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Inaccessible boot device: working Windows 11 installation fails to boot via USB SATA adapter from the same disk on the same PC
The problem is you complete the Windows installation while the SSD was connected by SATA. One way around this is start the installation while the SSD is connected by SATA and then switch to USB before ...
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Difference between bootmgr.efi and bootmgfw.efi?
Bootmgr.efi is used during DVD Booting process, You burn efisys.bin into your DVD boot sector, after it boots, it search for bootmgr.efi in root of your DVD.
Bootmgfw.efi is used during other types of ...
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Why does my computer only start up the second time and after I power it off and then power on?
Your issue sounds like it could be related to residual charge, a BIOS setting, or possibly a hardware fault. Here are some steps to troubleshoot and potentially fix the issue:
Discharge the System:
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Dual boot - 2 windows instances - add EFI to secondary drive
Manually create and format the EFI partition, then use bcdboot to install its contents. The tool will copy in all bootloader files, will generate a BCD with one entry that boots the specified OS, and ...
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Cannot boot after applying OpenCore Legacy Patcher Monterey for a MacBook5,1 (Late 2008 Aluminum Unibody)
Creating the USB install flash drive alone does not put an EFI boot partition on it. At least Version 1.5.0 of OCLP suggests that it be installed, right after all the installation files have been ...
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Boot Kernel From UEFI Application
The article with example you found looks AI-generated – if it were written by a real person, surely they would have looked at their own post at least once and fixed the broken HTML of #includes. (Some ...
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Why is the boot manager file for MS DOS 5.00 missing?
DOS 5 is not a UEFI operating system. It never was. It does not include a UEFI boot manager file: it never did.
I'm not familiar with YUMI. If it is able to boot non-UEFI systems, it will have ...
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"No firmware reserved region can cover this RMRR" after accidentally deleting EFI partition
The error no longer exists after nuking the EFI partition while switching distros. I think it's safe to assume I simply did something wrong while recreating it manually.
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PC won't boot from drive when I select it, but if I select boot from file and specify GRUB it works
If I go to boot Menu in the bios and select the hdd manually it still just beeps and sends me back to the bios settings. But below the 2 hard drives there was an option boot from file and in that I ...
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Unable to turn on secure boot
The question doesn't mention which operating system is on the ThinkPad.
While I don't have a ThinkPad to verify a solution, a search for that error message found some suggestions:
In "Secure ...
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Is there a way to boot from ISO file in rEFInd Boot Manager?
In short, you can't boot an iso image file, but you can boot a partition that is an image of iso.
Source: As of Jul 2024, <rEFInd source tree top>/docs/refind/todo.html says loopback mount would ...
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Could I make changes to a bootable Ubuntu ISO by booting into it, making changes within the OS, and re-exporting the ISO?
Would my approach work?
Your question is equivalent to asking "Can I modify compiled software"?
Yes you can, but you need the right tools and certain mental abilities for reverse ...
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Debug Pre-POST Freeze with ASUS Prime B350 PLUS
Switch Normal to Asus Optimal in UEFI it should work. You can find that settings top right side in Main Menu
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System no longer bootable: promise_fasttrack_raid_member
What does promise_fasttrack_raid_member mean? How could a raid issue appear in a non-raid system?
The promise_fasttrack_raid_member means that the device has a "Promise Technology, Inc." ...
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How to programmatically reboot into Windows 8+'s Advanced Startup Menu?
The .PS1 script as would need to have the following command:
shutdown.exe /r /o /f /t 00
The shutdown command is documented here. This was tested to work going back to at least Windows 8.1.
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Changing BIOS from PEG to IGD made it impossible to enter BIOS
Couple things:
Try using these procedures from your manual to clear the CMOS (just removing the battery would not clear CMOS on a modern MB)
Try using a raw VGA cable and monitor (not a digital ...
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Deleted my EFI/MS & MSR partitions by error, how to rebuild it?
Linux tools are not needed to fix Windows and are inefficient to use to do so: WinPE/WinRE: Resolve boot issues via BootRec/BcdBoot, partition issues via DiskPart/mbr2gpt
Per OP's comment under ...
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Deleted my EFI/MS & MSR partitions by error, how to rebuild it?
If you want to restore your data, then start by trying to restore the data partitions, not by taking a detour somewhere else. Recovering the EFI partitions will not help you with recovering data ...
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Windows 10 is stuck in safe mode and I'm unable to log in
What ended up solving my issue was:
Create installation media for Windows 10 on a USB drive.
Plug that USB drive in and boot the pc. Press the button to enter the boot menu.
In the boot menu, ...
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Cannot boot from GParted usb drive
If you have an nVidia video card, try booting in VGA mode. UEFI or classic USB mode didn't change anything for me, but going around the bad nVidia driver support made it boot right up for me.
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Windows 10 won't boot, primary partition has become RAW
Eventually, I had to replace the SSD as suggested in the comments, because it appeared to be dead.
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Old ish motherboard not booting from nvme
Booting from NVMe devices is something your motherboard firmware needs to support properly. It seems yours doesn't. No way to teach it (unless you're Asus). And, for Windows 10 and 11 you want to be ...
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Windows 11 Device Encryption not working after dual boot
The error message
"PCR7 binding is not supported, Un-Allowed DMA capable bus/debive(s)
detected, WinRE is not configured."
Is not very useful as it doesn't really point at the real culprit ...
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How to make MBR HDD bootable in UEFI mode?
Here is what I did in the past.
I then made a bootable gparted ISO made a USB key and booted from it.
I got a 2nd drive, and formatted GPT.
Then I created a 100MB FAT partition, and left it empty for ...
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Is the Windows 10 boot loader in system reserved partition the same as the one in the EFI partition?
It's always recommended to recreate the boot files (AFAIK, the same boot files can't be used)
Open an Admin Terminal: +R → Open: powershell → Ctrl+Shift+OK
Mount the EFI partition via DiskPart:
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Is the Windows 10 boot loader in system reserved partition the same as the one in the EFI partition?
No, they're not the same – though they might share the same "core" code (e.g. BCD parsing, NTFS reading), but they expect different runtime environment from the firmware (that's what makes ...
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Boot Custom Kernel with UEFI in QEMU
Very surface-level answer since I don't really have sufficiently deep knowledge:
When I run file myKernel.img in Ubuntu, I get this output:
That's what you usually get when the file isn't in any ...
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Windows 11 freezes on boot screen after I install graphics drivers (multi-GPU setup on workstation motherboard)
After reinstalling Windows 11 completely several times, I noticed there is an erroneous "Microsoft Basic Display Adapter" in Device Manager, which turns out to be the built-in graphics on my ...
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Windows crashes when hard drive is loaded
i had the exact same problem, and it was driving me crazy. i was using this drive in bootcamp on the windows side with all these problems. but booting into the mac, it literally behaved as if nothing ...
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