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I have installed remix os. which is a linux based os. the installation was successful but i cannot boot to remix os. the grub boot menu is not displayed, windows is derectly loading. i have disabled secure boot. turned os legacy support. the bcd entry is present.
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Greetings all. (Bits of this could belong in Troubleshooting, too.) For the past year and a half, since I built my most recent system, I ran it using a dual Win 10 boot setup. I have two 500GB SSD drives, one internal, that I use for my work, the other in a SATA 6gbps dock built into my case. (It's sort of a discipline thing, so I'm less tempted to game while doing work. When working, the game drive is disconnected.) The way I did this the first time, was to install Win10 on one SSD as normal, get it up to a baseline setup, then I cloned the drive, and just selected the drive I wanted to use as I booted. This was fine for over a year, but lately, the internal SSD (work one) has been getting lots of drive errors, every time I'd load up the gaming drive, it would complain that the work drive needed to be fixed, and my next boot to the work either wouldn't boot into windows, or would run chkdsk before doing so. Now that work drive won't boot into windows at all. It loads SOMETHING of Win10, as I see those spinning dots, indicating that Windows is loading, it just never moves past that point. Attempting a repair from an install USB does nothing. My first thought was that the SSD may be going bad, but I've run multiple diagnostics in multiple apps, and all say the drive is fine. I can get all my data off of it via the gaming drive (still works just fine!), so I'm ok with having to reinstall Windows, which brings me to my real question. (Though if you do know how I'd be able to reboot the work drive, I'd love to know!) Is there any way to run two Win10 installs on separate drives on the same machine and get them to play nicer with eachother than the way I did it the first time? I realize I had a lot leading up to that question, but I needed to provide some context. Thank you in advance for the help. ----------- PC Specs: CPU: Intel Core i7 6700K RAM: 32GB DDR4 GPU: EVGA Geforce GTX 980 MOBO: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 (Rev: 1.0) With latest firmware) Boot SSD: 2x Samsung 500GB SATA Storage HDD: Western Digital 3TB HDD Case: Corsair 650D OS: Windows 10 Pro
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Basically my goal is to run Windows 10 and be able to dual boot to Mac OS X, preferably id like to be able to install the latest High Sierra but if not its whatever, anything above 10+ i think would suffice! Ive done and tried Mac OS X on VMware and its just so laggy from software to possible hardware updates required on the Mac side of things, i would like to be able to install OS X on my external HDD, to make internal eventually and be able to run it without this lag issue as it takes like 10sec to process any commands like simply loading up an app or program or just the About option. BUILD: CPU - Intel i7-6700k RAM - 32GB of Vengeance® LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 DRAM 3200MHz C16 MOBO - MSI 170A GAMING M5 GPU - Asus STRIX AMD R9 380 4GB Storage - Crucial 256GB SSD, Samsung 250GB SSD, WL 3TB HDD, + Toshiba 320GB External HDD (Will Be For Mac OS X, If My System Is Compatible) So, if your able to assist me on setting this up to work properly, or if im even able to if my hardware is compatible id really appreciate any and all support for this. Thanks for your time! -
So I have a PC that I built and I have recently moved back in with my parents and took over their office. I was wondering if I could take the hard drive they have in their old PC and run it in my PC without affecting my hard drives, OS, and etc. And if it is possible, would there me an easy way to switch/pick between the two drives without having to go into the BIOS and choose every time I turn it on; they are not super tech savvy so I want to make it easy for them? And am I correct in assuming that I will have to uninstall and re-download drivers that match my build? Also, will doing this have any affect on the speed of my PC (I know it may take longer to boot, but I am more concerned for gaming and everyday operation)? Or should I just leave their PC alone and put it separate from mine?
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This saturday I formatted my system and reinstalled windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1. After installation I was not facing any problem. But this tuesday I installed Ubuntu GNOME 16.04.2 x64 on another HDD on my system. I have 2 HDDs one for windows and other for LINUX on the same system. But after a day i noticed that the time of Ubuntu is fine but in Windows it lags behind 6 and half hours from the actual time. As the time in Ubuntu is fine then I think its not the CMOS battery's fault. Please help me fixing this. I have to change it everytime when ever I boot into windows. Hope anyone here can help.
