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Shame on me, I didn’t know about the apparently common bug that does this when installing windows with multiple drives installed. My main system partition is on my primary SSD where I want it to be. My EFI boot partition is on my secondary SSD My recovery partition is on my 7 old HDD that’s probably a year or two out from failure. Ideally I would like all of these partitions on the previously mentioned primary SSD. Is there any easy way to move those partitions or create new ones for my main SSD? I really would prefer to not have to reinstall windows. I am using Windows 11, and otherwise my system is behaving completely normally. I just would really like this fixed.
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Hello, I have a PC with an ASUS P7P55D-E board and want to install windows on an NVMe drive using that PC and boot from it, on that PC. I installed the latest version of the clover bootloader on 2 USB drives, because with NVMe drivers, it can use NVMe drives normally, but every time I try to boot from one of those USB drives, I only get a black screen with a blinking cursor. I also tried booting my Windows 10 installation media, which gave me the same blinking cursor for a few minutes and then it eventually booted. I have been trying to boot clover for 20 minutes straight but still nothing happened. I made 2 drives to see if the drive was the problem, but that doesn't seem to make a diffrence. I read online this could be because of conflicting boot drives, but when I remove it, I get an error message saying it can't find any boot devices, so there shouldn't be any conflicts. I also tried booting clover with an other boot drive installed, to see if clover needs one to actually boot, since it's a bootloader, but that didn't change anything, same result. Can you help me? I don't know what the problem could be. Btw this is an ASUS P7P55D-E board and I'm trying to use Windows on an NVMe drive, that's why need clover for the NVMe drivers. Later : I tried making a GPT instead of MBR partition with rufus and this time it actually gave me an error screen. I then tried finding anything like "BIOS Legacy mode" in the Firmware settings, but without success. I then checked rufus but it only lets me select UEFI, not BIOS. I don't know what to do now, can you help me?
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So i want to take a backup system image of my c drive. But windows isn't letting me select only the c drive. Its adding my secondary hdd also to the backup image.(files on hdd come to 456 gb) (files on the c drive on ssd is just about 94 gb). My laptop is the Hp EC -1024 ax ( Ryzen 5 4600 H and nvidia geforce 1650). It only had a hard drive with windows on it. So since it was upgradable to ssd, i installed a (M.2 256 gb WD) and formatted my hdd and reinstalled windows on the ssd. Now the thing is the EFI and Recovery drives along with the boot drive is on my HDD. Will shifting these to the SSD help windows to take an image only of the c drive? if yes which software should i use?(preferably freeware) or can i use cmd? here are screenshots attached of my disk drives and the back up utility...
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i tried to dual boot my pc with steamOS and my storage drive got converted to efi system partition type is there any way to recover data -
Hey guys. So I decided to install Mac OS X catalina on my PC but after installing I learnt that the RTX 2060 is not supported so I deleted the partition in which Mac os x was installed (my entire hard drive). Then in order to remove the EFI partition, I booted up linux and deleted it using GParted. After doing so, I can by default boot into Windows 10, but can't boot into bios. It always shows a black screen everytime I try to do so. I tried resetting CMOS twice, with no luck. Please help me, I need to change a few settings in my BIOS asap. Thanks in advance. My RIG: Mobo: Asus TUF-B450 Gaming Plus Graphics: Zotac RTX 2060 Pro: Ryzen 5 3600 PSU: 550W 120GB SSD (windows) 1TB HDD (used for Hackintosh and deleted it later) -
I'm putting my new system together and when I plugged in my USB drive to boot windows 10 it kept putting me in an efi boot shell, how do I get windows 10, Mobo: MSI 970 Gaming CPU:FX-6300 GPU: MSI RX 480 PSU: Thermaltake 650w RAM: 8gb G.Skill RipJaws DDR3
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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 been trying to install freebsd and ubuntu as efi entries on my new dell G5 and a have no luck what so ever. I can efi-boot either of oses when they are only os on the system but when i install other one neither will boot. i have tried ~ everything i could find on web. Please, if anyone have any ideas or solutions i would greatly appreciate. -
I have been trying to solve an issue since I installed an SSD on my computer and installed windows in it. After I installed Windows 10 on my new SSD I took what was worth keeping from my old HDD (Photos, videos, art, game saves, etc). I formatted the old drive and called it Babushka because it's slower and so I can tell it's the HDD, problem being, when I installed Win 10 on my SSD I left the HDD plugged into it and the EFI that from what I learned is the partition that contain files that allow the computer to boot is still in the HDD and it gives me a screen as if it couldn't recover windows on the HDD, that doesn't stop me from using the computer, it still lets me boot into the Windows on the SSD, but it massively slows down my startup speeds and that's quite annoying to me having to go through that error screen. I created boot files into a new partition as on the image below ("E:" is my boot files partition and "C:" is my windows install on my SSD) I set my SSD to top priority on boot, I just don't have any pictures of it. Still, this happens: I can still press f9 and select the one on my SSD just fine, just that having to pass through this screen slows down my startup. So, how do I stop the computer from trying to boot through the HDD?
