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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 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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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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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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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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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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How do I restore windows 8 / hard drive after hard drive overwrite?
So I have been a bit of an idiot... I was installing fedora and I clicked through the partitioning without much attention assuming that fedora would be installed in dual boot. It seems to have ...
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Hard drive missing from boot sequence
I have a laptop with Windows 8. I decided to install Ubuntu. It didn't offer me to install it with Win8, though according to the docs it should have, or at least if I had win7. I clicked Something ...
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Repairing Windows 8 after trying to dual boot it with Fedora 18
As the title states, I turned off secure boot and installed fedora 18 as usual using a liveUSB installer. This seems to have really miffed windows and now it refuses to boot.
Grub2 comes up fine, I ...
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Windows second monitor sometimes stays black
I have two monitors and both of them work fine most of the time, however, occasionally when Windows 8 boots up the secondary monitor shows nothing but black during and after the bootup. In these cases ...
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UEFI Boot a NTFS Drive
I'm trying to install Windows 8 through a bootable USB flash drive, in UEFI Mode. However, while it does work when the drive is formatted as FAT for some versions of Windows 8, the version I want to ...
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How to dual boot RHEL 6 and Windows 8?
The Situation:
I have an ASUS Notebook with Windows 8 preinstalled, i created a new partition and installed RHEL 6 to that partition, but the computer keeps booting into Windows 8 without going into ...
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Every windows 8 boot breaks grub
I have Windows 8 and Ubuntu 13.04 dual booting with UEFI and grub. (re-used the windows UEFI partition)
After I used boot-repair, everything seemed fine.
After I boot into Windows, however, I can't ...
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Multi-boot USB using windows bootloader and UEFI, for WinPE4.0 and Windows 8 installation
I have a large USB drive that I would like to use to multi-boot several Windows products. The way my project seems to differ from every other thing I have found on Google is that I want it to work ...
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x:\> drive, but no c drive - master boot unable to access disk.
I have a Vizio all in one which when I updated it to Windows 8 all went south.
Can not boot. Used Norton recover tool, but it can not find the master boot record.
In DOS, there is a x:> drive, no C ...
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Windows 8 - automatic repair loop :(
I know that this problem has been reported many times before, BUT so far there has not been a single solution.
So yesterday, I switched off my pc from the main plug (windows 8 32bit pro), today when ...
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USB key boot doesn't work
I have got an issue in Windows 8 (x64 home edition on Asus N56VZ) but I'm sure you can help me!
The USB keys are not recognized in the boot menu after doing this operations:
1 - installed ubuntu ...
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Fix Windows 8 EFI Boot on 32-Bit images
I've been trying to install Windows 8 on a UEFI-based computer using a USB flash drive. As far as I've have been able to gather, there have been some issues with this kind of installation, as the DVD ...
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Boot entries removed through easybcd. How do I restore Windows 8 MBR?
Somebody deleted my easybcd boot entries when I wasn't looking! I had a dual boot with ubuntu. I used my live usb and installed boot repair on the demo. After I used it, my ubuntu install was working, ...
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ASUS P5B - is it possible to use Fast Start and still boot from CD?
I have a ASUS P5B running Windows 8.
When I shut down Windows 8 and try to cold-boot Acronis from a CD, I cannot, even though the BIOS is set to boot from CD. Instead, Windows boots.
However, if I ...
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How to cancel Windows 8 drive repair
Windows detected an error on one of my nonessential drives in my desktop PC. It said it needed to reboot to fix the errors, so I rebooted and it started scanning the drive. However it is taking a very ...
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Long 20 minute startup/boot after Visual Studio Install
Yesterday I wanted to get back into a bit of XNA so I installed Visual Studio 2012 Express Desktop and Visual Studio C# 2010. I also installed the XNA framework (which needs Games for Windows on ...
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Trouble in dual booting windows 7 and windows 8
I installed Windows 7 and Windows 8 on the same partition of my hard disk.I had first installed Windows 7 and after that I installed Windows 8.But after installing windows 8 on the boot-list I didn't ...
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How to setup Windows 8 Boot GUI with Windows 7 as DEFAULT?
I have Acer Aspire S3, with original Windows 7. I try to install Windows 8 on another partition with "stock" Windows 7. After several hours of trying, I still can't figure how to boot in Windows 8 GUI ...
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Windows 8 + UEFI BIOS, “UEFI Firmware Settings” Missing
Originally installed Windows 8 (non-UEFI install) with a GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3 motherboard.
After upgrading the BIOS to a UEFI version and enabling some fast-boot settings and Windows 8 integration, the ...
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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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booting windows 8 from external hard drive
How I can create bootable external hard drive?
or:How To Create A USB Bootable Installer Drive For Windows 8
(some websites said that you must format your HDD with FAT32 but as you know 1TB cannot ...