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So this is something I've been racking my brain with for a while now and with my increased usage for the LTT forums because you guys seem to be at least HALF competent I think I'm going to ask it here. I made a mistake involving my duel boot in which I set things up so that my HDD has the windows startup file (forget what the name of it is as I haven't seen it in a while and I can't find it by looking it up now for some reason) and my SSD has the actual OS. Kinda sucks as I never actually ended up using a second OS. This problem came from the installation process of windows 7. Essentially I would like to move the windows startup file to my SSD in a location where it will be detected. Thank you for your help.
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ok guys i f***ed up. i dual booted my pc with linux and win 7. linux worked for one day then would not load. kept getting an error saying some sh**. then my win 7 started acting funny, so i decided what hte hell just gonna delete the partition and volume and stick with win 7. well after deleting the partition and volume im like ok now how do i unshink the partition and reallocate the space or what ever its called and i got a message hey dude you need to restart so you can finish the some sh**. well upon restarting my rig i get greeted by a new message saying no such device: 0a5ccc3f yadda yadda entering rescue mode grub rescue> and i can type code that i dont know XD. so yea if anyone can help that would be great cuz yea. i cant get past the error for the grub menu since i couldnt get into ubuntu to do anything with it. please and thank you. would add a pic of it but dont know what all the code at the top is, if its my activation code for windows or my serial number. all i knows is its not being put on here XD. thanks guy you allways help me. ps i have skype if the problem is to hard to solve via typing on here pm me if you need to skype about this f**k up
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I have a Mac Mini 2011 Server that is Dual booted to Windows via EFI and using a few bootcamp drivers. I have recently Increased the amount of Vram to my graphics card {Intel HD 3000} by changing the ".kext" files from 512 MB to 2048 MB. http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/how-to-increase-vram-for-hd3000-graphics.1766384/ I was wondering if this would be carried over to the Windows OS side? The reason I ask this is becuase I have done it in the past and figured it would carrie over. Due to OSX Sierra resting the change I had made previously {in Mavericks} and resting in back to 512 MB. But what shocked me is when I checked my dedcated Memory on Windows and it only read 32 MB.
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Hey guys, I've been looking everywhere for solution, this is actually for my friend's computer, not mine. My current machine: 1. "Nettop" from 2009: running xubuntu 16.04, atom 330, 2GB DDR2, 500GB HDD. 2. Acer E5-574G: dual boot xubuntu 16.04 and win10, 6200u, 12GB ram, 240GB SSD. 1st one is of course not using an uefi bios, so install is really simple, just install and good to go 2nd one is using uefi, but still not hard at all, just put grubx64.efi as trusted in uefi menu **Actual question start here:** My friend's laptop (Acer Z1402-31ZJ)- i3-5005U,4GB RAM,1TB HDD After installing Ubuntu 16.04, it boot directly to windows 10. I know that's normal, so I tell him to add grubx64.efi as trusted. But this is the laptop eufi menu. I have no clue. Seriously. Thanks for the help in advance. Pictures are attached below. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B064pHHFjm71enJhMXZWWkI4UDQ -
I have an old Sony VPCEH25EN laptop currently on dual boot Linux and Windows. My laptop came with Windows 7 Home Basic. It included a Quick Web Access button and a Linux based OS only for browsing the Internet. It went away when I installed Windows 10. The button still responds but reports me that it's missing a software. Now my question is can I assign a normal Windows boot when clicking the power button and a Linux boot whenever I press the WEB button? -
So I want a fresh windows without getting rid of my old one. My Windows key is bound to my Microsoft account. If I partition my drive, install the Windows 10 ISO on the new partition, and then sign in, would it unauthorize Windows on the first partition.
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Hey guys, long-time lurker here. I'm in the process of building a new gaming rig, and due to the nature of my work (I work for a fast-paced AI firm as their Web Developer/Digital Prod Manager) I spend a lot of time sitting behind a computer screen for non-gaming reasons. I've found that in recent months my interest in PC gaming has steadily declined, which I'm attributing to the fact that every time I wake my rig I'm reminded of work (due to MS Teams always being open, the files and folders littering my desktop, etc.). I like what I do, but I need more of an escape from reality when it's time to play. So, my first thought is to partition my boot drive and dual boot Windows—one install for work, another for play. Is there a downside to partitioning a boot SSD? I'm not sure how this might affect performance. Would it be better if I simply had two separate boot drives? Also, because it's been 10 years since I had a dual boot system (mac book pro with windows installed) - can you access other SSDs or HDDs from BOTH Windows instances? All in all, I'm just wondering if this is potentially a very bad idea. Thanks! -
what will the file size size be of just windows 10 and 7 together?