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I've had this MSI A68HM-P33 V2 for roughly 1 year and 3 months now, came with a AMD Athlon X4 840 and a 4GB SDRAM Kingmax, I had my gpu for over 2 years now, a Radeon RX460 and an HDD Toshiba DT01ACA050thats older than 6 and had been reinstalled 4 times.Now, to my problem.I have a Teclast 240GB A800 SSD which I don't think is older than 8 months but was bought from a retailer known to sell 2nd hand hardware.I installed my OS there with the thought that it's faster than my old HDD.After I boot my PC I am met with the EFI shell and when I check the board explorer in BIOS the SATA port 1 where I have my SSD is empty.I found out that if I unplug and plug in the PSU cable and restart, then spam the button to enter BIOS the board explorer sees it and recognizes it.After I save and exit by putting it to boot from the SSD the PC resets and puts me in EFI Shell, when I type exit and return to the BIOS the SATA port is empty again.I've tried: Switching cables Switching ports AMD-RAID BIOS launch Rearranging Boot options Disabling and enabling win8/8.1/10 configurations Disabling fast boot Restoring defaults Overclocking Resetting hardware monitor to defaults(for some reason it says my CPU temp is dead frozen at 128C and fan speed at 1850) Disabling, enabling and defaulting power timers I have also ran into different things since it started to occur: BSOD CRITICAL PROCESS DIED BSOD INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE BSOD CRITICAL SERVICE FAILED Boot manager status 0xc00000f I welcome all suggestions and will ask on different sites and forums as well. If you need more information I'll try to provide asap!Thanks in advance!Sorry for the long wall of text,TLDR: MSI BIOS disconnects SSD SATA port on reset
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I am trying to boot from a clover usb containing macos Mojave installation and yes it is configured to my system. The problem is that my BIOS freezes when I navigate to the EFI file in the USB to boot off of and legacy booting gives error selected boot device failed because it is configured to boot only from UEFI. Yes the EFI partition is formatted as Fat32. I am attaching photo of my bios window. BIOS version is A16 (latest) and my laptop is Dell Latitude E5410. The files being misread as UI and/or are 2 folders and a text file. Weird. Thanks and regards.
