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Hard disk is always only detected after the computer is switched on the second time
At the first press of the power button to switch on the computer, the hard disk is not detected, BIOS says "unknown device" instead of hard disk.
Then I switch off the computer by pressing the power ...
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Computer starts without pressing the power button
When I open the switch of the power supply, the Computer automatically starts up and then in three seconds automatically shuts down.
I have tried shutting down windows properly but this unusual ...
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Boot from flash drive then start VirtualBox
I want to put a very small OS on a flash drive with minimum necessary requirements for running VirtualBox 64 bit machines. Can I make it with Tiny Linux or something similar?
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SSD won't boot anymore
Yesterday I put the computer to sleep.
Something went wrong because it didn't go fully to sleep.
So I restarted the pc and now it won't boot windows 7 anymore.
It said : "Please insert valid boot ...
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Computer won't start when connecting SATA HDD
I just bough a new HDD some time ago and recently i bought another SATA cable to have both HDDs connected at the same time, to transfer all the files from the older one to the newer.
When i connected ...
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Realtime Bootloader?
Does there exist a bootloader which can scan your disks for operating systems on startup, rather than requiring manual setting up of the bootloader?
This would make it very easy for a layperson to ...
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Can I boot with an old system on a new pc? [closed]
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Moving the Windows 7 hard disk from one machine to another
I have update the hardware of my pc execpt my hard disk, and it have the old windows 7 and ubuntu on it. Can I ...
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Boot from Hard Drive via USB but not directly?
I'm having a bizarre problem, and it seems I'm not alone.
On a Dell Latitude 13, I get the error message "internal hard disk drive not found" during POST.
Yet, if I take the very same hard drive and ...
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System Turning off, when power on? (Intel 101D MB, Intel Dual Core, Windows 7 32-bit)
I Cleaned my system multiple times in past, today also i did the same thing. When i try to Power on my System, i am able to see the Intel Processor Boot screen(able to hear Beap sound) and after 1min ...
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How can grub pass any custom variable into system enviroment?
I want to identify which menu entry has been lauched in rc scripts.
So is it possible to pass any variable into my system via kernel argument?
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Is it possible to choose between various X.Org configurations and rc scripts via GRUB?
I have AMD/Intel hybrid graphics. I have been using only Intel GPU when AMD Proprietary crashed X.Org. Now i'm having installed Catalyst and i've recognized higher power usage.
In both AMD/Intel and ...
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Dell Vostro suddenly giving “No TPM or TPM has…” message on boot
(Original question title was Dell Vostro suddenly giving "No TPM or TPM has problem" message on boot" but I was pinged by the stack exchange style police for having the word "problem" in my title!)
I ...
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MSI 890FXA-GD65 Won't Boot from perfectly good bootable CDs
The issue is with a brand new 890FXA-GD65 motherboard, but likely affects other recent MSI models. When you place a good bootable CD in a working CD drive and attempt to boot it, it tries to load the ...
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Install Windows XP on a removable hard drive
I've got a hard drive connected to my PC with eSATA. I'd like to install Windows XP on it without having to reboot the computer.
What is the best/easiest/quickest way of doing this?
I plan on ...
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Booting linux system from chroot: is there a better way to do this?
I want to set up Grub menu entry to boot into chrooted system (installed chrooted debootstrap to avoid touching existing system too much).
Currently I do the following to attain it:
Install ...
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break out of e2fsck on boot
Is it possible to somehow break out of e2fsck on boot?
My system runs e2fsck every 30 days, which is fine by me and I want it to stay that way. But sometimes when I turn on the computer and 30 days ...
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xubuntu start vino or another vnc server on boot
So, here's the situation.
I have a server with Xubuntu 11.10, which is gonna be 12 kilometers away (in a factory of my dad's company) in 3 days. So, in 3 days I have to come up with a solution how to ...
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How can I use a live CD to boot off a specific harddirve partition manually?
I have a machine who's mother board is failing to detect the installed hard drives.
I can boot off a live CD (Ubuntu 11.10 or system rescue 2.4.1) and mount the partitions and the hard drives seem ...
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User profile size and boot performance
This question appeared between two computer technicians that are friends of mine.
One was saying that the user profile's size (mainly regarding desktop content) would affect boot time and even ...
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Create a bootable USB drive from a DMG file on Windows
A Mac machine needs to be reformatted with Lion. I backed up the Lion dmg file when I purchased it via the Mac App Store.
I now need to create a bootable USB drive from the DMG file but I need to be ...
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Can I dd from my current hard drive to another hard drive while running the OS
My initial thought is that this is a bad idea.
But let's assume that I can't take a USB stick into my lab to run a live-Linux distro, and my computer has only 2-SATA ports. I have one 80GB SATA drive ...
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PC boot no signal
So when the PC boots up, is shows the BIOS message and after that the led of the monitor switches between red/blue but after a few minutes(like 4-5min) boots up..what's the main problem?
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GRUB, `device.map` and BIOS drives
I am exchanging hard drives in my computer fairly often, and it seems to have an adverse effect on the computers ability to boot. I'm aware of the boot order in the BIOS and I make sure that the drive ...
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Booting VirtualBox with Virtual CloneDrive mounted boot media
I have VirtualBox on a Windows7 64bit host, I want to use a WinXP 32bit on it as a guest. I have the installer image - legally - in a format (.img) that is supported by Virtual CloneDrive, but not ...
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Disabling a USB flash drive from being used to boot
Is there a way to make a USB flash drive not detected on a reboot, to avoid the PC trying to use it to boot from? Assuming you only have control over the flash drive and are not administering the PC. ...
