Boot (or booting) refers to the action of starting up a computer and getting it to run the operating system.
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How can I create a bootable iso image from a bootable flash drive?
I have a bootable installer image of Win7x64 on a flash drive. How can I create a bootable iso of it to use with VMware Workstation et al?
I have used Plop Boot Manager, but I'd really like to make ...
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How to test for harddisk damage preventing it from booting?
I've experienced some problems with the booting of my laptop and I'm now unable to boot from the harddisk. In particular when booting I get this error message:
No bootable device -- insert boot disk ...
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Booting an encrypted system from a flash drive without user interaction
I have an unused desktop that I'm planning on turning to a household server running (hopefully) Arch Linux. I know that I can fully encrypt the system and have to enter a password upon each boot but I ...
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MBR Partition Table not found
Well... I was trying to activate my windows 7, the first program that I used was "MBR Regenerator" that would turn windows back to the trial mode. Ok. The program asked to a restart, and I did it.
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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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Running XMBC 12 off a stick, sans HDD
I have a laptop whose hard drive is toast, so I'm booting XBMC off a stick. It works fine, but I would like to not have to manually intervene halfway through booting up to tell it to Try Ubuntu, ...
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How do I clean my dirty bit?
For some reason, a large number of Windows 7 machines have all the sudden start invoking a dskchk any time computer restarts. So naturally I start googling around.
First thing I found was KB831426. ...
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Asus T3-M2NC51PV usb boot
I try to boot a centos netinstall image from a pendrive, without success.
I set the usb as the booting device. I tried to set how the system sees the usb device, as cdrom or hdd, and I tried all the ...
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How can I boot from an ISO image stored on a partition that has Windows installed?
With limited USB ports (just 2) and no CD-ROM/DVD-ROM bay, is there a way I can boot off an ISO image stored on a Windows partition? I would like to use the ISO as a live CD and without the use of ...
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How to install dism through command line in windows 7 by booting from a recovery windows 7 iso in a USB?
Recently I installed a faulty security update (2823324) released by Microsoft http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2839011 . My computer is constantly getting blue screen and restarting. I have tried each ...
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Kernel panic after power loss
I have some PC systems meant for exhibition use, that are switched off by power loss some times. The systems use a vanilla Lubuntu Linux from SATA attached IDE drives. Now quite frequently, the ...
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Cannot boot from working CDROM which is on first place in the BIOS Boot Menu [closed]
The PC is now with Windows XP Pro. I want to install XP again but cannot run the installation disk.
Motherboard: I have CD which says Asus A7S8X-MX but Everest says Biostar GeForce 6100-M7.
BIOS: ...
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Jittery console after booting into Debian?
This is a weird problem. I think the main thing that's stopping me from fixing it myself is that I can't Google it because I have no idea what terminology I should use.
So I installed Debian today as ...
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Auto Logon Windows 7 Upon Initial Boot While Still Protected by Password [duplicate]
I have a Windows 7 machine currently. I am writing a script which will always be running. Basically, it checks to make sure a program is open, and if it's not, it opens it.
However, when my computer ...
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PXE media test failure - disabled PXE boot now I have a blank screen
So this is similar to this question and this question except after restarting the laptop I now have a totally blank screen. I can hear the fan and the power light is on but the screen is blank. I ...
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legacy grub: updated menu.lst is not used
This is a CentOS 6.4 with all updates inside Virtualbox OSE (quite old version).
All information below refers to the VM, I don't think there is any issue on the host.
/boot is a separate ext2 fs on ...
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Creating a system deployment disk [duplicate]
Hi guys i want to create an image of a windows 7 system and use it as a deployment tool and when I want to setup up like more than 10 laptops, then i just connect them on a network and deploy the ...
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How do I get an existing installation of Windows 7 working from a USB 3 external drive?
I'm attempting to copy my existing installation of Windows 7 from my work laptop to an SSD of my own, and boot from it from an external enclosure via USB 3.0. I've used the laptop's internal SATA ...
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Are there any applications on the Mac to help create a bootable ubuntu USB stick
Are there any applications on the mac which would allow me to burn my ubuntu iso to a USB stick (I am not good at terminal.) Also, is there any way to make sure that a bootable stick created on the ...
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Windows 8 bootup [closed]
I'm using a Toshiba laptop, I was having problems when booting up on Vista Home Edition, I upgraded to Windows 8 Pro. When loading the system reboots and when I try auto repair it tells me it cannot ...
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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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Windows 7 boot fails with EFI/Grub/Ubuntu
My windows doesn't boot. Here is a screencast.
https://plus.google.com/104553781986069868504/posts/ddRjsxuvtUi
Initial situation
For some special cause, I had two concurrent windows 7 installations ...
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Computer always has black screen
Today my computer is always showing a black screen on booting and no signal on monitor, but the monitor is working.
