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I can only see my second hard drive (in the bios and in Windows 8.1) after I press ctrl + alt + del after pressing F11 to select boot option. This is the fastest way, but I could boot windows and press restart if I wanted too. Nevertheless, I can't see my second hard drive until I soft restart. If I do a cold boot, I can't see it. Once it shows up, the read/write is totally normal, and on any other computer, it works as it should. It's only on this one that it does this weird thing. Even if no other hard drive is in, It only works upon restart. any help is appreciated. Here are my specs: Intel Core-i3 4150 3.5 GHz Asrock B85M Pro4 Motherboard EVGA Nvidia GeForce 750 Ti 16GB DDR3 Ram (4x4GB by Hynix) (not official site) Hard drives (couldn't find official sites): Seagate ST3750528AS (working fine) Seagate ST3320613AS (the weird one) I tried other cables, but to no avail. Can anyone help me?
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So for obvious reasons Ive been wanting upgrade to Windows 10 on my laptop. However, for other reasons that aren't necessarily relevant I DO want to keep Windows 8 on it... interesting predicament. I was wondering if anyone has experience dual booting operating systems on a laptop. I'm assuming it's fairly simple? (Install 10 ISO on a USB Drive, create a partition in system memory, etc. Etc.)I'm sure I'm not the only one to think of this, but I just wanted to get people's opinions and experiences. Thanks so much.
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I'm building a new computer, hoping to dual boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu. Should I get 2 120GB SSD's for each OS with a 1TB hard drive or just put them both on one bigger SSD?
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Is it possible to install Windows XP Pro 32-bit on my existing SSD that contains Windows 7 Pro 64-bit on two different partitions without any harm to the existing OS? Well let me rephrase that. I just installed WinXP on the same harddrive that my Win7 is installed on, but in another partition; did I damage the Win7 OS? If not, how can I boot to my Win7 because it keeps booting to my XP. I don't have the slightest clue why I didn't think before installing XP.
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As the title suggests, I'd like to install OS X alongside of my Windows 8.1 installation. I have absolutely no idea how to do this, or where to start. Most, if not all, tutorials I've seen require having a Mac/some legit copy of Apple's OS. I have neither. I know there are .isos that can be downloaded, I just don't know if those work with making a hackintosh for whatever reason. I have an AMD 8350, a GTX 970 and 8 gbs of ram. Any information/tutorial links would be appreciated
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I have a amd system dual boot with Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. I want to change to the skylake system but I want to retain by dual boot setup. Will my configuration be still intact despite my change in hardware? Thanks in advance
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Im thinking of dual booting my late 2010 macbook air (1.86ghz core 2 duo, 4gb ram, and gtx 320m) because when playing games I'm not getting ideal performance in games like league of legends and other non-demanding titles. I've heard that there is better performance on windows for games. Anyone have any ideas or tips?
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basically I want to triple boot Linux, Windows, and OS X Yosemite. I already have three different boot drives but I want to be able use my WD Red 2 TB as a hard drive that is readable across all three Operating Systems. Is this possible in any way? I understand certain files such as .dmgs would not be able to be opened on windows but it would be useful for documents etc. Has anybody done this before?
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The title of this posting really say it all. I am going to to get the Quantum View 10.1 tablet. If you don't know what tablet I am talking about, Google is your friend. Ask him. The tablet comes preinstalled with Windows 8 or 8.1, doesn't matter. I saw a video from MW Technology who dual booted a PC to run Windows 8 and beyond and OS X and beyond. He did this from a PC that did not have any OS pre-installed. Hope fully you get where I'm going with this and how my question is clear simple: Can I dual boot my tablet to have Windows 8 and OS X? It is powerful enough to run the Operating Systems and I do have the storage. If anyone could help me, that would be greatly appreaciated. Also, some links to the websites to where I could execute my plan would also be nice and some instructions would also be nice. -Thanks ProHacker1337 AKA Noah A
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I was Curious if anyone knows if this works or if anyone has tried this, partitioning a ssd or hdd with both windows 7 and 10. can you still choose to boot either one, does the partitioning work. If this works I plan to do it on my desktop pc.
