Boot (or booting) refers to the action of starting up a computer and getting it to run the operating system.
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c000021a BSOD on Windows 7 boot
I guess I can't since I'm getting the error message:
The version of System Recovery Options is not compatible with this version of Windows you're trying to repair. Try using a recovery disc that ...
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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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Resurrecting an old computer. Powers on, does not boot
I have an old Dell Optiplex GX1 that I want to revive. If I plug it in, the power comes on. However, the power switch has no effect (can't turn it on or off, have to unplug it to stop power). I ...
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How to recover corrupted Windows XP installation?
I have a Netbook without a CD rom which has been running Windows XP.
I decided to install Linux on it to run a dual setup, however that somehow corrupted my Windows installation, probably because of ...
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Keyboard not working in boot menu
I am using an Asus P8Z68-M Pro motherboard and a PS/2 Keyboard. My keyboard does not work in boot menus like when I'm selecting an OS and when selecting which kind of Windows safe mode to use. The ...
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After Windows Update - Cannot Boot in Windows 8 Pro
I have a fresh install of Windows 8 Pro on a new PC and have done for some weeks. On Friday I hit the shutdown option Update and Restart. On the Saturday (yesterday) I turned on my machine to greeted ...
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What is the `/etc/hostname` used/required for?
I found in the /etc/hostname my IP-address, than I deleted it and each time I use sudo - I get a message and a system email sudo: unable to resolve host (none) or if in the /etc/hostname is saved ...
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Windows 7 on bootable flash
I have two quick questions, I used the Windows USB tool to put ISO on my flash drive, but it made me delete everything first. Do you know why this is?
Also, once I have Windows on there, is it okay ...
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Windows Seven no boot sector
The story
A friend got a virus (rootkit) on their windows seven install and I offered to try and fix it (the virus was the google redirect tdss rootkit). After many attempts I finally got rid of it ...
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Computer stopped booting after I tried to allocate a drive to unallocated space
I installed Ubuntu on my Windows 7 yesterday and after that I booted to Windows. After that as I saw an unallocated space while installing Ubuntu, I tried to allocate that unallocated space to make it ...
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ubuntu12.04 hangs at checking battery state
My 12.04 system hangs at "Checking battery state". At this stage, no commands work eg: ctrl+alt+f1, alt+f5. I ran recovery mode, I ran the command
sudo mount -o remount, rw
sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm
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Windows 7 EFI Partition Deleted
I converted my Windows 7 GPT disk to dynamic, which resulted in it being unable to boot. So I used EaseUs Partition Master on my second Win 7 installation to convert the disk back to basic. Now, I ...
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Windows Recovery partition unusable after Ubuntu 12.04 install on Eee PC 1005P
Installed Ubuntu 12.04 over the secondary (D:) partition with Grub2 handling multi-boot. Never accessed the 'Recovery' option in the boot menu until Windows7 Starter became unusable due to HDD failure ...
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Lenovo ideaPad s10-2 - Boot.ini numproc
I'm using a Lenovo ideaPad s10-2 with Windows XP Home.
What is the default value of numproc under Boot.ini? (run >msconfig >boot.ini)
Thanks.
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Some USB drives not showing in BIOS
I have a GA-MA790FXT-UD5P motherboard. I have an old USB drive that it will boot from just fine. I have two (identical) newer ones, but they will not boot. I found out that the newer ones aren't even ...
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Windows 7 will not boot after sleep
As the title says. My PC with windows 7 will not boot up correctly after going into sleep mode and failing to wake up.
From what I can tell this is a common problem with the motherboard ASUS P6T ...
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Hardware doesn't work some times at boot time
I have an Asus n51vf laptop. I bought it not long time ago (less than a month) and installed Windows 7 on it. Since that it wasn't new when I bought it, I don't know, if the problem was occuring ...
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Why boot fails with bios SATA Mode as AHCI?
In a nutshell, I am trying to figure out for some Jetway engineers and myself, why the custom bios they made me does not allow SATA devices to boot in AHCI mode.
Obviously, this is difficult to ask ...
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Clearing the CMOS fixed my computer but I want to know why it was necessary
After a shutdown my PC would turn on, but would not boot (nothing appeared on the monitor). I cleared the CMOS on my motherboard via the jumper, and then was able to enter the BIOS setup menu and ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 only boots to Recovery Console
I was bringing up a server this morning, and all it will do is boot to the recovery agent, giving the following options:
Restore a backup image, Memory Check, Command Prompt, shutdown, restart.
The ...
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dmesg.log on Mac OS X
Mac OS X does not seem to dump the exact output of dmesg to a file. I need to log the dump of dmesg to the disk.
kernel.log and system.log do not contain the required information. Only output of ...
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unetbootin (syslinux?) — adding memtest86 to my bootable USB drive
The only way I have been able to reliably load a windows install disc onto USB is using Unetbootin and a FAT32 formatted drive. I do this because it is significantly faster to install windows this way ...
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Bootloader on USB flash drive, data on USB HDD
It might sound absurd, but I'd like to configure a bootloader on a USB flash drive to load from a removable HDD.
