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Installing OS X On A Hard Drive Partition With Windows On Primary On Legacy BIOS

I Wish To Install OS X On My Hard Disk. It Already Has Windows 8.1 Installed On The Primary Partition. So I Shrinked My Hard Disk, Got 150GB Extra And Want To Install OS X On It. The Thing Is, I ...
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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 ...
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Windows 8.1 won't boot

My computer, running Windows 8.1 has suddenly decided not to boot any more, showing me just a black screen (no errors or anything). It's a HP Pavilion 500 141ea. When I turn it on, I get the HP logo ...
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HDD not listed in BIOS, but can boot to it if overridden?

I have a custom built Windows 8.1 PC running off an Asus H97I-PLUS motherboard with four drives (2x HDD, 2xSSD) attached with SATA cables. I was fiddling with the overclocking wizard. After a game ...
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How to boot Windows from new hard drive

I just bought a new, bigger hard drive. Currently I'm running Windows 8.1 with a 1TB hard drive. I just bought a new 3TB hard drive and installed it in my computer. Everything seems OK and Windows ...
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SATA HDD detected in BIOS but not in Windows 8.1

I have a 500GB hard drive that is detected by Windows after boot when connected by USB 3.0 but when I attempt to connect it by SATA, it is not detected by Windows. The SATA power and data cables ...
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Windows cannot be installed to this disk

I ran into a problem today. I have a HP pavillion dm4 laptop and it was running windows 7. I wanted to install windows 8.1 and used a bootable usb drive. I did custom install and formatted and deleted ...
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