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Ok so i have used my copy of windows 7 ultimate house party edition on many computer, probably 5-10. The last time that i used it was the first time that i had to call to make it genuine, this was about a month ago. However i now need to use it again to dual boot it on my macbook, bu i am worried that it either wont work or it will and i will have to call again which is fine but i am worried that if it activates and works they will take it off of my current desktop. Also do you guys think that this will work and they will allow me to use it again as i have heard of many people who have use their keys tons of times with no issues, but basically i really dont want to risk having windows removed of blocked from my current desktop.
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I have a Macbook Pro w Retina. It's awesome, but it only has a 128 Gig ssd. I can get a 256 Gig sd card for it to expand storage. Would it be fast enough to support a full Windows installation on it, and dual boot with OSX? I think this would be really cool if it could, but I don't want a slow and sluggish experience. Thanks!
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CPUIntel i5 3570 MotherboardASRock H77 Pro4/MVP RAM8 Gigabytes G.Skill Ripjaws GPUSapphire Dual X 7970 CaseNZXT Phantom 410 StorageSamsung 840 120 Gig SSD. WD Caviar Black 1 TB. WD Hybrid 2TB. PSUAntec High Current Gamer 520 Watts Display(s)2 Dell u2412m CoolingStock Cpu Fan KeyboardCooler Master Quickfire Stealth Cherry Mx Browns MouseAlienware TactX Sound2.1 Sony Speakers Circa 2007 Operating SystemWindows 7 I am currently dual booting windows 7 and ubuntu on my pc. I recently acquired a macbook pro with retina and realized that now I have a source of osx in order to make a hackintosh. I know that with hackintoshes, they are specific about the components. Would it be relatively easy to make my computer a hackintosh?
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Sobi recently installed ubuntu on my pc alongside windows 8.1 and it says i am able to choose operating system at startup but it just boots straight into Windows. What do i do?
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Hello, Anyone have any good suggestions for a tutorial for setting up a dual-boot with Win 8.1 and Mint? I have my OS on an SSD linked up with a Harddrive. I want to install Mint on the harddrive. I'm going to take a guess and tell me if I ****ed up- I partition the hdd separating ~30gb of unallocated space. Then I download the ISO file onto a USB flashdrive, and then enter the bios. Tell it to boot from the USB, then go through with the installation making sure that it installs onto the new 'drive'. If the above is correct, do I have to go to the bios every time I want to change the OS I'm using? Thanks in advance! Not sure if it matters, but my Mobo is the Z97 Extreme 4 from Asrock.
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So i have a dual boot system on my computer with w7 and w8. And i want to disable w7's disk check because its ruining the system files on w8. Is there a way to permanently disable dskchk?
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I'm planning to dual boot windows and osx yosemite on my newly built rig (already have windows on it), I've been using unibeast and I'm not stuck on the boot loader trying to get to the actual mac osx installer, and I've tried every possible boot parameters, and to no avail whenever I try something (without verbose) it just flashes a gray screen with an apple logo in the centre for a split second then goes black and then the system reboots I've tried almost every possible combination of boot flags, and I switch from the gpu to the integrated graphics, but it still gives no results :L I've got an msi z97 lga 1150 board, an i5 4690k with an msi gtx 970,and I heard that yosemite had support for the new maxwell cards, so I picked a 970. I've got 2x8gb 1600mhz ram. I'm trying to install it to a 512gb crucial mx100 ssd which has been split into two, half of it was allocated to windows and the other is unallocated. then I have 2 wd blues 1tb each, one has windows stuff on it already and the other one is unallocated planning to put mac stuff there. (all the specs are in my siggy) If anyone has this config and has successfully got into osx with it, pls help
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Hey Whats a good solution to run multiple OS's easily I'm looking for a flexible PC storage setup so i can easily switch between OS's and Hypervisors. Fun and work... Am looking at things like http://www.icydock.com/goods.php?id=169 or motherboard ability to switch on a HDD Even considered Hypervisor passthrough to dedicate hardware to a VM Any good ideas or experiences out there? cheers
