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Dual boot Windows 8 with Windows 8 problems
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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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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Bootmgr is missing
I have seen many posts about this issue but none of them helped me solve my problem. I just installed a new SSD on my laptop. On the old HDD I have two partitions (Windows and Linux). I cloned the ...
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Cannot start Fedora when installed on two disks
My laptop has an SSD and a HDD. There is now no OS on my laptop.
Before I had installed Fedora 18 successfully (it was only on the SSD). Then I made some mistakes and the OS broke. Now I want to ...
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Disk Read Error and more problems - Any ideas what to do?
I'm having problems with my PC, first of all I started getting Disk Read Errors when trying to boot from my SSD. However I usually was able to restart my computer a few times and it would eventually ...
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New OS SSD - unable to boot with it
Yesterday I connected my new 240GB SSD disk which is meant to replace my old 60GB SSD, which is my current OS disk.
I used "Paragon Migrate OS to SSD" to copy the OS (Windows 8) from the 60GB disk to ...
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1answer
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Can not boot into windows 8 after cloning HDD to SSD
I have a problem about transition from HDD to SSD.
I have a Sony Vaio laptop (a third gen Intel) which came with a HDD. For higher speeds I bought a new OCZ vector SSD to replace it and a HDD box to ...
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Boot Ubuntu on SSD drive from windows bootloader (with or without easyBCD)
Hello Superuser community,
I'm facing a problem I can't find any solution to, after sooo much reading on the web.
Here's the situation
I have a laptop with 2 drives (sorry I could not add the ...
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1answer
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SSD showing in DiskManagement but not in Window Explorer
I have got a new SSD (Corsair Force Series 3 120 GB SSD Internal Hard Drive) . I am trying to connect it using SATA to USB . Window is detecting the drive but not mounting it!!
When I am trying to ...
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Windows 8 installed twice - one installation faulty
I recently did a clean install of Windows 8 Pro to my Dell 1720 laptop HDD. I then decided to add a Crucial M4 SSD as the OS disc and use the HDD for storage in bay 2. I cloned Win 8 from the HDD to ...
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Setting Up SSD for Boot, Original HDD as Backup Boot?
I have an Alienware M17X R3 running Windows 7 off a HDD. I just ordered an SSD, which I plan to make the primary boot disk.
My question is: can I install Windows 7 on this SSD, set it as the primary ...
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Windows 7 clean install becomes corrupt after reboot (repeated many fresh installs)
My laptop keeps crashing on boot after clean Windows 7 install. Ok, here is the story, and some fact.
Computer: Samsung NP900X3C-A04HK (256GB SSD, 8GB RAM)
OS to install: Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (not ...
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1 year old SSD 64g Crucial M4 Fails to boot, freezing
The other day I came home from work and my computer is sitting on a fail to boot screen. I turned off the computer and checked the connections, and it turns on great. Nothing new, seen this before. ...
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SSD can't be seen/formatted/anything , stops other drives from booting
I have an old SSD I once installed Win 7 on. As far as I remember the install was working fine at the time.
I booted the PC in question up again recently - it contains the SSD in question as well as ...
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Windows 7 x64 refuses to boot due to an SSD-related issue
This is my setup:
Motherboard: ASUS P5KC
Hard drive: Intel SSD 330 series connected via IDE
OS: Windows 7 x64
The thing is that after having installed the SSD, on each and every a cold boot, ...
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Intel DX79SI won't work with RAID-1
I built a brand new system, that has an Intel DX79SI mainboard, 16 GB DDR3 (four fours), nvidia geforce gtx 470 (from older system), coolermaster 700w psu from older system, intel core i7 3820, latest ...
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Custom PC won't boot Windows 7 DVD but does with Windows Vista
I ordered a custom-built PC (assembled by the store). This is the setup:
Motherboard: Asrock A75 PRO4-M
DVD drive: LG GH24NS90
SSD: Samsung 830 series 128 GB
DDR3 SDRAM: 2× Corsair XMS3 ...