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Hi LTT forums. I recently bought an nvme m.2 ssd so I could dual boot windows 10 and debian 9 on my alienware 15. I intend to mostly use debian but I still need to keep windows for gaming. While windows is detecting the new drive just fine, the debian installer can't detect the drive and when I try opening a shell and trying 'fdisk -l' it doesn't even detect the disk. To be clear, I want to set up a new debian partition and swap partition on the nvme drive and leave the other two drives that came with my laptop unaltered. Anyone have ideas as to why the debian installer isn't detecting the drive? -
Hello everyone I have been struggling with a problem the whole day and can't figure it out. My specs: 2200g 2070 MSI Armor 2x8 gb corsair 3000MHz Thermaltake smart 750W MSI gaming plus mobo b450 I wanted to dual boot linux and windows so I decided to install linux on my second HDD(windows is on SSD). I installed it and then I could not boot into windows so I reinstalled windows. So far so good. Then when I got into windows my screen starts to go solid, random colors randomly. I figured its a driver problem so I removed driver with DDU and reinstalled it, no avail. So I switched to my mobo's HDMI output but I can't get it to working, formatted windows bunch of times, ran chkdsk and did secure erase on ssd and reinstalled windows, nope. One time it seemed to work fine, I plugged my hdmi to GPU and ran a benchmark, temps did seemed fine (60-70 max) and average 40 fps on 1080p extreme, so I don't think(hope) my gpu is dead. Then it started to do it again, but this time only happened when I opened/closed any program. Screen would go black for 2-5 seconds and come back. Then I checked event logs thru device manager. It showed nvidia driver would stop working but recovered succesfully, everytime the screen went black. I don't have any more ideas, should I send the gpu back? What else can I do?
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Hello I am trying to dual boot Windows 10 and Manjaro. I have dual booted before with a lot of distros like Ubuntu arch rhel etc how ever Manjaro just does not seem to work when ever I install it and reboot it is booting straight to windows instead of showing me the grub loader to select a OS I have followed the following tutorial as well : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mddQE-g_5mk
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Last night, I managed to install OpenSuse inplace of Ubuntu desktop. The problem is though is that even though its installed I don't see the grub menu to choose between the two systems... it just boots into Windows 10. The windows 10 install is on a separate SSD, and the OpenSuse install is on an 80gb partition on a second drive. What am I missing? -
Alright so I've been eager to get into macOS so I installed a VM on my Win7 laptop and now I wish to dual boot it with Mojave. I am not gonna be using win10 as its updates are uncontrollable and it doesn't run well on my laptop anyway. I am gonna be using the same disk with different partitions. I went on to download macOS Mojave from the App Store to create a bootable USB but ended up using the macOS Mojave patcher to create one. Its formatted as macOS extended journaled but oooopsiees I didn't knew about Clover at the time. Now I am wondering if I can "squeeze" in Clover into the hence created bootable Mojave USB so I could save my 3 hours that went into it. P.S Don't worry about my EFI partition cuz for some odd reason windows created it to be of 300MB lmao and I can follow with some tinkering and terminal shiz. Have a look at my partition layout and my awesome Snipping Tool skillz.
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I recently ran i to a situation where my primary drive suddenly wouldn't boot, and I ended up replacing the drive and reinstalling Mint successfully. FWIW, the previous disk is fully functional when I mount it as a USB drive, but still couldn't boot from it. Now that I have a bit of time, I'd like to treat this as a learning experience regarding how grub/efi and dual boot w/Windows actually worked on my previous install, but I'm struggling to understand the nuts and bolts. Would anyone be willing to spend some time with me walking through my previous config to see (a) how the whole config was set up and working, (b) what broke and how to fix it?, and (c) how to add my windows boot back into the new setup. Anyone will to spend a little time pointing me in the right direction(s)? The previous issue is documented here: -
Im trying to set up a need boot drive on my pc i have a new ssd with a fresh windows 10 install that i can boot from and i can see my other drives but im not sure how to access my stuff or inport my desktop.
