Boot (or booting) refers to the action of starting up a computer and getting it to run the operating system.
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SMART failure on hdd, but unable to boot from another device
I have a SMART failure on a Toshiba hdd. I would really like to boot from another media to be able to analyze the drive more.
The message states that I can press "F1 to Continue", but it doesn't seem ...
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Can I make SYSLINUX load a root fs from an image file on an NTFS partition?
SYSLINUX allows me to boot from a FAT16 USB-stick by loading a kernel image and an initial ram-disk (initrd) image from there.
To get more space and a faster access, I can mount an NTFS partition ...
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cleared cmos and now computer restarts when windows is starting up
I cleared the cmos as suggested for some problem that I had with hardware and changed the RAM place to another slot, and now windows wont start, it goes till the message WINDOWS IS STARTING (I use ...
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How Do I Restore Windows 8 as default at OS Selection Screen?
After a long process of getting Windows 7 Pro installed on GPT/UEFI hardware to dualboot with Windows 8 Pro, I have ran into one minor problem.
After Windows 7 was installed, it was set as the ...
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Windows & Ubuntu dual boot.No menu to choose OS?
I just installed Ubuntu alongside Windows 7. Now I cant boot Windows 7 because it automaticaly boots Ubuntu without displaying boot menu. How can I get menu with options to choose which Os to boot? ...
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Augmented battery make the BIOS block
I've bought a new battery for my notebook, an old AMILO Li 2727, but when it is plugged in and I try to turn on the laptop, the BIOS blocks. If I remove it and restart the computer,
it works ...
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AsRock Z77 Extreme6, D7 no inputs error, no post
Up until recently my z77 had been working perfectly with 2 7950s. Suddenly the board began giving me the D7, no inputs found error at boot and would not post. I have tried continuously with other ...
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Boot from External USB Harddrive partition
I have a backtrack ISO which is bootable, and I want to make my USB drive able to boot backtrack by creating a boot partition on the second partition of the drive, which is empty. The first partition ...
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Laptop boots to white grey lines; BIOS doesn't display properly but can boot [closed]
Hardware specs:
ACER 5742G (Core i3 380m, optimus with Nvidia GT540M)
Replaced primary HDD with Samsung 256GB 830 SSD
Replaced CD drive with primary HDD (WD Scorpion Blue, 640GB)
Lspci output ...
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Windows 8 x64bit re-install unable to identify drives on HP Envy 4 1002tx
I have an HP Envy 1002tx ultrabook [Full Spec: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&docname=c03342406 ] on which I used to have a Windows 8 x64 Pro dual booted ...
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Script to root, install busybox and flash insecure boot.img for Nexus 7 wifi
I need to create a shell script (linux) to automatically root, install busybox and flash a non-permanent insecure boot.img on a Nexus 7 wifi (Android 4.2.1, mod j0p40d) so I can remount the system via ...
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Intel SSD remains unbootable despite reinstalling grub
I have a HP 4530s laptop and I've swapped the original HDD with an 180GB Intel 335 SSD. The problem is, I can't boot from it.
I've transfered my openSUSE 12.3 x86_64 from the HDD via cpio, as ...
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Pre-boot error message: DIMM configuration error
Whenever I start my PC I get the following error message
DUAL CHANNEL OPERATION REQUIRES IDENTICAL PAIRED DIMMA INSTALLED ACROSS BOTH MEMORY CHANNELS
BIOS HAS DETECTED A NON OPTIMAL MEMORY ...
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Missing Windows partition
I have Linux Mint 13 and Windows 7 installed on my notebook (a Dell Inspiron N5110), and I needed to do a Factory Recovery on Windows that led to me being unable to boot with Linux (the dual boot ...
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Need to use both button and paperclip on ATX connector to power the pc
I have some issue on a computer, and after several tests I found out that the only way to safely turn on the computer (otherwise it is dead) is to keep the paperclip on the atx connector and push the ...
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asrock h61m-itx Slow boot
I have a problem with my pc. On every first time I turned it on, it seems to boot fine however it gets stuck on the motherboard info screen (not the bios but the one that says "F2/Del to enter setup, ...
