Questions tagged [boot-partition]
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How do I find out which EFI system partition is in use by Windows 10?
I was running a dual boot Windows 10 / Linux system for some time, but I have recently decided to remove the Linux partition.
Currently, I'm successfully booting and running Windows 10, however when ...
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Debian on SSD not recognised after installing Windows 10
Due to school-related reasons I am required to have Windows; I got it installed but my issue now is that my BIOS only recognizes the Windows HDD and not my Debian SSD. Is there any way to fix this ...
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I've deleted the boot partitions on my hard disk drive. Data still remains. Can I recover it or make the system bootable?
Using a cloning tool to move my hard disk drive’s data to another drive, I saw some weird, unnamed partitions that I thought were unnecessary and/or malware... And very confidently, proceeded to erase ...
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from GPT to MBR and vice versa, now I do not see previous partitions
I will go straight to the point,
I have a laptop in dual boot (Windows 10 and Kali Linux) which has been converted from the GPT partition to the MBR (for reasons I do not know), I used gdisk to ...
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No boot device and file system not found in bios
Dell did a firmware update this morning on my xps running ubuntu and since then it hadn't been working properly so whilw trying to reinstall I ended up accidentally installing in legacy mode not uefi ...
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Boot from one drive, and run Windows from another
So... I have an old HP Z600 workstation which is pretty awesome with dual Xeons and 48GB of ECC ram. My problem is that storage speed is a huge bottleneck. Due to its age the motherboard and BIOS only ...
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What do I do if there are multiple partitions when installing Windows?
My computer has been acting a bit weird lately. So I decided to do a repair install of Windows 10. Unfortunately after it installed and restarted, the computer wouldn't boot up anymore. Luckily I ...
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Tried installing Fedora alongside Windows 10 - No Operating System Found
So, I installed Fedora on a live USB and tried installing it to my PC. I think I somehow messed up the ESP boot partition and whenever I start my computer it says "no operating system found". I can ...
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Cannot boot dd'ed windows partition
Until yesterday, I was happy with my partition schema:
Device Boot mounted at
/dev/nvme0n1p1 * /boot/efi
/dev/nvme0n1p2 swap
/dev/nvme0n1p3 / ext4
/dev/...
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Create EFI partition before installing Windows 10
I'm currently using a dual boot setup on my laptop, with Windows 10 and Fedora and I'm planning to replace my HDD with an SSD for obvious reasons.
I'll make a clean installation of both OS, but I've ...
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On an external HDD, can you make one partition booteable?
i have been wondering for a good couple months now: Can you make a booteable partition on an external HDD so you don't have to use USB or CD when installing a new SO? I have a good external HDD, and i ...
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How do I delete a bootable partition?
I want to delete a partition with the disk manager of Win 10. I have two OS and I want to delete a partition that has one of them. I have seen a few tutorials that use this kind of programs, but most ...
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MacOSX partition failure
It started when I was installing Kali Linux on my MacBook with a dual boot, I used a Live USB to install and when going through the install process, I shrunk my macOS partition on the hard drive to ...
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Moving Windows system reserved partition
I just installed the Windows as a dual boot. I've decided I want to expand my Windows partition, but in between the Windows partition, which I want to make bigger, and my Linux partition, which I want ...
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Is it possible to boot from a symlink?
My experience was that I can make a symlink of a program's installation directory, which would allow me a virtual copy that could be altered without changing the original.
Can I do this with a ...
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Windows 10 boot\bcd not found error 0x000000f
I made C drive as Active in disk management; later I rebooted the system it gave me error saying that "windows cannot find boot\bcd due to software\hardware changes,use windows disk to repair the ...
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NVDIMM DAX boot
I'm trying to find more definitive information, but are there documented examples of an OS booting from real NVDIMM (single or multiple), possibly with a DAX filesystem?
I understand that NVDIMM's ...
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Does it STILL make sense to convert primary to logical drives even on a UEFI, so not an MBR system/PC/laptop
I have a Windows 10 laptop. I've partitioned the 1 TB drive into 4 parts and I'm in the process of making it into the the CLASSIC setup of:
[ OS1 | OS2 | APPS | DATA | Recovery ]
I've ...
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Can an OS partition still be boot-able after being converted to logical and then converted back?
If not, is it possible to save boot information somewhere before conversion and restore when rollback?
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How can I solve this MBR2GPT issue?
According to How can I migrate a Windows 10 from BIOS/MBR boot to UEFI/GPT without reinstalling? I can convert my system disk to GPT without reinstalling using the MBR2GPT tool, provided by Windows 10 ...
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How to dual boot windows after installing Ubuntu?
I am trying to dual boot my laptop with windows 10 which already has Ubuntu 16.04 in it.
So I made an unallocated partition for windows with gparted live CD and tried installing windows into that ...
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does laptop and pc have different booting files
I have recently bought a new hard disc and copied all my booting data are files into my new hard disc so that my new hard disc is also bootable and it is working fine with my PC but when I use that ...
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How do I check if I have an EFI partition on my computer?
I know how to look up the partitions on my system using Disk Management and diskpart in the command line. But how can I tell if I have an EFI partition? I am using Windows 7 and I see there is a 100 ...
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Installing Linux without recreating the previously created partitions
Tried to install Linux but during installation it's not recognizing the previously installed Windows and Linux OS. When creating partition, it is displaying entire hard drive as one partition.. any ...
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Can Linux be installed on a logical FAT32 partition? [duplicate]
Want to install Linux so that I can boot to my old windows and another Linux.
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My Mac has no recovery partition to boot from
On my late 2009 iMac, Disk Utility tells me my internal HDD is corrupted, and to boot from the recovery partition to repair it. I am running the system off the external HDD right now and holding ...
