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Tagged with windows-8.1 boot
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Where is the startup (autostart) folder in Windows 8?
Well, Windows 8 has no Start Menu any more and the startup folder has disappeared also.
Where can I find that folder? Or is there a new way with Metro?
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Windows 8.1 Black screen and no safe mode [closed]
PROBLEM
Cannot run Windows 8.1 due to black screen. No mouse pointer. Sometimes white cursor in top left. Cannot enter safe mode: get black screen but with a row of blue pixels at the bottom or a row ...
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Why won't my Retina MacBook Pro let me plug the power in without the screen blacking out?
I have a late 2014 Retina MacBook Pro. I run Windows 8.1 via Boot Camp with the latest drivers.
It worked fine for quite awhile as a standalone setup. Recently I started using it only with an ...
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Windows 8.1 black screen with mouse, cant acces task manager or safe mode
I am using Windows 8.1 (as an upgrade from 8). Yesterday I had to boot in safe mode through msconfig, but when my PC restarted, the Windows logo screen went black with only the cursor on the screen. I ...
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After Windows 10 upgrade I can no longer access BIOS
I posted a question recently regarding my Windows 10 upgrade which ended up with a black screen and cursor. QUESTION
I reverted back to Windows 8.1 using the "Revert to previous build" option in ...
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How can I set the location of the BCD system store for bcdedit
I am using a machine that dual boots windows 8.1 and OSX using the chimera boot manager. The disk layout is MBR so there is no EFI partition, the boot files can be found on C:\boot. When I try to use ...
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How to boot Lenovo X1 Carbon 2014 from a USB thumb drive
How can I boot Lenovo X1 Carbon 2014 from a USB thumb drive?
It has Windows 8.1. And I have tried
Disable Secure Boot in the BIOS setting.
Create the bootable USB drive using Windows 7 USB/DVD ...
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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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Booting from USB with UEFI bios to install Windows 8.1
I have a Lenovo 11e Yoga laptop. I have installed a new, blank SSD in the system and now I want to reinstall Windows 8.1 (which is what the laptop came with).
I created a bootable USB stick using ...
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Why does my MacBook play the startup sound through the speakers rather than through the connected earbuds?
I just installed Windows 8.1 Pro on my MacBook using Bootcamp. Before doing this, the startup sound that gets played whenever you turn on the MacBook would play through my earbuds if they were ...
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Boot into Windows safe mode with UEFI BIOS
My brand new Windows 8.1 computer is dead and only shows a cursor on black screen when booting. So I need to boot into safe mode.
I thought pressing F8 would do the trick. Apparently my computer is ...
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Installing Windows from a USB drive
I am installing Windows 8.1 through a usb stick. Here's how I did it:
Download the media creation tool from MS website.
Run the tool and get the setup stuff onto the drive.
Insert the drive ...
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How to change active boot partition of Windows 8.1 UEFI?
I've a 64 bit Windows 8.1 on GPT / UEFI and am trying to boot to another OS without a CD-ROM or external harddisk.
I've created a fresh partition (Z:) and copied Puppy Linux.iso over to it. However, ...
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"Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key" - Exhausted all solutions I can find/think of
Problem description:
My PC refuses to boot to my SSD with Windows. This is a new PC that I just built. It gives the error "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot ...
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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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