Boot (or booting) refers to the action of starting up a computer and getting it to run the operating system.
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Laptop won't boot; says “BOOTMGR is missing” after active partition was changed
I have a "Recovery" partition which I mistakenly thought was redundant after reinstalling everything to C:. "Recovery" was previously the "Active" partition. I set C: as the "Active" directory in disk ...
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What is causing my system to wait 10 minutes after boot before presenting a UAC elevation prompt?
Since about four days ago, every time I restart or reboot my Windows 7 machine, the system comes back up with Microsoft Security Essentials disabled. The network and sharing icon in the status bar ...
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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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How can I convince my ASUS EEE B202 to boot, when the power is returned to its power supply
My little home server 'sulks', when it loses power. Instead of booting, when the power is returned, it waits for me to press its power-button.
Is there a way to have it boot without human ...
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Do hard drives need a GUID partition table (GPT) to boot in UEFI mode?
Is EFI booting something hardware specific? I have a desktop motherboard with a UEFI Bios, but I can only boot from USB drives in "UEFI" mode. Both the DVD drive and the HDD's (a RAID 0 array) boot ...
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DVD ROM is not working
I have a DVD RW drive that is well listed in the bios, and if no CD is in, it is also present in the "My Computer" of my Fedora 16.
But when I put a disc on it, the icon disapear from "My Computer", ...
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Boot from a VHD created by VirtualBox
I have used VirtualBox to create a VM, and installed the latest Windows 8 Consumer Preview on it.
I have a .VHD file with the OS installed.
I am wondering, since Windows 7 supports boot from a VHD ...
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Windows 8 ISO image to USB stick?
I want to make a bootable USB stick from a Windows8 CTP DVD.
(so that I don't have to waste a DVD).
On Ubuntu (Linux) there is a program that does that automatically for oneself,
but I think it only ...
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Get last successful boot time from a Windows hard drive
I work for a company that has installers go into people's homes and set up their internet connection. In the past 2 weeks we have had a customer say that we broke their computer. Our installers aren't ...
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Computer won't boot from a bootable DVD
My friend gave me his old computer that used to have WinXP on it. I'm trying to load Win7 on it and I thought there was something wrong because it wouldn't boot off a bootable disc, even though I ...
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How to force a PC boot from CD the next time it restarts?
Starting in a normal installation of Windows XP - is there some way to specify when the machine next restarts, it should boot from the CD (e.g. into BartPE)? And then the next restart, the machine ...
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Why does my VM hang on “Windows is loading files…” during a sysprep and capture task sequence?
My nice, well crafted reference machine will not boot at all! I'm trying to run a sysprep and capture task sequence (MDT 2010 and WDS off server 2012). I ran litetouch.vbs off the deployment share ...
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The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible 0xc000000e
A family member of mine recently went on vacation and turned off their computer, something they normally do not do, upon returning home it would not turn on and now returns the error message below. ...
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Can win7 be installed on and booted from an eSATA drive?
I'm the proud owner of a Lenovo W520 which is equipped with an eSATA (eSATAp actually) port. However I'd like to attach an external eSATA drive to it, install Win7 on this external drive and boot from ...
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Boot from USB using GRUB
My friend's laptop was in a car accident (he's fine!). However the laptop is very old its an Acer Aspire 1520 the CD-rom drive is broken and there is no floppy drive.
I made him a USB boot before I ...
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Mac won't boot after installing updates on Windows partition
Setup
I have an early 2008 MacBook with Mac OS X Lion installed. I made a partition with Windows 7 Ultimate which I can boot into by holding the Option key on the Mac keyboard.
Boot Issues
After ...
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How to Clone Win7 from 512b sectors to 4096b sectors
I'm using a new Thinkpad and I'm trying to upgrade the drive from a 250GB to a 640GB. I grabbed a WD Scorpio Blue and a ByteCC USB/SATA adapter.
First I tried booting Linux and doing a dd ...
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Is it possible to boot a consumer i7 system with a Xeon processor and ECC memory?
I have read a couple of blog posts on the Internet that appear to imply one can boot at least some i7 motherboards with unbuffered ECC memory and a Xeon 43xx processor installed.
I can boot my MSI ...
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How to boot Fedora Live CD iso from a Hard Drive?
I tried to use Grub to boot the Fedora 14 Live CD from its ISO image (SHA256 verified) on the hard drive.
I put Fedora-14-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso in the root directory of the FAT32 partition D: ...
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can't boot new computer
I got such a great response from Wil and Dan on my last problem I want to try again. I am trying to boot my just built computer for the 1st time and all I get is a continous beep which sounds like a ...
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Windows XP can't boot; keyboard doesn't work in the boot menu
I'm facing an error on Windows XP startup. The keyboard doesn't work and I can't choose "Start windows normally".
After waiting 30 seconds, Windows doesn't start on its own. When I test with a ...
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Install Windows XP to USB Hard Drive and Run from It
I wanted to know if there was a way (that worked!) to both Install and Run Windows XP Pro from a USB 2.0 connected Hard Drive. My system does allow to boot from external usb hard drive, but when I ...
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At what time did my Windows XP machine come out of hibernation?
I usually look at the event log to find out at what time I switched on my computer. I look for the entry saying "The Event Log service was started". I use this to record in-out times at office. These ...
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Long boot time if the computer is not connected to the domain
All computers in our company are connected to a domain. Now a lot of people reported that their computer need a long time to boot as soon as they are no longer connected to the domain.
I was unable to ...
