Questions tagged [boot]
The process and events beginning with power being supplied to the processor and ending with the operating system fully loaded and ready for use. Questions about specific parts of the boot process should be tagged with, e.g. [bios].
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What utility can move my Windows boot partition over to another hard drive? [closed]
Can anyone recommend a cheap/free utility that can do this without very much effort?
My preference is that it would be really easy.
Boot into Windows
Pick drive to move
Pick target drive
It copies ...
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Computer doesn't boot up, shows PXE error and/or "operating system not found", "no bootable device", "insert boot media", or other similar error
My computer no longer boots Windows or the installed operating system. Instead, I may get this error:
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
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Check cable connection!
PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM.
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Why does my computer beep when I turn it on? What are these beep codes?
Due to the amount of beep codes a PC can give, there are many questions on Super User about beep codes! I'm hoping this post will help to provide a community answer about all (dare I say all?) beep ...
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How to diagnose slow booting or logon in Windows? [duplicate]
When I start my PC, it boots into Windows (Windows 7 32-bit) quite happily, I login and the main Windows screen appears. At that point, however, the system is extremely unresponsive for up to 5 ...
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Booting Linux off USB pendrives
Booting a Linux system off USB pendrives is one of my favorite things.
On a laptop we have the following advantages,
The hard disk drive can be shutdown and that reduces power consumption (hdparm)
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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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booting windows 10 spends too long
In august 2015, I have upgrade my laptop from windows 8.1 to windows 10. But it spends always 10 minutes to boot it. It is not normal that it spends so long. What can I do for boot him faster? Below ...
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How to fix the Windows 10 boot loader from Windows
I installed Ubuntu on a system that has Windows 10 installed. I can boot to Windows or Ubuntu normally using GRUB. I want to delete Ubuntu partition, but first I must restore the Windows 10 MBR.
In ...
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Automatically login and lock
I want to configure Windows 7 to login automatically after the computer is switched on. That's not because I'm lazy and don't like typing passwords. That's because I want programs that are configured ...
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Clean install of Windows 7 Pro 64-bit on a UEFI laptop with GPT partition?
I’m currently pulling out hairs about a problem with my wife’s new Samsung Book 9 laptop.
it comes preinstalled with Windows 8. She wants Windows 7 Pro.
I’ve board a Windows 7 Pro 64-bit for her and ...
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Flipping the Removable Media bit -- alternatives to BootIt? [closed]
There's a utility called the Lexar BootIt utility that flips the Removable Media Bit on certain USB flash drives.
I want to flip the bit on my USB flash drive (it's supported) but really am not too ...
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Asus UEFI/BIOS options - How to boot from DVD?
I just bought a new PC and the default installed OS is Windows 8. I want to install Windows 7 but when I go into the boot options screen I only have one option:
Windows Boot Manager
I can't find my ...
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How do I boot Windows 8 into Safe Mode?
I have Windows 8 Enterprise x64. It's installed a virtual machine. After trying to update VMWare's guest extension it black screened. After resetting it, now the virtual machine won't boot. It just ...
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grub: boot from ISO
How can I boot into an ISO file in GRUB? The ISO file is on a reiserfs partition and GRUB can access it (already tested that).
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Is it normal for a Dell Inspiron 530 to have is fan to spin up 3 times before it POSTS?
I picked up an used Dell 530 desktop. It seems to work, but it has an odd pattern of powering up the case fan (which might be faulty - it sounds like a jet engine) 3 times, while blinking the power ...
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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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Windows 10 - disable reopening programs after restart/startup
Occasionally, a forced restart is happening on my Windows 10 computer.
When the OS is restarted every program that I've had prior to the restart is reopened at startup. The programs are reopened like ...
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what is the difference between the usb booting mechanism and optical disk booting mechanism?
Many distributions of linux/bsd have separate usb and dvd images and writing the dvd image doesn't seem to work. What is fundamentally different between these two mechanisms?
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Newish Windows 10 installation taking ~ 20 minutes in the pre session init phase
I installed Windows 10 on my Dell Precision T5400 a little over a week ago. It is a pretty old computer but it has two physical 4 core xeon processors, 32GB of Ram and a Crucial 525GB SSD. It is very ...
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Windows 10 Refuses to Boot After SSD Upgrade (XPS 9360)
I am genuinely at a loss here after almost a week of trying to fix this problem.
I've been running my 256GB XPS 13 9360 for a little more than a year now, and I decided to buy a new SSD to upgrade my ...
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How to delete OS from boot menu
After installing fedora and Centos and other OS now I have them all showing in my Boot menu [F2] on start up not the menu form the OS even after deleting them and reinstaling other OS - Ubuntu -so It ...
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How to tell if the Windows Installer boots in EFI or BIOS?
I have a Windows 7 x64 install USB and want to know if the installer has booted into EFI or BIOS mode.
I found a solution here, but it doesn't work since notepad couldn't find:
\Windows\Panther\...
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Booting a Windows 7 installation on different hardware
I'm in a situation where I could do with very quickly migrating a Windows 7 (RTM x64) installation from one machine to another.
What options are open to me in terms of getting W7 to boot after the ...
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Elevated Priviliges for Startup Applications in Windows?
Is there any way to configure application that requires administrator privilages (elevation) so it's automatically started with elevated privileges and does not request elevation on every startup?
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Run Metro application on startup?
I want to know where the Metro applications (Mail, People, Messages, ...) executable file path is.
Also, how can I run Mail application when my PC starts?
