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Deleted EFI partition on secondary hard drive, now computer will not boot
Several years back I upgraded my main hard drive. I can't remember the specifics, but I believe I cloned the entire drive onto the new drive, and then just selected the new drive to boot from. I kept ...
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Debian /boot partition is full, causing update‐initramfs to fail — how to safely restore initrd.img to regain use of plymouth themes?
When I was using the Debian system (version: Debian 13), I encountered the following error while trying to restore plymouth-themes:
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.12.48+deb13-amd64
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Is the Windows 10 boot loader in system reserved partition the same as the one in the EFI partition?
If Windows 10 is installed on an MBR HDD, the installer creates a system reserved partition to store the boot loader. If Windows 10 is installed on a GPT HDD, the installer creates an EFI partition to ...
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In Linux (terminal only) can I temporarily force a Windows EFI to be unbootable then restore as needed?
I have a Windows Server. I do backups by booting to Linux and doing a dd exact sector copy from my boot disk to another disk*. The problem is that my Server's BIOS is too smart, no matter what I do ...
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Can I use a bootable drive partition to install OS on another partition on the same SSD?
I realize this is a little out of the box question so I wanted to reach out to the experts on the matter.
I have a 256GB SSD. I have 2 partitions on it. Partition 1 is 20GB, another one is the rest of ...
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How to get system info from a Windows system partition without booting it?
I have some disk/disk-images of previous Windows installations from different machines (some of them from machines I don't own any longer).
I'm trying to find out which machine these used to be in.
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Cloning SSD to USB but Windows fails to boot
After I cloned my SSD (size:120GB) to an USB (128GB) with EaseUS Partition Master and tried to boot my Motile M142 laptop from the USB, it gave me the same error message of "0xc000000e" I ...
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BeeLink NUC UEFI Shell Command to Format Partition
I have a Beelink NUC that powers on to a "UEFI Interactive Shell v2.2" and Shell>.
I have a installation media USB for Win10, but when I view the current partitions it says unable to ...
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u-boot partition environement variable is always writable regardless of force_ro value
On my platform, the u-boot environment variables can always be modified. Currently, I'm changing the value of force_ro to '1', which sets the permission mode to read-only. This change is reflected in ...
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Windows updates breaking partition table
I have been using a dual boot setup for a while (Arch Linux + Windows 11). I recently had an issue with a Windows update, and a BOPS update at the same time.
This erased the partition table, thus ...
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How to recover information from hard drive with partitions Windows 10 and linux [duplicate]
I have a hard drive from a desktop PC, which had debian and windows 10 installed. In windows 10 I had disabled automatic updates and the firewall and one day a blue screen appeared, I saw on the ...
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running grub-install during arch installation gives the error "no space left on device". How can I solve this?
I'm dual booting windows 11 and arch linux (i'm installing arch right now).
I have created a single partition for /mnt (i created a swapfile in the same partition instead of creating a separate ...
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Create two partitions that share the total disk space
I like having two partitions C: (the boot partition) and D: on my main drive for organizational purposes: all windows data and programs are in C: and my projects and data are in D:. However I don't ...
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Why the location for Partition entry in MBR doesn't contain partition entry?
I'm learning file system recently. wikipedia says the partition table is located at 0x01BE, but when I check my USB drive(NTFS) by a binary tool, there are some words there "Press Ctrl + Alt + ...
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Why does Windows always reports slightly wrong sizes when formatting a disk?
I've installed Windows probably thousands of times since Windows 3.1. I forget the situation in Win 3.1, but from Windows 95 onwards, Windows has never respected partition size reality, and as it's ...