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Hey guy I deleted linux partition so I got the grub error where I couldn't go to windows, then I deleted the EFI partition but now my PC forgot it has windows. Then I installed ubuntu in hopes to restore EFI which it did but still no windows I don't wanna reinstall windows I have all my dependencies set up. I'm a noob
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I just installed arch on a new drive, all in accordance with the official guide from wiki.archlinux.org. After restarting the computer, the boot menu didn't see the disk. I checked why on the old system and found out that the partition with the efi boot was empty. What should I do to run arch. Thanks in advance. -
harddisk Pxe Rom Exit check cable connection
abhihere121 posted a topic in CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory
Hi so i have changed some setting or trying to mount efi partition thru cmd but after doing all the shit i restarted my laptop and it starting showing pxe rom exit check cable connection what should i doni have tried to remove and reinstall my hdd but nothing worked pls help -
partition recovery HDD data recovery / EFI MBR-Unallocated
DutchGiant posted a topic in Troubleshooting
Dear TechJunks, Is this a lost cause, or is there a bit of light at the end of the tunnel? USB powered HDD showing 2 Unallocated partitions (MBR), and 1 visible (2mb FAT) EFI partition. Cannot get to the data this way. Trying to save the data for the father of a colleague. The problem started when my colleague connected the disk to his MacBook. 2,5" 250GB Seagate Momentus 5400.4, running in a Medion single usb 2.0 powerd casing. (Running the drive internally yields the same result) Testing on a Win10Edu64Bit, Tried Win7 and a other offline Win10 system. Here is a screenshot i took with Minitool (same as in DiskManagement) I have added the errorlog with the bootx64.efi and grubx64.efi left in the FAT partition as a attachment to this post. Is there away to restore the beloved pictures, of this old man? bootx64.efi grubx64.efi Seagate Errors.evtx
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Hi, I previously had Windows 10 dual-boot with Ubuntu and Fedora and I wanted to remove all of them and only have Windows. I deleted the partitions I made for them but forgot to remove GRUB first. So I deleted the boot directories in the EFI with cmd by following this article Uninstall GRUB and use Windows bootloader. But Ubuntu and Fedora still appeared in the boot menu. So I installed fedora again. But now I have two Fedora's and one Ubuntu in the boot menu. If I click on the old installations, my PC doesn't boot and goes back to the boot menu. The previous boot directories were removed and I only have the newly installed Fedora now. So how can I remove the rest ones and only have Windows boot manager and the newly installed Fedora in the boot menu?
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Hello i am trying to install linux mint on dual boot with windows 10 after i choose the OS partion and start installing i get the message error of "no efi system partition was found ..." Note : if i continue without the efi partition it will finish the installation and when i boot the system it gets stright to windows 10 without giving any message to choose the OS if i convert the windows reserved system (not OS) partition to EFI type from NTFS or create a new EFI partition and choose it as the boot loader, windows wont boot and in order to boot linux i'll have to choose an option from the EFI choice in the boot option in the bios the picture attached is not mine i just put it to show you the error message so please do you have any idea how to fix it, Thanks
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OK so i have a HP Proliant DL360e G8 I have installed windows onto a SDD and it is connected using the CD drive sata connection and is listed as disk 5, i also have a HDD in the drive bays which can be listed as disk 1-4. The issue i am having it that the bios seems to not find the boot partition when the HDD and SSD are connected. If i disconnect the HDD then it boots. So i have looked in bios to see if i could select the boot options by disk, but this was not possible makes me wish i had a dell bios now. So my plan is to get a usb and have the boot partition on it and then i can change the boot order to boot from the internal usb first. The issue i have is how do i go about making a boot partition on a USB which will load my os?
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I bought a new laptop with no os on it. I insatlled Windows 10 on it. But every time I start the laptop it boots into EFI Shell, After I write exit into shell It boots the windows. How to directly boot into windows. Laptop has only one HDD. None of the online search helps me. They are giving different answers. Thank You.
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As per disk 1, I have one 3 partition on the drive. One with media and downloads, a random EFI system parition (I tihnk left over from my ubuntu install) and a former 1tb partition for ubunutu) Any ideas on how I can reclaim the space? Attempting to create a new simple volume gives the following error. Any ideas why? I have tried creating an even smaller partion of 250gb but that gives the same error. I backed up everything on D so happy to wipe it if needs be. Please help.