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How to delete obsolete boot options from EFI?
After installing and overwriting several operating systems, my EFI partition looks quite messy now:
Currently, there are only two operating systems on my machine: macOS, and FreeBSD, which means I no ...
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Grub rescue error after deleting Ubuntu partition
I was using Windows 7 and Ubuntu as dual boot,then I decided to remove Ubuntu.I deleted Ubuntu partition from my Windows-> Disk Management and extended the unused volumes with other windows partitions....
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UEFI/GPT and moving C:\ partition
I remember that when mobos used to use BIOS and the bootloader was located in the MBR, moving the Windows partition caused the system to fail to boot. I just finished moving (accidentally) the C ...
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How to fix my Partition Scheme between SSD/HHD to Dual Boot W10/Ubuntu on SSD use Unified Storage
I use GRUB Loader to dual boot ubuntu and W10 at the moment. Ubuntu is definitely on SSD. I ended up accidentally installing W10 onto my HDD. I am not sure if W10 itself is on my SSD with Ubuntu or ...
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Removing a partition with boot flag
I have:
sda1 (win)
sda2 (lin)
I want to remove the sda1 partition... should I set a boot flag to the sda2 before proceeding?
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Why can't I make this partition active on Windows 10?
Here are the drives and partitions on my computer, according to Disk Management:
Some background: Disk 2, partition 1 (the currently active partition) was my system partition back when I ran Windows ...
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How can I safely delete the old kernel version from the /boot partition on Ubuntu?
I am not so into Linux and I have the following problem related to the fact that my /boot partition seems to be full and it seems to cause a problem trying to install a program.
I am using Ubuntu ...
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Accidentally formatted a boot partition
I accidentally formatted boot partition, so now when I boot the computer it just said “no bootable device found".
How can I repair the boot partition?
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Bootable partition of an usb hard-disk with AOMEI Partition Assistant - Windows 8
I'd like to create a bootable partition of an usb hard disk. I created a partition and after I runned AOMEI partition assistant where I clicked on Windows to go creator. When I select the partition, ...
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How to boot on a new hard drive copied from a old drive?
I copied an entire SATA HDD (sector by sector) onto a new SATA HDD which has the same size. On my new HDD, I found all partitions (OS, Diags, Recovery, ESP) and files, but my computer (DELL) using ...
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64GB USB flash drive partitioned for Kali Linux persistent USB boot. Primary OK, logical unkown, will not format
I recently set up Kali Linux on a Toshiba 16gb USB flash drive with persistence. I can boot the drive up and it will save all setting etc. So I decided to get a 64GB flash drive to do the same.
The ...
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Which partition is GRUB? How to remove?
I have recently (attempted to) dual boot my Windows 10 laptop with Kali Linux. I could boot into Linux, but not into Windows. I found out I could press Fn + F12 while booting to choose a device, so I ...
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Shutdown Windows 10 truly for a dual booting system
It seems that "Shut down" in Windows 10 actually means "Shut down and hibernate". This has caused my NTFS partitions cannot be automatically loaded on Linux (Ubuntu 16.04) on my dual-booting laptop. ...
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Windows boot and system on separate drives
A while ago I moved my windows installation from a HDD (Disk 3) to an SSD (Disk 1), however I've just realised I must have made a mistake or followed an incomplete tutorial because my Boot files are ...
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Can I enlarge Mac EFI Partition? And if so how?
I've been searching for this forever...
By default EFI partition on Mac is 200 MB.
I have a special Windows 10 image (enterprise compilation) I would like to install on the Boot Camp partition, which ...
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Unable to install any windows (8, 8.1 or 10 ) on my laptop due to BSOD errors
At the beginning I was on Windows 10 64-bit version and I installed Kali 2.0 on separate drive. However, I unfortunately was unable to boot Kali through bootloader so I mistakenly deleted all ...
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Repair Windows 8.1 UEFI booting messed up by Easus Partition Manager? Error Code: 0xc0000225
Laptop Toshiba Satellite (Model will post but not super critical as the info posted below).
Pre-Installed OS: Windows 8.1 Bing as C: Drive
Default booting is/ was UEFI
Wanted to create another ...
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Set bootable flag on USB from Windows
I wanted to install windows 7 on my laptop, so I used Microsoft 's tool to burn the iso but it seems it couldnt set the bootable flag for some reason.
I can't retry the process atm, but I have the usb ...
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How to set default startup disk from Mac Startup Manager? [duplicate]
When starting a Mac computer, the option key can be held down to invoke the Startup Manager. From here, choices are given for possible boot volumes. Is there a way to make the selected volume the new ...
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Can't boot into windows 10
I can't boot into windows 10. The partitions on my ssd are:
ESP
Reserved Partition (I assume for windows 10)
Windows 10
Windows 10
Recovery
I can't select which Windows 10 OS to boot into. I thought ...
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Windows recovery partition
If i were to duplicate an OS partition such as windows 10, and both versions are bootable, would either version be able to access the recovery partition? For simplicities sake, original Windows OS ...
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Uninstalled Linux, still getting stuck on "grub" boot menu?
I installed then uninstalled Linux on a Windows 10 machine according to instructions at (http://www.howtogeek.com/141818/how-to-uninstall-a-linux-dual-boot-system-from-your-computer/). I removed the ...
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How to stop a computer booting into an operating system
I have Windows 7 installed on many virtual machines, when it comes to rebuilding a machine, I load the boot iso, start the machine, log onto the console and press space bar to start installing windows....
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Disk partition when no any window is installed
I don't have any windows in my PC, actually I have uninstall windows 7 the other day.
Now I tried to install windows 10 and when it was ask to choose disk, by mistake I was just deleted the system ...
