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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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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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Windows 8.1 dual-boot with openSUSE boot failure
I already have Windows 8.1 on my newly built PC and wanted to dual-boot with openSUSE. I wrote the install image to a USB, but the install kept hanging so I used network install (also written to a ...
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How to install Win 8.1 to HDD as booting it from SSD? [duplicate]
I try to install Win 8.1 to my new computer with both SSD and HDD. I want to boot it from SSD but keep the all related files in HDD. Is it possible to choose such a scheme for the installation ?
If ...
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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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Unhibernate Windows w/o direct access
I attempted to repair my boot partition with boot-repair yesterday, which worked, except that partition I have Windows 8.1 on is hibernated. As of now, I am still unable to boot my computer to ...
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Windows installation doesn't detect drive, BIOS and Parted Magic does
Setup:
Intel NUC today (model DN2820FYKH)
Value Kingston 8GB DDR3L
Samsung SSD 840 EVO
It starts up okay, BIOS reports correct amount of RAM as well as connected drives.
I followed Intel ...
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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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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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Windows 8.1 boot into copied partition
I have a laptop with a mSATA HDD and a normal (spinning) HDD. On the mSATA is an Ubuntu installation, while on the HDD, there is a Windows 8.1.
The laptop boots from the mSATA where I have a boot ...
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Hibernation, Sleep and Hybrid Sleep broken on Windows 8.1 EFI Asus notebook
First I've done something stupid - I scheduled long disk check on boot, which I wanted to cancel, but I couldn't. So I used emergency power off. It didn't help, so I decided to wait. It didn't help, ...
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Windows 8.1 thinks my partitions are SSDs
I just removed an SSD from a PC so that I could put it into my "new-used" laptop. With the SSD, I had simply cloned my System and Windows partitions to partitions onto the HDD as a backup/recovery ...
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After installing Fedora Linux using Asus vivobook, cannot access OS
3 days ago, I installed Fedora on my Asus Vivobook s551. After the installation, I could not enter either the Linux OS nor the original Windows 8.1 OS!
I need to access my original operating system, ...
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Windows 8.1 start-up logo replaced with Toshiba logo after changing partition type to gpt and boot mode to UEFI mode [closed]
I have an Toshiba Satellite L850-1LL and I decide to install Windows 8.1 x64 to see how it
works.
First I've installed on CMS Mode and mbr disk partition style and there was logo of Win 8.1
Then I ...
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Mint 17 and Windows 8.1 Dual Boot: No EFI partition
I am working on the installation for Mint 17 and need to understand what is going on with my Windows 8.1 booting. Here is an image showing all partitions from Windows:
As you can see the EFI patition ...
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