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Didn't seem to get any responses in the storage subforum so hoping for more eyes here. The issue is on Disk 1 there is 3 paritions in Disk Managment. The Data Partition I have been using for a while, a random EFI partition that I think may be left over from a ubuntu install. (HDD was added a while after Windows was installed so don't think linked) Finally as you can see there is a 1tb unallocated partition which formerly belonged to Ubuntu. I would ideally like to expand the Data partition as much as possible, not the end of the world if I can't get rid of the EFI partition. The drive is a seagate barracuda 4tb drive. Attempting to expand the Data Partition gives the following error. Attempting to create a new simple volume gives the following error and create a small 1mb partition. Having a look at the disk in Diskpart shows the following. Any ideas what I can do to get my storage back?
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I would like to try hackintoshing my laptop, however to dualboot windows and OSX, the EFI partition needs to be 200mb, however windows uses a 100mb EFI partition. I have not found a way of extending its size without loosing the current windows install. I have the option of installing OSX on an external ssd I dont use very much, however the end goal will be to make it boot alongside the windows install, so the EFI partition will have to be increased sooner or later...
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My computer has been fucked for 4 days. I have work to do. And I'm done with trying basics. I'll wait for replies, so I'm relying on you. Please help me. 1.I want to install windows 10 on my formatted 256 GB SSD. ;( 2. What is MBR partition table? I only know about NTFS and thats what I put. 3. EFI refers to UEFI? 4. What is a GPT disk? ''windows cannot be installed on this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems can only be installed on GPI disks'' I once again: deleted the partition of the SSD. and I created a full single NTFS partition. Still same problem. Also, wtf is load driver for?
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So I have been living under a rock for the past 4-5 years and just this week decided to upgrade my AMD phenom II black edition x4 965 processor (that I bought back in 2009) to something a bit more modern. Having always been an ASUS fanboy and exclusively used ASUS motherboards, I was naturally drawn to the ASUS Maximus VII Hero as a decent compromise between overkill and high end after I decided that a 4790k was the best choice of processor. The installation of everything went ok, until I got to install windows again. WHAT DID THEY DO?! It has always been so simple to burn an iso to a dvd or bootable flash drive, boot up, and install windows as per the usual. EFI was a nightmare. Thank god Linux doesnt care that I completely changed the heart and brains of the system haha. Anyways I spent 6 hours creating bootable flash drives, messing with BIOS settings, and extracting EFI boot files from the windows install.wim file in the ISO. So it took 2 hours before I even got it to boot into the windows installer on a flash drive, huge sigh of relief, click install now........ NOPE CD/DVD drivers missing and needed to continue. Which I spent the next 4 hours trying to work around, even tried different versions of windows to be sure it wasn't my ISO. Eventually, and I don't even know what finally fixed it, I was able to boot into windows and get it installed. However in my research I came across a LOT of people who had this problem and a huge variety of random/stupid things people did that suddenly made it work. ALL OF THEM were using EFI. There was only a handful of people not using UEFI or EFI that had the problem, but theirs were all caused by a corrupt ISO. Not to mention you have to take extra steps when making a bootable drive for EFI and I tried traditional methods with a MBR and the ASUS bios just wouldn't have it. So, I have clearly been under a rock for too long because I have no idea what EFI is and all I could figure out is its for windows/fastboot/secure boot. So those of you a bit more current on this stuff should fill me in. P.S. I am not some computer illiterate subhuman, I swear this whole system is screwey and I have built many computers/installed windows even more times.
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I recieved my Lenovo Y50 today and changed out the default HDD Hybrid drive with a Samsung 850 EVO 500GB. I decided to change out the OS and put a copy of Windows 7 on a USB and attempted to boot from it. When I turned it on however it keeps trying to boot from EFI Network 0 for IPv4/IPv6. I thought the laptop may just not be able to detect the USB because of missing drivers so I took out the SSD and installed the Windows files straight onto it and then installed back inside the laptop. However, it still tried to boot from the EFI Network. I went into the BIOS and it detects the SSD and notes that the "Preinstalled OS License" is WIN. Can anyone tell me what I need to do? Thanks!
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