Questions tagged [boot-partition]
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Bootable partition is not shown in the boot picker or the BIOS
So i couldn’t find my USB drive anywhere, and i thought i’d install Linux from my internal hard drive. Created a new partition, formatted as FAT32, and dd-ed the image onto it.
I rebooted, and the ...
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Lost the boot partition
So hi, here is the problem:
I have windows 10 and pop os on my laptop, with dual boot. recently there was a problem with the third-party operating system selector that it wouldn't show and it directly ...
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Solus ESP to small
i'm quite new to Linux and i wanted to dualboot my laptop. I have 2 disks inside (1x 250gb SSD and a 1TB HDD).
In the installer everything is going fine untill i needed to select where i wanted Solus ...
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Is it safe to remove the driveletter of the physical drive when native-booting from a VHDX in it?
I'm trying isolate the physical disks/drives away from the VHDX booted OS. Physicals partitions can either be unmounted(drive letter removed) or the other physical disks themselves disabled.
The final ...
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imac fix boot partitions
I need to fix the boot partitions on my Imac 2012. I just resized one of these partitions and a couple of them aren't visible no more in startup boot menu.
Starting point : I had a triple-boot like ...
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Is it possible to merge the partition type of EFI System into Linux Filesystem?
The partition of my machine which is mounted at /boot is almost full, thus I cannot update my kernel anymore. Meanwhile there is another partition which is mounted at /boot/efi and it is totally free. ...
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Clone an old hard drive with multiple partitions to a new Mac
Here's my situation : my old Macbook from 2011 died on me, and the guy at the store said it was beyond repair. He could however extract the hard drive with all the data. I found an E-Sata-to-USB mount ...
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update-initramfs : Error 24 : Write error : cannot write compressed block
I'm running a custom kernel since months, with no modules, no initramfs, no initrd.
I've byed a new webcam (lockdown...), and of course it doesn't work because i've haven't the correct module. I ...
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Resizing EFI partition followed by MSR (Microsoft Reserved Partition) - Arch Linux
I have a dual boot setup (Arch/Windows 10) and after installing Windows 10 BIOS update, my ESP partition is now full. I did not follow the Arch recommendations to set the ESP partition to 550MB and I ...
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I have trouble with my usb flash memory device [duplicate]
I tried to load Windows iso file to my USB flash memory device.I had an error when the files loading. I formatted the device and repeated the process a couple of times.
Now the flash memory device is ...
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Accidentally set C: as active partition: Windows won't boot - live USB system won't boot - suddenly CPU overtemperature error?
I just accidentally set the system partition C:\ as active in Windows 7's disk management, trying to get this absolutely useless Windows backup & restore program to work. Now I can no longer boot: ...
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Can I shuffle my drive letters while changing boot sequence?
I'm running Windows 10 v2004. I just installed a new M.2 SSD drive (F) that is faster and larger than the drive my C drive is on. I have cloned C onto F (using Macrium Reflect Free) because I want to ...
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Unable to “find” HD after a botched OS install
I was attempting to install Nix OS from a live usb.
I deleted all existing partitions via gparted while installing, and recreated the partitions for the nix install (including a boot partition).
The ...
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VeraCrypt on one SSD with 1 encrypted, 1 unencrypted Windows 10 partition
I'd like to install VeraCrypt to encrypt two Windows 10 installations running on the same SSD. I've spent days trying various things, but I've only ever been partially successful. The best I managed ...
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Grub 2.04 install says it's successful but drops into the rescue shell
Our hardware is successfully running with UEFI/GRUB 2.02. The internal disk (/dev/sda) is GPT and the first partition starts at 1Mib, is 5Gb, and formatted as vfat. We are running Gentoo and using ...
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Fix cleared boot sector (and more) of exfat disk
I stupidly used dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 intending to do /dev/sdc.
I have a 1 terabyte USB drive on /dev/sdb. It is/was formated exfat.
The two partitions are showing in /proc/partitions ...
