boot at all
Just got a new HP probook, came with windows 8.1. In order to install Debian 8, I disabled secure boot and enable legacy boot. Then installed debian successfully, removed the cd and restarted the ...
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Can't boot into Windows – How do I change a service using console?
I've a serious problem with my Windows 8.1 installation. It won't even allow me to enter the login screen (everything is black).
I've installed Aero Glass for Windows 8 (www.glass8.eu) which adds a ...
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Can I use a Vista installation disk to repair a Windows 8.1 system?
Someone I know is having a problem with booting their Windows 8/8.1 system. I'm assuming the boot /fixboot (and maybe boot /fixmbr) command will be able to solve the problem, but I don't have a ...
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Windows 10 installer don't recognize SSD (and Ubuntu does)
I have a problem with SSD (Intel 535 series). I've replaced with it a dvd-drive in my laptop (Asus L551LN). So now I have my old hdd in the old place and new ssd in the dvd-drive place.
The problem ...
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PC boot loop bug, how to enter bios if none of the 'F' keys work?
A laptop (Samsung NP270) was running OK but after several Windows updates on windows 8.1 it started an endless boot loop, showing 2 screens
First screen: Windows logo
Second screen: BSOD saying ...