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Hi, Well it appears that I've broken windows. I had an install of windows 7 on one SSD and an install of Windows 10 on another, but it annoyed me that the documents / download / pictures / other folders where i save stuff and also the default save place for things were different. So I decided to move both of the "Users" folder to the same place (i now realise this was a bad idea) A few hours later, booting into command prompt and moving the folders and creating symlinks to the new place and I'm unable to login onto either OS... I have an image of my Win7 install and I only just installed Win10 so I don't really care about saving / recovering the information, but I was wondering what the best way to install two OS's, to have the normal, user accessible files available to both. I think moving the files to the exact same location has screwed up all of the installed programs (especially if I installed the same program on both OS's). I know I can move the documents, pictures, downloads folders to where ever, but most programs default their save path to "../Users/[PC_name]/" as a default save directory, which I wanted to be the same place. I have two Samsung EVO 250Gb SSD's. Would you suggest: A. partitioning one and installing both OS's on it and move the docs / downloads to the second SSD? B. Installing one OS on each. But then what would I do with the user folders? (documents for both on one SSD, and pictures on the either etc?) C. RAID 0 them (to create a single partition of 500Gb), then partition it into two, one for each OS? (has the same problem with option B) D. RAID 0 them, create three partitions, 100Gb for each OS and a third of 300Gb for docs/pics/downloads folders? E. other??? Thanks heaps AusTempest
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Hi Guys! I have the following problem: I've installed Windows 7 and 8 in dual boot on one machine. I've installed Faronics Deep Freeze Standard on both partitions to protect the system from alterings. So far, everything worked great. When the system was turned on, you would see a BIOS-like screen where you could choose the OS. I later updated Windows 8 to 8.1 via the store and since then, the problem started. When I turn on the machine now, Windows 8.1 starts and presents its OWN bootloader (GUI-like where I can choose the OS with the mouse pointer). Anyway, if I choose Windows 7, it will just reboot and present the bootloader again, Windows 8.1 is booting without problems, but Win 7 is not booting at all. I've found out that this has something to do with Deep Freeze on the Win 8.1 partition. If i "thaw" the Win 8.1 partition, I'm actually able to boot into W7, otherwise (when frozen), it will only present the Win 8.1 GUI-bootloader and boot into W 8.1. Seems like the fast-boot feature from W8.1 and the sh**ty bootloader actually have to write files to the W8 partition, even if I want to boot W7. Has somebody of you guys made similar experiences? Does somebody know what to do? I would be very glad if someone could help me here. I recently switched position in my company and now I have to maintain about 10 to 15 workstations, which all will have the same problem. Fortunately, I only updated one so far... ;-) I know this is a very specific problem, but i don't know where else to ask, and this community seems to be one of the most competent and reliable I know. Greetings to all of you! bs_180
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Hey everyone, I've been an Apple user for 28 years, ever since I could hold my own sippy cup. This is the first time I've ever thought I could take on the task of building my own computer, thanks to countless hours of YouTube tutorials from the likes of Linus and others. I've already ordered the parts with help from a build made on PCPartPicker, and the items are below: NZXT H440 MidTower Chassis Intel Core i5-4670k EVGA GeForce GTX770 (02G-P4-3771-KR) w/ backplate ASUS Sabertooth Z87 ASUS PB278Q Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB (4x4) 1866MHz NZXT Kraken X60 Cooler Master V850 Phanteks PH-F140XP (x2) - for X60 cooler Samsung 840 Pro 128GB (x2) Seagate 2TB Solid State Hybrid Drive Dual boot I'm looking at a Linux/OS X or Windows/OS X combo, we'll see. I'm a little intimidated with all the cabling and fan connections, I'll just have to take it one step at a time. Any advice, pointers, feedback, or smack for this first time builder? Thanks for this tremendous resource by the way, great site! *Parts arrive Tuesday!