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UEFI cannot launch grub after deleting linux partition
I had set a multi partition system with ubuntu, kali and windows 10 and when i deleted both the linux distros and restarted my PC it booted into grub rescue mode (unknown filesystem).
If I hit up F12 ...
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Remove EFI System Partition & Wipe Drive 0?
Some time ago, installed a bigger SSD (1 TB M.2) to act as my OS boot disk, cloning the original OS-sporting HD (256 GB) onto it and it works fine. Recently, I wanted to try out Linux and installed ...
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Fix unknown file system grub rescue> error
When I boot normally, after the bios screen it shows
error : unknown file system
entering rescue mode...
grub rescue>_
I think it's because, I deleted the Linux(which I used to dual boot) ...
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Live-USB vs Bootable-USB vs USBwithOSonly
So much confusion amongst those three.
Say I have a Laptop with C: drive only which is crashed and not booting up..probably a corrupt MBR or MFT...and I want to recover the C:
Having not enough ...
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What is the best way to move MBR and bootmgr to new drive (Windows 10)?
I have several hard drives in my desktop but only 1 has the OS (Win 10). Here is an image of my Disk Manager:
Disk 2 (D:) is an old slow dying backup HDD.
Disk 1 (G:) is a much newer faster (...
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Does Windows 10 use 1 or 2 partitions for system files and user data?
I was wondering if Windows uses a separate partition for system files and another for personal files like Linux does?
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Deleting EFI partition after removing dual-boot CentOS
I installed CentOS 8 yesterday alongside my Windows 10 installation, and I assigned the partitions manually, creating the following: / , /home, /swap, /boot/efi.
Unfortunately, I didn't assign enough ...
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Can't get /boot partition to function, installing debian from host machine: Arch linux
I am trying to be a better Unix user. I want to dual boot my arch-linux virtual machine with Debian. I am using VirtualBox.
I am installing Debian through the arch-linux environment (https://www....
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Partitions have become inaccessible
SETUP
Dell Chromebook 13 7310 (with MrChromebox Firmware)
EFI dual boot with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 19.10
WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE THE PROBLEM EMERGED
When my laptop cannot wake up from hibernation ...
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Win 10 boot volume mirror fails: Boot configuration data could not be updated
I'm trying to add a mirror of the C:\ volume in Windows, but Disk Management gives an error:
Disk Management
The boot configuration data of the system could not be updated.
Use bcdedit.exe to update ...
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Accidentally removed boot partition for Windows. How can I recover?
While doing some operation on Ubuntu I accidentally removed boot partition for Windows and now I can’t run Windows again and was unable to run the recovery for Windows 10.
Here’s what I have tried:
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How to mark a GPT Partition bootable under Linux
How to boot from a GPT Partition?
Is it like the MBR way that needs a partition that has the bootable flag on?
How to mark a GPT Partition bootable under Linux?
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Win10 - Cloned disk to SSD - how do I identify which EFI system partition is in use?
I got a new Asus laptop with Win10 home. Installed a m.2 SATA ssd and cloned the original hdd to the ssd copying all partitions (and resizing the OS partition to the smaller SSD size). Then in the ...
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Ubuntu moving grub
I need to expand partition with Ubuntu, but in the middle of the drive there is a boot partition. I tried using GParted but there's no option of realocating the grub2. I found some information on ...
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How to setup docker on ubuntu desktop to use folder outside boot?
I want to use docker to run a couple of dockerized 'apps/services' from time to time on my laptop running ubuntu 18.04. I have a boot partition with 100 gb (50gb occupied) and a 900 gb home folder ...
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The directory is not empty when using mountvol to mount efi partition
I followed the answers to this question but none of them seem to work. When I use mountvol E: /s I get the error "The directory is not empty" even though it is empty and I've formatted it multiple ...
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UEFI Where is the boot code and GUID partition table stored?
I'm reading this article and I'm very confused over what the autor sais in the section "Managing partitions and security: BIOS vs UEFI"
quote:
Unlike BIOS, UEFI stores in the firmware itself both ...
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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 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 to ...
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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 ...