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Problems Win7 and HD
I have an Intel i5, Windows 7 Ultimate, and an SSD as my main drive and 2 SATA HDDs.
One day, I got a BSOD appeared and my PC restarted restarted. After that, the following error appeared:
Window ...
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new SSD BOOTMGR is Missing
I got a new Crucial M4 128 GB Sata 3 solid state drive that i cloned my OS on to. I have a laptop with two 500 GB drives, one holding the OS and one holding data. I swap the os drive with the SSD and ...
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Change Boot cycle [closed]
I have a computer that currently uses 2 different SSD drives to boot.
One drive has Windows 7 and the other drive has a previous version of Windows.
I need to make it where it only boots from the ...
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BIOS won't allow SSD as default boot drive
I've been using a Vertex3 SSD as my Windows 7 boot drive in IDE mode for a few months without problems with a ASRock A75M-ITX motherboard.
Today, I ran the Microsoft fix-it to enable the AHCI ...
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Blinking white cursor while booting
I have a Dell Studio XPS desktop PC. Previously, I had a 600GB SATA hard drive with a working installation of Windows 7. I just bought a Crucial M4 128GB SSD and put it in my computer. I then backed ...
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Computer won't boot unless SSD is oriented a certain way
I'm having a rather strange problem with my home build. It was functioning perfectly well until I put it in a storage locker (supposedly climate controlled) for a couple weeks and had it sitting in my ...
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Laptop won't recognize standard hard disc but will recognize SSD
Working on a Lenovo ThinkPad which was dropped.
Oddly enough it won't recognize it's own (standard) hard disk or boot from the CD/DVD drive, but will recognize an SSD and boot via USB - I'm at a ...
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Intell SSD + Win 7 after crash can not repair, can not re install
I have Lenovo w520, after i bought it i took away old hhd (no longer with me) and replaced it with intel ssd, it worked perfectly for 1 year or so, today my system fr0ze and after waiting for some ...
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Boot - Selected Entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt
My computer has been having this issue since last night. It's a self built desktop with:
Intel i5 Processor
ASRock Z68 Motherboard
Seagate Barracuda 2TB HDD
Crucial m4 64gb SSD
I have Windows ...
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Why is my ASUS P5SQL PRO is not detecting my OCZ Vertex II 60 gb SSD?
Why is my ASUS P5SQL PRO is not detecting my OCZ Vertex II SSD?
I've unplugged all drives. I've systematically moved the ssd to sata headers 1-6. The bios lists only "harddrive" in the boot device ...
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SSD Drive 0, Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
After installing Windows 7, my Intel SSD was drive 0, added a extra HDD for Storage and now the new drive is drive 0. I have tried switching SATA ports on MotherBoard and it doesn't make any ...
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ssd and cpu upgrade windows not installing
A recently purchased ssd drive is reluctant to boot with a new windows installation. Windows simply wont load after its first reboot in the midst of install and previously displayed a bootmbr post ...
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Boot from an empty HD
I have a brand new Solid State Drive (empty) and another Hard Disk Drive (files and content)
I want to install Windows 7 and I have the CD.
When I turn my computer on it won't boot, just the monitor ...
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Windows 7 not booting after failed SRT (SSD caching) install
This is a fairly new computer, only about a month old.
i7 2700k, z68 motherboard, with a 1.5tb WD black HD, and a 128gb crucial M4 ssd.
I followed the instructions for setting up ssd caching, the ...
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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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Cannot boot on Boot Corsair Force 3
Installed a Corsair Force III 60GB, Windows 7 64-bit,
It was working fine for a month, then all of a sudden the PC froze, and now I can't boot from the SSD. It says no virtual disk, but I am booting ...
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Getting 0xc00000e windows 7 “Boot device inaccessible” after random crashes
I've been having some weird random crashes that I can't seem to locate, and I'm unsure if it's windows or hardware related.
