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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hard drive stopped working after trying to delete a partition
So I recently got an SSD, put it in my machine, installed my OS on it which is Windows 8.1 64bit, and after booting everything was perfect. I had an older hard drive of 1TB, and an SSD of 120GB. The ...
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Why won't Windows boot from a new SSD?
I have an Windows 8.1 system with one volume. I want to upgrade the main drive to an SSD. I bought a Samsung 850 PRO. I physically installed it, then used the "Samsung Data Migration" utility that ...
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Cannot boot to old hard drive after installing SSD and Windows
I purchased an SSD and replaced the hard drive in my HP laptop. I then took the old HDD and installed it onto a caddy to my CD drive.
When first booting up, my computer was able to recognize the ...
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Workstation shutdowns automatically and shows no bootable device
I have Dell Precision T1700 workstation, a new machine, with 512 Hybrid disk. Recently I added an old 1TB HDD to it. After adding HDD am facing following problems.
If I work on Workstation for hour ...
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PC won't let me skip disk check on drive that isn't needed to boot; how do I make it check the disk while running?
My computer has three non-removable volumes: a solid-state drive I use for booting and storing applications (C:), a much larger hard drive I use for storing the majority of my files (D:), and a two-...
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How can I swap a HDD with Crucial BX100 SSD?
At work I have swapped HDDs for SSDs on two Toshiba satellite pros running Windows 8.1. Both were Samsung 250GB SSDs. All I had to do was create recovery disk, swap in SSD, boot from recovery drive ...
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Laptop boots from old HDD after I installed an SSD
I have an Acer notebook and wanted to upgrade an SSD. So I created a bootable USB, took the old HDD out and the new SSD into the primary slot. Installed Windows 8.1 on the Samsung EVO and started the ...
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