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I have an Acer c720p. I just used crouton to install ubuntu. When it was done installing it asked for a user name. Then it asked for a password. When i tried to enter the password it would not type anything into the field. So i tried three times and finally it said attempts unsuccessful or something along those lines. So it booted up. But now every time i want to do something like install wine it asks for a password that i do not have. i dont know what to doing being that this is my first experience with the linux world. I need help. If there is some type of process i need to follow like uninstalling ubuntu or booting into recovery i need it spelled out because i have no idea where i would even begin. Thanks in advance.
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Hey there... I am wondering if it is possible to split C: drive into 2-3 separate partitions without ballsing something up and deleting Windows with all my files (By some magical formatting probably...). It is in a single 284 GB partition at the moment. I am currently running Windows 7 Home Premium on my old laptop here, an HP G61-631NR Notebook. It's getting close to 4-5 years old now. A little off topic there but back to it, the reason why I would like to do such a thing is something deadly, dangerous, and something I shouldn't do but will anyway and cause a malfunction in the Universe creating a worm whole that destroys the Earth... Nah, only joking. I just want to dual boot Windows 7 with Linux, Elementary OS Luna to be exact. Now my research tells me I could possible do this, either through the boot installation of Elementary OS or inside Windows via Disk Manager. But, it also told me that whatever they are attempting to explain is not catching on in my brain. Now you'd probably saying something of the line, "Why don't you just go buy an external hard drive?" Trust me, I do want to. But currently I'm strapped for cash. Nobody tell Linus I haven't ever backup this machine before. Like, never. Yes, I was naive then. Off topic again... curses me... This is what I am looking at; what I want to do: Out of 205 GB free HDD space out of 284 GB total: (I think the drive itself is either 300 or 320 GB total) Partition 1 contains Windows files, etc./personal files. This currently takes about about 79 GB of space. (Was over a 100 GB yesterday, but I decrapified it. ) I would assume to allow it 100 GB max or so. Partition 2 contains the Elementary OS files. The other 50-60 GB or 100. Partition 3 (not necessary but welcome if possible) extra space for personal files from either Windows or Elementary the rest if unused. My hope is that through Elementary OS I can still access my files from Windows as well. I must applaud you for making it this far in my rambling and redundant block of writing. Thank you in advance for your help, Malkavain3
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I have an SSD and an HDD. When I bought the PC it originally came with one 2TB HDD and the previous owner didn't erase his boot partition. I had an SSD in my laptop at the time which I removed, sold the laptop and installed the SSD into the PC. I formatted and installed win7. All is fine. Except that it loads the BIOS two times, in the first attempt it says no Hard Disk Found then loads into another bios and loads windows which is set up to dual boot to the two windows boot partitions. I never bothered to get rid of it because he said he wanted the personal files but it's been almost a year now and every time i've offered to sort it out he's cancelled. Which brings us to today. I've had enough and I want to try out ubuntu again, I used to use it on the aforementioned laptop and thought i'd get back into Linux, learn some programming inside linux because i'd be less likely to distract myself with games. I go to install 13.04 but because that 2TB drive has all my personal media on it I didn't want to re-partition the whole drive to set up the ubuntu boot partition which is what it was asking me to do. I went to the advanced partition panel to reformat the HDD windows boot (sda1 ~160GB) to ext4. However apparently i needed to set up 3 partitions to use ubuntu /boot, /home and /? (can't remember the name now could someone correct me, also is that whole statement wrong? Is there any easier way of doing this?). Because I couldn't partition the HDD without formatting the whole drive I opted out and tried to boot into windows. I can't I keep getting BOOTMGR not found or something to that effect. I've created a bootable windows 7 usb to try start-up repair to automatically create the bootloader but the operating system is not listed. I tried load drivers and it allows me to navigate through the SSD so it must be able to mount it if i'm able to navigate? Does anyone know where the location of the drivers are? Or another method for reconstructing the bootloader? Can anyone help me to install ubuntu and then put windows 7 into the GRUB menu? So I could boot that way?