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old boot option still exist after format
I have window 8 operating system. Before window 8 I use windows 7 and Ubuntu.
So, I have install Ubuntu “up” windows 7 without making any partition, the Ubuntu make it when I install it through window ...
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Motherboard replaced, drive letter screwed, not booting
I have replaced the motherboard of my computer (with the same model), reattached every device, (I have 3 physical drives, with few logic drives inside).
Not my computer boots up, but when windows 7 ...
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PSU and motherboard power up failure [duplicate]
My girlfriend's computer is not booting any more. Here is a list of the hardware and the tests I've made so far:
MB: Asus P5QL-E
PSU: Thermaltake Toughpower 600W
First failure: the PC was off, ...
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Suddenly computer no longer boots from USB
I was running Tails from a USB flash drive until I shut it down one day and it stopped booting. Afterwards, I booted into Windows to fix it, and the system didn't even seemed to recognize it. So I ...
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How to repair a shot hfs+ partition?
I have a Macbookpro with a 450GB HFS+ partition and a 50GB Ubuntu 13.04 setup. I started Ubuntu and wanted to mount the HFS+ partition rw - and did it all wrong: I wrote (from my memory)
sudo hpmount ...
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Dual boot Windows 8 with Windows 8 problems [closed]
High There,
I have 1 Pc with a SSD and Hard Drive
I removed the sata connection of hard drive and install "Windows 8 Upgrade" on SSD.
It's not using EFI.
I removed then the sata connection of SSD ...
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How to boot from an external hard drive
I got an old compaq computer (5 years old) which came with windows vista. I made its recovery disks. Few days ago I took its Hard drive out to use it as a portable hard drive but now I want to install ...
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How to boot Linux from image on disk or “Poor Man's Install”?
Is it possible to boot Linux with user space applications from file/image on disk?
I can copy content of any live image (for example from http://www.debian.org/CD/live/) to separate partition with ...
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Linux AutoNeoGrub0.mbr is corrupt of missing? [duplicate]
I've been trying to get my windows boot manager working so I can boot both Windows 7 and Linux. Currently, I can boot both, but only run when I click on "Windows 7" in the boot manager (Linux will run ...
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How did Linux get on sdc when I insalled it on sdb
I typed $fdisk -l into the terminal to see my partitions.
When I installed Linux I installed it on sdb, which shows up, but for some reason it says Linux under sdc.
This is what it looks like.
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Should I install Grub2 to /sda or /sdb?
I have Windows 7 (default OS) on my internal hard drive which is /sda.
I have Linux Mint 14 on my external hard drive, which is /sdb
I'm going to install grub2 using a command, but I'm not sure ...
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Linux Won't Boot From Option in Windows Boot Manager
I have a pre-existing option to boot from (Windows 7), and a also made a Linux option which was made from Easy BCD.
I'm able to load Linux when I click on Windows 7 (When my external HDD with it is ...
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flash disk size is not normal after using suse image writer
Ok I don't know what to do, and decided to ask here, here's the problem :
I have a 8 GB flash disk that i use to boot image. I decided to try opensuse 12.3, and then i use unetbootin to extract it to ...
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Status display after boot on Debian
I run some VM's and some of them are dedicated to several jobs. For example lets say that one machine is running samba and ftp services and another is running Apache and some database.
Now what I ...
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MacBook Air startup disk not found, but verified
I have a MacBook Air that has suddenly stopped booting at all. I booted into recovery mode and see the harddrive fine in Disk Utility. The partition is there as well marked: Mac OS X Base System. I ...
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How to set boot disk flag with diskpart
My Windows Server 2008 R2 won't start and stops with Stop 7B, so I start the recovery console and use diskpart to check the disk. There are to partitions one of Type 17 and one of type 07, the detail ...
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Occasional display issues
I'm currently experiencing some issues that seem to happen randomly.
When I boot up I can see the boot screen right until the windows logon, and both my monitors go in sleep mode. One's connected via ...
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How can a param be added to boot-command but not accepted by sysctl?