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Problems with bootable… anything
recently i have made several bootable USB drives with a variety of linux distributions ranging from Ubuntu to Backtrack using the Unetbootin installer. lately however, the devices created stopped ...
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How do I reinstall Vista from CD room on a HP Pavilion DV9000?
i already have windows 7 on my laptop , i want to remove it and install windows vista , how can i do that from CD room? , someone kindly tell me the steps.
p.s : i need to do that without formatting ...
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Cannot boot from HDD after XP installation
I am not expecting an exact answer here but a just a list of things to troubleshoot would be good. I am trying to fix a friend's computer and thought I almost had it. Here's what has been done up to ...
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What could cause being able to access a hard drive, but not being able to boot from it?
Yesterday I was just browsing Stack Exchange when my computer suddenly froze. I've been having what I assume to be power supply issues the last couple weeks, so I've been used to it crashing and ...
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Deleted Windows Partition with Boot Files
I'm running a dual-boot setup with Windows 7 and Ubuntu. I accidentally deleted the partition that contains the boot files for Windows.
Here is my output from fdisk -l in Ubuntu:
/dev/sda1 * ...
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HP laptop boot loop & black screen
After loading a driver for an external usb wifi adapter, this laptop is having issues booting.
Symptoms are:
Boots up but loops after 15 seconds or so, don't know if it is actually posting
Black ...
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Install Windows 7 over Lan from pc with Win 7
Is it possible to install Windows in a brand new machine, if it only has the ability to launch OS from disk and lan?
I set the machine to Boot from lan and set my computer to Internet Connection ...
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How can i turn off discrete VGA during boot?
I have mux-less Intel/ATI hybrid graphics. I can't install fglrx driver, because of it's compatibility with Xorg. So i want to have pernamently disabled discrete VGA.
I type that command after every ...
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permanently save changes on grub menu
any way to permanently save an edited entry in a grub menu.
I know about editing the config scripts in grub.d, but for quick changes while i'm fixing something, and that i will have to boot into some ...
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Need technical info on NEC FC-9801V “factory” computer
A friend has an obsolete Japanese CNC metal-working machine which is built around an NEC FC-9801V "factory computer". The FC-9801V is a V30-based machine similar to the very popular (in Japan) ...
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mac bootcamp - showing hard drive selection on boot
Is there an option that always make the hard drive boot selection visible?
My current method is always pressing the option key on start up.
This is what i mean:
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Boot partition on SD/MMC with GRUB
I have a server box that runs Gentoo off an SSD with GPT partitioning. My BIOS is rather old, and for some reason it doesn't seem to be able to boot off the MBR of the GPT disk, so I am booting it ...
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New Power Supply doesn't work with a specific motherboard
I just bought a new power supply Corsair CX430 V2 in order to meet the needs of a new graphics card I hope to install. The motherboard is the micro-ATX form factor Asus P5KPL-AM/PS running a Intel C2D ...
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Archlinux boot time
I have Archlinux installed in my netbook. I want to reduce the boot time to less than 10 seconds. Is this possible? Do you have any success in reducing the boot time to a larger extent?
I am aware of ...
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How to boot from DVD when BIOS doesn't seem to give the option to change the boot source?
Have just bought a 2nd hand PC with Windows 7 Ultimate installed.
I want to boot off DVD, but when the DVD is in the drive Windows still boots up. I hit < f2 > to get into the BIOS menu, and it ...
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Linux got really slow
Recently my machine has become very slow and I don't know why? I've re-installed my Linux ( Ubuntu, Xubuntu ) several times. But everytime, after using a few times. It becomes slow again. I means ...
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Gparted will not resize Windows XP system partition
My C: system boot partition needs to be bigger. Tried Acronis, EASUS, and PM within Windows but the partition could not be enlarged with either a merge with another partition or resizing with ...
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Slow Boot loading drivers (pre Windows Logo Screen)
I have a
Vostro 1000 laptop
XP SP3
1.5 GB Ram
Athlon 64 processor
I just reinstalled Windows on the disk, finished adding all the drivers and the critical updates, and now it has a load time over ...
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Winlogon delays start
I'm trying to determine, why my notebook running Windows 7 Prof x64 hangs for about 30 seconds on the welcome screen with no CPU or HDD usage (it's a member of a Windows domain). I analyzed the boot ...
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Asus P8P67 Rev. 3.1 Motherboard issues powering on and saving settings
Edit: New Information
Have some updated information from the old question below:
So basically my issue right now is somewhat similar, but I've been able to rule out a couple of things. I don't think ...
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Windows 7 BSOD: Remove any newly installed hard drives or hard drive controllers
The motherboard in my old system died, so I moved the hard drive over to my backup system and now I'm receiving this error. I'm able to read the drive perfectly fine in the Recovery screen and it ask ...
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Clearing the CMOS fixed my computer but I want to know why it was necessary
After a shutdown my PC would turn on, but would not boot (nothing appeared on the monitor). I cleared the CMOS on my motherboard via the jumper, and then was able to enter the BIOS setup menu and ...
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How can I configure BIOS to boot-up automatically at a particular time?
The code sandbox is huge (including support libraries and stuff it is several hundred MB). The initial checkout+build procedure takes close to 45 minutes. A script executes the download+build ...
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Can I have multiple motherboards share one hard drive?
Is there a way to share 1 hard drive between multiple motherboards (they will be old ones). I don't need to be able to write, just boot all of them from it.
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“boot error” Message When Booting From USB in Laptop
Trying to boot Linux Mint 12 in laptop from USB. When I prioritize BIOS to boot from USB, I'm getting a "boot error" message [no other messages]. I press any key and Windows 7 starts booting.
The odd ...
