boot issues

the bios screen is not loaded while start up / Resting the PC unresponsive screen when loading windows from external device if you are using a monitor with high specs the bios screen doesnt match the resolution and fail to display solution : lower the resolution of the monitor or use a...

Hello! I'm trying to clone my 512GB SSD to my much larger 4TB USB hard drive, without disrupting the other partitions. I've tried cloning 3 different ways: GParted, Macrium reflect cloning, and Macrium Reflect image and then restored to the drive. In each case I cannot boot. Though the clone is...

I have a laptop with one main partition with Windows 10 and a second partition that I want to install Windows Vista on for testing purposes. I'd prefer 64-bit but 32-bit is fine if necessary. When I try to install Vista with an x64 SP2 disc, I get an error saying I cannot install due to the...

I have installed windows 10 on three different drives and windows 11 on one drive. To install windows on each I had to remove the other drives from the PC. However this has created a bootloader on each drive and my system is now totally confused. I select the drive on sata port one as the main...

Hi All, Have a problem upgrading to 10. I booted from my original win 7 x64 home edition, clean installed, deleted all files. It may be worth noting when I was prompted what disk to put OS on, i deleted 2 100mb partions as I figured they weren't needed, and loaded the OS onto my main 1000gig...

I've been using Windows server 2012R2 Standard for almost a decade now. I have apps running on the server which have created about 50,000 local users. These are local users created using WMIC scripts and eq. API's. The purpose is to allow for easy integration with IIS authentication. The app...

I'm running Windows 11 22h2 on a Dell XPS 8950 desktop. My power settings specify Never sleep and never turn off screen. I run a screen saver app. I shut down my computer every night and power up (so boot) the next day. Many days I'm at my computer most of the day, or at least on-and-off. Some...

I have been trying for several days to get a just-installed W10 22H2 system to act right. The OS will only boot from BIOS "UEFI <disk> windows boot mgr". I have gone through 6 or 7 YT vids on trying to fix one thing or another. So I re-installed 22H2. For some reason, there's no reserved...

I've had this issue before. I have a clean install of WIndows 2019 Server on a HP Proliant Gen8 Microserver. I installed it with just a SSD. I then powered it off and added a HDD which is GPT and NTFS formatted with data on it. But it won't boot afterwards and gives error: "Non-system disk or...

I want to setup Windows 8, The installer disk is downloaded, the emulator is configured correctly, but the system does not boot, and hangs on the loading screen. I have already tried to configure the emulator in any way, but occurs error 0x000000A. Who knows what's the problem? UPD1...

Hi Guys: My windows 11 PC kept putting downloads under the wrong user. In my effort to stop this from happening I removed the system permission to use that folder. Now my computer will not boot far enough for me to correct my error. What can I do? I also have a laptop running widows 11. Is...

I've made a mistake on a cpu that has both windows 10 and 7 in different partitions. I was moving files between partitions and ended up moving windows operation system's files. Now I can't startup neither with windows 10 or 7 Is there a way to chose with windows to startup by using the dos system?

I have an iSCSI drive mounted on D: for steam library from my TrueNAS server. Every time I reboot my computer this drive pops up in file explorer. How can I disable this? I have checked the following settings: Apps/startup - nothing here about file explorer. Task manager/startup apps - nothing...

Hello everyone, I'm not that knowledgeable on this so please bare with the details. I just brought a nvme to install on my motherboard. After taking out my original memory which was a 250gb nvme with windows installed on it. I cloned windows from the 250gb to a 2tb HDD drive. Im trying to...

I know that as long as the system partition and boot partition are on the same drive, I can use a clone-tool to migrate Windows 11 to another hard drive with simple clicks. As I had some problems with Windows 11 (c-disk), I installed another version of Windows 11 on another drive (d-disk). It...

I have an ACER laptop that has died on me. The 2M SSD is blank. This happened as I was updating the machine with MS Updates. It never ran again after 6 hours of the little marbles going round and round. This is a UEFI booter. Can anybody here reload the OS for me. Acer only shows W-11. I could...

Hello Booted into windows 10 normally and received the attached desktop and cannot find a way to get the desktop back to normal. Thanks if you can help.

A few days ago, my computer started to freeze during regular use. The screen, mouse, and keyboard freeze, and the red led (in my case) that blinks rapidly when there is disk activity stays lit continuously. The only way to stop this behavior is to shut down the computer by using the power...

The system backup was created on a physical server 2016 Standard, version 1607. The restore is being done on a hyper v vm windows server 2016 standard, version 1607. The restore completed successfully but when i restart the vm it is not booting.

Windows 2019 Server setup keeps creating the System Reserved on one of the 5Tb HDDs instead of the SSD. I tried following this YouTube video but it Windows doesn't boot after I complete command: reagentc /info after 8 mins 57s Is this video applicable to Windows 2019 Server. The issue I...