It's a brand new computer and very powerful. I've run into a couple of ...
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How do I upgrade Intel SSD firmware from USB? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I place a bootable ISO on a USB drive?
Ok, here's the thing. I have one of those Intel 320 SSD drives that is prone to suddenly shrink to 8 MB in size. Two days ...
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How do I duplicate my Windows 7 boot SSD drive to another drive?
I have a 2009 first-generation 64 GB SSD drive (manufacturer: G.Skill) that acts as my boot disk for Windows 7. I've installed new applications and media on another hard drive, but the OS is on the ...
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New SSD (Corsair) takes 1-2 minutes before it's found after first boot
My new SSD Corsair CSSD-F60 actually works - using it for boot and system disk (Windows 7 64-bit). But when first (cold-) booting the PC it's not properly found by BIOS and Intel ICH9R Controller. The ...
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Can't Boot With SSD As Cache
I have an issue where I can't boot into Windows 7 using a Crucial M4 SSD as cache. I have two Caviar Blue's in a RAID1, and the SSD is set as the cache.
The motherboard is an MSI Z68A-GD65 B3.
...
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Macbook Pro won't boot from DVD with SSD
Here's the timeline of events.
Had a running MBP 17 Early 2011 Thunderbolt with OWC Mercury Extreme Pro SSD 115GB drive.
Installed Windows 7 via bootcamp. I have done this multiple times before and ...
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bootmgr image is corrupt
I just replaced my hard drive with a SSD. I did a brand new install on the SSD and I received the following error after booting
BOOTMGR image is corrupt. The system cannot boot.
A little ...
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How can I get rid of an old HDD that my PC currenty relies on to boot?
So, this was kind of interesting. I have Windows installed on a 500 Gb hard drive, and there's been an additional 80 Gb drive sitting inside my tower for a couple of years, collecting dust (I don't ...
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SSD and corrupted master boot record
I have a 120GB INTEL X25-M SSD as the main drive which boots windows 7 (about 2 months old). Recently my pc would hang randomly and boot only in repair mode. No automatic repair or recovery image ...
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SSD Becomes Unbootable after a few Days
As Mr. Atwood wrote this week, I need to come to accept that my SSD will be a little problematic, as seems to be norm for this generation of drives. My motherboard is an X58 Sabertooth, and I'm ...
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BSOD on windows 7 with SSD during boot after improper shutdown
I have a BSOD on windows 7 with SSD during boot after improper shutdown (while windows animation logo is moving). The computer restart imediatly after BSOD, and windows proposes to launch startup ...
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What causes Windows Boot to stall?
For about 6 months now I have been having this weird problem where Windows 7 fails to fully boot correctly. What happens is this.
Starting Windows shows up on the screen.
Then 3 out of 4 times ...
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Should I write the MBR to my SSD?
I'm planning to install a SSD soon, and I want to make sure I get all the boot time benefits. Right now, I have Windows and Ubuntu installed on two separate HDDs. The Windows drive contains the MBR. ...
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large memory: wakeup slower than boot
I've upgraded my Windows 7 machine to 24GB.
As described here, I found out that 24GB of my precious C: SSD were taken for swap file. To solve this, I moved the swap file to my 2TB non SSD E: drive.
...
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Mac Pro powers down during starting-up from SSD
Today I installed an Intel X25-M SATA SSD (80GB) in my Mac Pro.
Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro3,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
Number Of ...
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How can I copy a drive image to a new SSD and make it bootable?
I recently purchased a G.SKILL Phoenix Pro 120GB SSD, and attempted to make an image of my current drive, and restore that image to the new SSD. The current drive is a 320GB HDD in an HP Envy 14 ...
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Is a SSD suitable as root disk for an always-on server?
Since an SSD has no moving parts, it seems to me to be perfectly suitable as the root disk of a server that is always on.
Is there any reason that you would suggest not using an SSD for this purpose? ...