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Stop programs from starting up automatically on boot on Windows
Is there an easy way to prevent programs (Such as Logitech and Windows Live) from starting up automatically when I turn on my computer? I rarely use these, and each time I start my PC, I have to ...
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How to troubleshoot a computer not booting up when powered on?
I can turn on my computer and sometimes it will boot up just fine. After a while of use, days or even a week, when I try to turn it on, it powers up, in that the fans spins up, the power indicator ...
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How to fix UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME (0x000000ED) on my Windows XP Dell laptop?
I have a Dell Latitude D410. Running Windows XP. I am receiving the STOP: 0x000000ED (0X899CF030,0XC0000185,0X00000000,0X00000000) blue screen.
Initially, I tried everything specified with the ...
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Repair grub mbr and /boot using ubuntu 9.04 live CD
I have broken my boot sequence on my XP/Vista/Ubuntu box. I wish to restore the system back to the way that Ubuntu 9.04 (last installed OS) had it setup. I want to do only the mbr and /boot on the ...
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Windows 7 is stuck at "Starting Windows" when I attempt to boot computer
Basically, whenever I turn on my computer, it gets to the Starting Windows phase and just stays there. The startup animation still plays, yet it gets nowhere.
I have tried booting into safe mode, ...
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How can I determine the installed edition of Windows XP if the OS does not boot up?
I have a drive that I cannot boot, but it has an installation of Windows XP on it. I need to know what type of XP it has, and MS's solution (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310104) presupposes I can ...
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How to unlock an ATA password-locked HDD with an upper-case password if the BIOS accepts only lower-case?
I accidentally locked an HDD with an ATA password, trying to issue a secure erase command. It was on Linux, I entered this command :
hdparm --security-erase PWD /dev/sda
So the password is PWD (no ...
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Moving Windows 10 installation to another drive
There are a lot of questions like this, but given the specific circumstances I am adding this one as a new question as there are some specific issues that need to be tackled.
The steps that got me to ...
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Run command on startup / login (Mac OS X)
I was wondering which file I should place this bash command in so it will be run on startup.
# Start the MongoDB server
/Applications/MongoDB/bin/mongod --dbpath /usr/local/mongo/data --fork --...
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How to boot from a flash drive OS using VirtualBox?
I have two flash drive, one with Slax installed and another for Android x86 Live installed, but they do not boot in my laptop (in my work they boot perfectly).
I can boot from some live CDs/DVDs or ...
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Can I boot Linux from a VHD?
Is there some way to boot a Linux system from a VHD in Windows 7?
If there is a way, how do I put it there in the first place?
EDIT: To clarify, I'm not trying to run Linux in a VM. I'm trying to ...
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Command prompt as SYSTEM user (Windows 7)
How can I get a command prompt as the SYSTEM user on Windows 7?
Context: I'm testing a computer startup script, and I need to figure out the behavior of a command when run as SYSTEM rather than ...
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How do you start Windows 10 in safe mode?
I've been through the Windows 10 upgrade, and am experiencing a recurring "INTERNAL_POWER_ERROR", which is stopping me from logging in.
I'd like to be able to try to boot to safe mode, but it appears ...
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I get a red bar when trying to install windows 7 DVD, and it freezes
I get a red bar when trying to install windows 7 DVD, and it freezes.
I read here https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/aee2b86b-ab1d-409a-b8ca-e0f6a4c90b3c/windows-7-pro-...
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How to run a program as an administrator at startup on Windows 10? [duplicate]
We have a program that is having problem starting up on Windows 10. If the program is NOT run as administrator, it popups a "Access Denied" message right before it starts. If we run the program as an ...
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Create a bootable USB drive from a DMG file on Windows
A Mac machine needs to be reformatted with Lion. I backed up the Lion dmg file when I purchased it via the Mac App Store.
I now need to create a bootable USB drive from the DMG file but I need to be ...
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How to Diagnose a Pre-Operating System Load or Hardware Issue
How can I find out if my problem is hardware based?
If it is, how can I figure out what component is to blame
How can I fix other pre-operating system issues?
As an aside, what are all of these ...
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Control "sequence" of startup programs in Windows
How can I control the order of startup programs in Windows? without any need of 3rd Party app. Upon searching, I came up with this article from HowToGeek.com which suggests 2 ways to do it, either ...
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How do I manage what programs startup in Windows 8?
There's a nifty new tab in the 'Task Manager' called 'Startup' where I can manage the program that run at startup.
BUT... It doesn't show all of the application that run at startup:
Some of the ...
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How do you delay the launch of an application in Windows 7 at startup?
I'd like to delay the launch of some startup apps to give it some time to load the other ones before the one I want.
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Is it possible to boot Linux from a GPT disk on a BIOS system?
I have an AMI BIOS computer [Asus EB1501P] with a Seagate ST9250315AS 250GB HDD.
Is it possible to boot Linux from a GPT disk on such a BIOS system?
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How can I display additional boot and shutdown information on the Windows 7 welcome screen?
There is a small tweak, I believe it is a registry key, that allows to display additional information on the Welcome and Shutting down screens of Windows 7 (and most likely Vista, too). I have ...
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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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Running bat file at startup as administrator in Windows 7
I'm currently running a startup script in form of a bat file successfully in Windows 7 (I've inserted a new registry key entry with the bat file path as value in
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\...
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Where is the startup (autostart) folder in Windows 8?
Well, Windows 8 has no Start Menu any more and the startup folder has disappeared also.
Where can I find that folder? Or is there a new way with Metro?