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After watching latest video about Linux adventures, I installed Pop OS, but want to do some tweaks. 1. How to hide GRUB and set Windows to default? 2. How to create icon or shortcut in Windows to boot to Pop? 3. Is there better alternative to GRUB?
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Hi, i previously had installed ubuntu as a dual boot with windows 10 on my lenovo yoga 2 pro (i7, 8gb ram, 256gb ssd). But i eventually decided to get rid of it after some file issues and just not being happy/interested in the distro. So i booted into windows deleted the linux partitions and changed the boot sequence, but i think my genius (sarcasm) ass took the stupid way out as the Ubuntu option is still in the boot menu when i went to change the boot sequence and when i go to boot from a usb. Now when i try to boot manjaro from a bootable usb it says "error: unknown file system, entering rescue disk..., grub rescue>" which i also read up on and comes up like this as an issue when uninstalling an os when dual booting it with windows 10. NOW the question is does anyone know a way to fix the grub bootloader to allow it to boot a usb/ know a way to completely remove the grub loader option so it doesn't show up on the boot menu which is what i think i need to do so that it can boot live manjaro usb again. (i also already tried doing "ls, ls (hd0)/" to find the partition with linux but since the partitions are deleted it doesn't work and i have no clue where grub is sitting, also i tried resetting the mbr in cmd and that did not work as well) Sorry for the long backstory but i figured it was needed to understand tldr: to uninstall a dual boot with ubuntu i just deleted the partitions, now ubuntu is still an option on my boot menu and when i try to run a bootable linux usb it says unknown filesystem, please help thanks -
Hello my fellow pcmr I´ve been having an issue with my windows install i have a 120 gig ssd which I use as my boot drive for my gaming pc and a few days ago I decided to dual boot with manjaro linux and the installation went smoothly but my pc would only boot to windows because my mobo´s bios doesn´t recognize partitions as bootable drives (Im not sure if any do) so i activaded the windows boot manager following this tutorial yet i only followed the first comand prompt steps before rebooting (without adding any oses to the manager) and now I´m stuck in a page saying "This device is not bootable please insert a bootable floppy and press any key" If anybody knows how to fix this please tell me and dont hesitate to ask for more information if I missed any details,Thank you in advance. -
DUAL GRAPHICS CARD non SLI SET UP Hey everyone! So I'm new here but I needed to ask an important question! So, Effectively I just can't stand apple anymore, mostly due to cost vs spec and lack of good customer care, and have decided to move over to PC's. I do a lot of music production and I exclusively use Logic Pro X and honestly prefer MAC OSX software to windows, HOWEVER, I also LOVE gaming and have wanted a gaming PC for quite a while, So after doing my research I've decided to go for an Intel i9 9900k, Z390 Meg Ace, DDR4 Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO 2x16gb ram, The tricky part is gonna be Graphics Card's I really want to get an MSI 2080 Ti, But I'm not sure how long it will be till that card has Hackintosh Drivers Released, But I really love it's gaming spec, I also through research found it's a lot easier to use AMD graphics Cards, So where my question lies is, would it be possible, to run a dual boot set up OSX on one SSD and Windows on the other, in a way that only uses one graphics card while in OSX and the 2080ti in windows,? or would it have to have both linked at all times? If not, can anyone offer some alternative advice? Thanks in advance for all your help, Darrell
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Hello guys, here is my situation: I'm currently building my first PC and I am struggling with my dual boot options (I am completely new to this and have never installed an OS before=. I have 2 "500GB Samsung SSDs" on which I want to install the OS( Windows and Linux) and I want two use the 1TB HDD as storage that is viewable from both OS (SSDs). 1. Do I have all drives connected during the whole process? I was reading about disconnecting windows SSD when installing linux. 2. Can the two SSD see each other? (Is it possible to disable the SSDs from seeing each other?) 3.Do I need to do something specific with the HDD for booth OS to see it? 4.Can I just follow normal instructions for installing the OS or do I need to follow somethin specific? 5. Any pitfalls I need to know about??? Thank you in advance!