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Applied a Windows Update and now my machine won't boot
So I run Windows 8 in a VMWare VM. Today I got that lovely "your computer will reboot in 15 minutes to install important updates". So, I rebooted it. It did all the "applying update" magic and then ...
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acer aspire starts very slow, takes about 30 minutes to show password box
the bios gets opened with F2 and also the process with the F9 and F10 but again the same problem restarts.
once it showed the UUID error. also nest time it showed that there are errors so it tried ...
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Windows 8 boot into UEFI firmware settings missing
On a homebrew computer I've installed a Intel DX79SR Mainboard, changed the BIOS mode to UEFI and installed Windows 8.
I further switched UEFI to fast booting, which works nicely.
Now I wanted to ...
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Windows 8 - No OS files found on disk
I had a working version of Windows 8 but yesterday my notebook was crashed and became unresponsive so I had to make a reboot by its power switch.
After that, I wasn't able to reboot the notebook: the ...
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How to Boot from CD on an Aptio BIOS?
I have an Laptop with an Aptio-BIOS and OEM Windows 8. My Harddrive is defect but warranty expired. So I bought a new Harddrive, built it in and now I´m trying to install Windows 8 from an original ...
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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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Windows 8 & Ubuntu 12.10 Dual Boot: Windows 8 as default OS
I recently installed Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) on my laptop with Windows 8 already installed. The installation went successfully and I get to use ubuntu alongside Windows 8. Since I am new quite ...
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How to set default boot operating system
My laptop can currently boot off Windows 7 and Windows 8, with Windows 8 set as my default operating system.
I installed Ubuntu 12.10 off a USB Drive onto a partition on my hard drive, but when I ...
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Installed Linux Mint next to Windows 8, now I can't access Windows 8
I have two hard drives. One with Windows 8, the other I was using for w8 "File History". I decided to try Linux Mint on it. I installed Mint just fine on my second hard drive. Now when I reboot I ...
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Windows 8 can't load from UEFI but loads by selecting the device
just replaced my CD/DVD-ROM in my notebook with an SSD, installed Windows 8 on it but got a damn annoying problem - the computer can't boot by the UEFI, I get the error of winload.exe missing and the ...
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Dual boot + isolate
I have a dual boot set up for Windows 7 and Windows 8 which are both installed on the same hard drive but in two separate partitions. My Windows 7 machine has unrecognized software which may contain ...
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Mac OS X Mountain Lion won't boot after installing Paragon HFS+ on Windows 8
I am running Windows 8 64Bit and Mac OS X Mountain Lion.
I installed Paragon HFS+ a few days ago, and now Mac OS won't boot. I get the gray screen with an apple logo and a progress bar along the ...
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Windows Sleep Mode - Hardware not booting up
I have a problem with my computers. It's mainly on my ASUS Eee PC Seashell 1215n Laptop, but other people I know have said that this happens to them too.
Sometimes when I wake up my laptop, it turns ...
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Can't boot windows 8 install from usb, thinks it's a hard drive. Now stuck on win8 logo
I have a usb flash drive I used to install windows 8 on this laptop. Now I wanna try it on my pc. In boot order there is no clear USB, there were only 3 options (tried them all) Hard, CD, Removable. I ...
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Why does my computer no longer recognize keyboards?
This is an Asus All-in-One from 2010 running Windows 8.
The computer froze. Upon reboot, the keyboard was not detected and would not power up (the lights would not activate as they usually do.) I ...
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Can UEFI settings brick new laptops?
See closed question - this is a less localised version of the same question.
Summary: changing CMS support in BIOS after attempting dual boot Windows 8 and Ubuntu 12.10 bricked my laptop.
While ...
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Windows 8 Pro on Laptop Won't Complete Boot Process
I ordered a brand new laptop with Windows 8 Pro 64 installed. I was able to turn the laptop on and run through it's set up (email, settings, etc.) and used it briefly before bed. When I got up the ...
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booting into a virtual machine from a linux installed on external hard drive
I am running windows 8 and have a linux Ubuntu 12.04 installed on an external hard drive, can I install a virtual machine on windows and run the linux system installed on my external HD?
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Windows 8 - Booting not working [closed]
I have a problem with booting my Windows 8 Pro I installed two days ago, I haven't restarted it since as it is a development pc in constant use. I tried win32.exe from command prompt but it didn't ...
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Cannot boot after latest windows 8 update - what diagnostic tools to use?
Following the latest Windows 8 update, my computer won't start. I cannot boot from any other USB stick, or a windows 7 DVD. It just says "MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION" and it reboots again and again. ...
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Windows 8 shows orange screen with white stripes on boot
I recently installed a fresh copy of Windows 8 Pro (full version, not an upgrade) onto my desktop (self-built). One day it restarted for no reason (was not a Windows Update restart) and when it ...
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Switching from RAID to AHCI with Windows 8
Many tutorials explaining how to change from one mode to the other. Usually it revolves around these instructions:
Change: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Msahci Start to 0
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