The BIOS message on boot isn't showing up. I thought the problem was my graphics ...
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How to know if a remote linux machine has booted?
I have a Windows development machine, and a Linux target on a company network. After booting the target board, how do i learn if it has booted up ? ping dig host nslookup utilities with target name do ...
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User on Windows 7 logs in and gets “green” screen with cursor
Has anyone come across something like this before?
This is on a Dell T7500 workstation. I can log in as Administrator without any issue. One user account (local login, no domain) logs in, gets the ...
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NTFS4DOS without logo?
I want to create NTFS bootable image. I use NTFS4DOS for read/write access to NTFS partitions. I use it because it loads fast, in just a few seconds. Every time I load from it, the NTFS4DOS logo ...
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Linux mint - black screen
Can anyone help?
Running intense pc pro (http://www.fit-pc.com/IntensePC/docs/Intense-PC-specifications.pdf).
USB keyboard and mouse, HDMI (1080p certified) cable connected to Samsung series 6 HDTV ...
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Cannot boot into Windows after using Partition Magic
By mistake I ran Partition Magic for XP and updated a partition. When I restarted the computer, it froze with a stop 0x0000007B (0x80D86B58, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000) error. I was unable to run chkdsk. ...
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Can't boot into linux on gpt-partition external drive on a pc
I've got an external HDD "Seagate Backup Plus 1TB". It's partitioned using the GPT scheme and carries two file partitions, an hfs+ OSX partition with OSX operating system installed, and an ext4 ...
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OpenSuSE 12.3 kbd service failing at boot
An install of OpenSuSE 12.3 (but upgraded from 11.2) displays this message
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Starting Firewall Initialization (phase 2 of 2) done
Master Resource Control: runlevel 3 has been ...
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Change DVD or network boot order from Windows
First, let me preface this by saying I'm sure there's a simpler way to implement our backup process, but what we have now requires making changes in only one place, rather than on individual user's ...
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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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Stuck on splash screen
I have just bought a new set of hardware and finaly got it to start up but now im stuck at the boot slash screen and the only thing that works are ctrl+alt+delete to reboot but I cant get past that ...
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Setup cannot find a CD-ROM drive
I'm trying to install WIN XP SP2 on a standard PC.
Boot from CD - and after some confirmation I got a blue screen:
Setup cannot find a CD-ROM drive Make sure your CD-ROM is on and
properly ...
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Installed Debian on a PC, now cannot boot to anything else
I installed Debian (6.07) on a PC. I wanted to install Ubuntu (12.10) after, but I could not boot to CD after Debian was installed. In fact no bootable disk(CD or floppy) would load once Debian was ...
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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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Linux/CentOS how to permanent inititate DHCP Client any reboot?
In my CentOS, i need to run dhclient -v command at every time i start/reboot the server. How to make this permanent please?
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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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Linux machine refuse to boot with invalid elf header
Recently, after a power supply crash problem, my linux machine (Centos 5.5 X64) did not boot neither gnome nor shell. On gnome startup it shows this error:
/etc/X11/prefdm: line 16: ...
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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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What is rootfs# and what can you do with it?
I have been dropped to a [rootfs /]# prompt many times when booting my distro failed. Usually I found I couldn't fix the problem with the limited commands available, so I would use any spare livecd I ...
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Boot CD from Linux Command Line
I'm trying to boot my cd through Linux Command Line however it doesn't work.
My CD should be compatible with Linux.
Kindly advise if any commands would be able to boot the CD as well as the program.
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Notebook doesn't detect boot devices [duplicate]
I want to install Xubuntu on my laptop (Asus U44SG) but it's BIOS doesn't seem to detect any device besides the hard drive.
I've tried to burn the ISO on my USB with different softwares:
ISO to ...
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dell inspirion 545 desktop will not power on. possible solutions?
for a few weeks now I've had an issue where I have to unplug the power lead for 30 seconds then plug it back in and hit the power button before the pc will turn on /come out of hibernation. Now this ...
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How to disable windows live cd booting?
Ever since I learned that I could simply put any distro live cd and copy every single file in a HD I have been sort of worried, is there any way that disable it in windows? I know that in linux one ...
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Graphics Card Issue - No Display
I found out recently that the Accelero Twin Turbo vga cooler I used on my Gigabyte HD4850 1GB (one of these) stopped working, so i decided to remove it and buy a new one. However I haven't had the ...
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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 touchpad damaged
While I was making my bootable DVD for Fedora 18 with another laptop, after finishing, I wanted to try whether it worked or not. So I restarted my system. It worked, so I've turned the installation ...
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Can't choose between Fedora 18 or Windows 7 at startup
I've installed Windows 7 on my system, and made three partitions: one of 180 GB, one of 210 GB and one of 75 GB. I've made a bootable DVD with Fedora 18 from an ISO file and installed Fedora on the ...
