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Win8.1 freezes on boot with hypervisorlaunchtype=Off unless I briefly disconnect SSD

I have a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 (model 12943QG) from 2012, running Windows 8.1 x64. I've upgraded the laptop with a Samsung 840 PRO SSD of 512GB to use as the system drive instead of the tiny 128GB stock ...
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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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How to boot from DVD Lenovo W540

I have a Lenovo W540 laptop currently running windows 8.1. I have burned an ISO image of a linux-based OS onto a DVD-R using the Mastered burn type (not live file system). I cannot figure out how to ...
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Booting barely working, Windows 8 can't sleep/restart/shutdown without crashing

I'm getting some strange issues on a lenovo laptop, it goes like this It barely boots, I get the lenovo BIOS logo and then sometimes I see the win8 loading dot-circle but then sometimes don't and the ...
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