The reason why is that the data fits on the HDD (where it has its own partition) but it ...
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Can't Boot With SSD As Cache
I have an issue where I can't boot into Windows 7 using a Crucial M4 SSD as cache. I have two Caviar Blue's in a RAID1, and the SSD is set as the cache.
The motherboard is an MSI Z68A-GD65 B3.
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Boot messages on both VGA and serial console
I use RHEL6 (with GRUB and upstart from Ubuntu) and want to put boot messages on my normal VGA console as well on serial port.
I got GRUB to put messages on one of them, but not on both at same time.
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Windows 7 Boots up fine in Safe mode with Network, Normal Bootup just shows black screen with cursor How to troubleshoot?
As the title says, I get a black screen with a cursor.
If I boot into safemode with networking, all is fine.
I've disabled all startup items in msconfig, but not sure what I should do next. Any ...
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bcdedit /deletevalue safeboot error
I cannot boot into my Windows version due to a virus, I was able to boot into another partitioned copy of Windows and access msconfig, which I then selected the virus ridden partitioned and checked ...
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Booting Linux from USB - countdown repeating
I have a Windows computer that I am trying to convert to Linux. I have downloaded the .iso file from Linux Mint 14 and have used UNetbootin to convert my USB to a bootable drive.
I choose to boot ...
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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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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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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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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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What is rootfs# and what can you do with it?
I have been dropped to a [rootfs /]# prompt many times when booting my Arch Linux distro failed. Usually I found I couldn't fix the problem with the limited commands available, so I would use any ...
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Home Debian install no longer boots
After almost a year of working wonderfully, my home computer has suddenly stopped. I thought it was a thermal issue: from cold I could login and even maybe start firefox before it would freeze (screen ...
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BSOD - “replacing invalid security ID with default security ID” - Cannot boot to windows, black screen
I was working away on my computer when it suddenly blue screened. It's maybe done that once many months ago. Upon Reboot it began running checkdisk, moving orphaned files and then it got to this ...
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What is the use of the [BOOT]/Bootable_NoEmulation.img file on several boot images?
I've seen a file called [BOOT]/Bootable_NoEmulation.img on several boot images, and always wondered what it's use is. Neither found a suitable magic number nor could Google help me so I ask here.
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Debian testing hangs for 180s on boot
For a while now, my NAS running Debian testing with arch x86_64 constantly hangs for exactly 180s during boot after it has detected all hard drives. I unfortunately ran out of ideas what the cause ...
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Windows 7 - bcdedit shows device and osdevice = unknown
I recently added a new 2 TB drive to my desktop, and reordered how SATA cables were plugged into my motherboard for my other 3 disks (moving some to SATA 6 gb/s port on motherboard etc). This new ...
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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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Dell Precision 690 workstation - Boot device not found
My Dell Precision 690 workstation has stopped booting into Windows 7 altogether.
About a week ago, the BIOS started giving me a message that the amount of memory had changed from the default ...
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After installing upstart Raspberrypi gets stuck in boot
I recently installed upstart blindly replacing things I shouldn't of been. The results was that now my raspberry pi is stuck on
Setting up X socket directories... /tmp/.X11-unix /tmp/.ICE-unix
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Troubleshooting old motherboard USB boot
Today I faced a situation I'm not clear how to try to get around. I will have to perform a maintenance operation on a pair of Win 98 computers weekly. In that operation I will need to input and ...
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CentOS Freezes on Startup
I'm very new to Linux, so please go easy!
I created a Linux install on VMWare Workstation 8 in order to install a piece of software called OpenClinica. The program is Java based and depends on ...
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black screen with blinking cursor
I wanted to downgrade a computer from Windows 8 to Windows 7. When I tried to install using Windows 7 installation disk on boot, and I tried to install on a partition, I would get
windows cannot be ...
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hp g7 screen dark on login need corrective action
I have a HP g7 that's running Fedora 17 which has a dark unlit screen on login. I need the exact keystrokes I need to type in order to sign in, so that I don't need to use a flash light to see the ...
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command at boot, before another script
This should be an easy question, but as a solaris novice, I'm stuck.
I have to launch a change MAC address command at boot (i.e. ifconfig bge0 ether).
If I do this at terminal, everything goes smooth.
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PC won't boot from flash drive after computer hibernated (grub on hdd corrupt too)
I had 3 OS installed: Windows 7 , Fedora 17 and Mageia 2 in my Acer Aspire 4253 laptop.
I deleted the partition of Mageia and my grub got corrupted.
I didn't have an installation DVD of either Win7 ...
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Did I kill windows boot manager? I can't boot after installing FreeBSD
I installed freebsd with dual-booting. I specified an empty partition for freebsd auto-configuring.
After it was installed, windows boot manager disappeared.
What's going on? Should I recover it, or ...
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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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Toshiba Notebook Won't Boot
I have a 16 month old Toshiba Notebook NB525-00H. I replaced the original 1GB memory card with a Crucial 2GB memory upgrade (2GB 204-PIN DDR3 SODIMMPC3-10600 CL3). I was very careful not to touch the ...