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Need handholding with BCDEDIT modifications
Just upgraded my Win7-32 computer by adding a new hard drive, new memory and a new installation of Win7-64. The Win7-32 installation still exists and was on the C:\ drive but now from the Win7-64 ...
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What causes “A disk read error occurred, Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart”?
I have a virtual machine containing Windows XP SP3.
When I resized the VHD file (and the embedded partition), and tried booting, I got:
A disk read error occurred
Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart
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How do I burn the Win8 Consumer Preview ISO to a USB on a Mac?
So someone already asked this question (http://superuser.com/questions/396512/) but was happy with a non-answer. They asked how to install from Mac, someone suggested a Windows app, and they were ...
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will boot command params acpi=off or acpi=noirq ruin my hardware?
Dell xps 15z here. Really, really trying to install linux distro to dual boot from.
first goto is bt. cant even get past 'initramfs live media filesystem not found' on usb boot.
next was ubuntu, ...
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Windows 7 refusing to boot - could running Bootrec make matters better or worse?
I hope someone can help - it would save me several hours if I do not have to fully reinstall my machine.
Here is a brief summary of what has happened
Whilst browsing the web, Windows 7 (Ultimate ...
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How to get into BIOS when USB keyboard is not powered and have no PS/2 ports?
Just got a new Windows 7 PC (64-bit) with an Intel DH67CL motherboard. It's been working fine but I decided I wanted to try to get into the BIOS. Unfortunately I can't do it because my USB keyboard ...
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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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Where can I download “bootrec.exe”?
I have my Windows 7 x64 ISO on my pendrive, but WinToFlash app forgot to install the MBR (again).
The only PC I have, uses x86 Win7 , so it won't install the bootrec.exe, since that is a 64bit ...
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Is it possible to take ANY ISO image file and make a boot USB key?
I've done this countless times with Windows 7 installations: booted the image from a USB key and installed. No problem.
I want to do this with a FreeNAS 0.7.2 live CD, but I am having the hardest ...
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Strange Ubuntu linux boot behaviour
I've recently installed Ubuntu 9.10 on a desktop machine as the only OS. If put in a hibernate, it wakes up normally, but if turned off completely, after turning on there is no "beep" sound from BIOS ...
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!! 0xc01a00d !! aka Vista won't boot [closed]
Answer: Parts of the hard drive are corrupted. All of my user's code was checked in, so I'm just going to format the box.
One of my users has an HP DV5-1235dx laptop running Windows Vista ...
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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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Dual boot Windows 8 and Ubuntu 12.10 across a reboot
My Setup:
I have two separate SSDs, and each contains an independently bootable OS - W8 and U12.10. From my extremely limited knowledge, this means each has a functioning EFI partition(?).
My ...
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How can I make Windows XP bootable again?
Some time ago, I replaced my hard drive. Foolishly, I imaged the individual partitions, not the entire drive. That meant that my system was unbootable. For my primary OS (Linux), that was no problem ...
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Laptop won't boot after alcohol spill
So I just had a minor spill and let everything dry out. Now when I try to boot my laptop, I get one or two beeps on the bios splash screen before the laptop shuts down. I can't get to the post screen ...
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Windows Update Configuration Fails Every Boot [duplicate]
A few days ago Windows Update installed when I shut down my laptop. When I restarted it hung at 0% for about 5 minutes. Then it said reverting configuration and continued into Windows. Now every ...
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Windows has blocked some startup programs
I put a shortcut to MSI Afterburner, my graphics card monitoring program, into my startup folder. Every time I start up my computer, Windows pops up a message saying "Windows has blocked some startup ...
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Run Windows XP (VM) from bootable USB (linux)
Is there any setup that will allow one to plug in and boot via USB (most likely a linux distro) and then bring up Windows XP (or any OS) in a VM?
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PC won't boot, even into bios
Here's the deal:
I cleaned a hard drive of some viruses (externally) and put it back into the original pc. This hard drive will boot in any other pc except the original pc. When I try other hard ...
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Ubuntu 10.10 on a Mac Mini 2010 (Model #A1347) Boot up problem - blank screen
Ubuntu 10.10 on a Mac Mini 2010 (Model #A1347)
Hi,
I just bought a Mac Mini with the following specs:
2.4ghz Intel core 2 Duo
Nvidia Geforce 320M graphics
HDMI and Mini display port
I installed ...
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How to see Windows startup command line commands
What is the shortcut for removing the Windows boot screen logo during startup so that you can actually see all the command line commands that are running in the startup sequence?
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Cannot Boot Win 8 - Nor Correct Boot Files?
UPDATE: I was able to create a Windows 8 Recovery disk from another computer. I have attempted to re-create the boot files by following this method in Command Prompt:
bootrec /scanos
bootrec ...
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Fix single entry from mbr [closed]
I use EasyBCD to manage my tripleboot of (1) Windows Server 2008 R2, (2) Windows 7 Professional and (3) Ubuntu Linux.
While trying to change the order of my boot menu I ended up losing the Windows ...
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Does a Windows 7 system volume encryption tool exist that allows remote unlocking via ssh during boot phase?
Does a tool/method exist which allows encrypting a Windows 7 system volume while providing the possibility to remotely unlock it via ssh during the boot phase? Is it even possible with Windows 7 (I ...
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SysRescueCD on USB flash drive
I managed to install SysRescueCD on USB flash drive so that it boots a dell laptop, but for some reason it doesn't boot a desktop PC that I have. The BIOS provides 3 different options to boot from USB ...
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MeeGo, booting from USB won't work
I'm considering buying the new EEE PC X101 because it fits right into our needs. This new netbook, the version I'm interested in, runs on MeeGo though, so I wanted to have a look at this operating ...