I can successfully add libata.ignore_hpa=1 to my boot command and the following cmd will yield a '1' upon boot:
cat /sys/module/libata/parameters/ignore_hpa
but grep'ing sysctl -a for libata and ...
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BIOS error - attempting to boot
A friend's computer is getting this error screen while trying to boot:
It boots up, gets into BIOS, then shuts down and boots again, never getting to an operating system. I had to record a video ...
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Unknown Filesystem Error with my live USB Ubuntu after suspension
There are a lot of posts concerning the nasty "unknown filesystem" error and the grub rescue prompt, but mine is rather peculiar.
My Ubuntu 13.04 is installed entirely on my flash drive, and by ...
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Installing Ubuntu on a GPT partitioned drive
I have changed my system to boot from UEFI instead of BIOS and have installed Windows 7 on my internal SSD which has GPT partition type.
I am trying to install Ubuntu 13.04 on my external HDD. My ...
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Installing Windows onto 2nd drive then removing 1st drive
I have Windows 8 installed on a hard drive and I have just purchased an SSD drive that I'm going to slap Windows 8 onto as well, with the view to chuck the old hard drive out.
I have installed the ...
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Windows 7 & 8 dual boot MBR broken
I had a dual boot with Windows 7 and Windows 8, where Windows 7 was first and on the C:\ drive, 8 on the D:\ drive. I booted up into Windows 7 and deleted Windows 8 files (I should've deleted it ...
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creating bootable USB with win XP using a virtualbox and dd
I able to succesfully move linux installed on VirtualBox from virtual hard drive to physical usb drive.
I use unix dd command to read whole virtial harddrive and use physical usb flashdisk as output ...
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Unable to boot into Windows 8
I was currently running Win8 and F17 as a dual boot on my home desktop with an i5 chip and Asus UEFI BIOS. Unfortunately, while I was in Win8 I accidentally removed the partition that held my F17 OS.
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Keyboard is not responding before windows boots
I have an older desktop computer running Windows XP, and the keyboard doesn't respond at any point before the Windows logon screen is displayed. I need to reinstall Windows, but I can't get to BIOS or ...
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Resizing a FAT32 partition on a bootable USB using GParted fails
I have a 16GB FAT32 formatted USB. I've installed many bootable ISOs on it using Your Universal MultiBoot Installer.
I'm trying to resize the partition YUMI is installed on to minimum size (all the ...
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Create a bootable USB with DFT using UNetbootin
My Dell inspiron 8600 crashed and on restarting its showing the "unmountable boot volume" error. Occasionally the HDD is also making a strange clicking noise. I suppose the HDD has died. It looks like ...
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Power-on button takes a long time to work after PSU is turned on
I have a four-year-old Dell Inspiron 530 desktop with onboard video and recently it started to show this weird behavior (sorry, it’s a long post…).
The computer is connected to a voltage regulator, ...
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How to add the restore option to the windows xp boot menu?
My Asus EEEPC 1002HA has 3 partitions - C, E (where Linux used to be installed) and D (system restore files are located there out of the box). After Linux uninstallation i restored windows xp boot ...
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will pre-installed windows 8 on laptop boot if I disable secure boot in BIOS?
I have laptop with 2 HDD (Toshiba P870) and Windows 8 preinstalled on the first drive.
Secure boot is enabled.
When I install Linux (Ubuntu 12.04.2) on second drive it can't boot because of ...
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Win PE won't find my Network card
I'm trying to install windows7 x64 to a desktop with damaged optical drive. I have a laptop with windows7 x64 on which I'm trying to run a TFTP server for network booting of windows7 to my desktop. I ...
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on booting pendrive having xp sp3 os. it is not loading but it shows my pendrive device
already i've installed win 7 os now i want to install win xp sp3 in same lap. my lap's cd drive is not workingn so im using pendrive boot. on booting it shows pendrive device but it is showing BLANK ...
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How to make a USB flash drive bootable for Linux on an iMac? [duplicate]
I want to make a USB flash drive bootable on my Mac (iMac 12,1), so I can run a live version of any Linux-derivate and check for viruses on my Boot Camp partition.
I've already tried creating one ...
