boot process

Windows 11 continues to be a continually evolving operating system that offers a range of customization options, allowing users to tweak their computer experience. One of the less commonly known features is Verbose mode, which displays detailed status messages during startup and shutdown. This...

Hello, I have a problem with my PC boot process, I have a dual boot system with Win7 and Linux mint each on it's own HDD. I have just replaced my motherboard which is a used one that came with no driver/ installation disk. Having got it working ok I was setting up the boot sequence using...

I have been searching for a solution to allow boot up only if a third party hardware is connected. For the new tech people. A similar solution was possible during the days of Windows 95 up to Win Me by using Dos. The idea is to disable all the HDD from booting and enabling USB and once the boot...

Hi Yesterday I changed my Display Port Cable to an HDMI cable after finding that I couldn't view video from my motherboard during the boot process or access the Bios. This all started with a power outage that messed up the boot process so that my computer would hang at boot. My computer...

Hi all, I have been trying to remove this hard drive as there are no longer any files on it. But it appears that some part of the boot process happens on this drive? Once I remove the drive windows fails to boot up. How do I move the boot manager off the I drive and on to the c drive? Link...

My Windows 10 PC seems to be working OK but I notice that between the Windows 10 splash screen and the user sign on page there's a period of time when the screen simply goes black. The system does get to the sign on page but black screens freak me out a bit and I was wondering if anyone else...

Task Manager can’t replace dedicated tools such as Process Manager , but the application has seen incremental improvements with each major Windows update. In 8 and 10, it even includes a new tab, called “Startup”, that lets you see which applications are slowing down the boot process. More »...

As title, can someone teach me how Window 8 start from turning on the power button, and what program my pc/laptop execute to start Window 8, where is the location of these program/firmware files ?

The lack of information on the blue skewed perspective windows logo with white circle of moving dots below it window startup screen is really driving me crazy. Sometimes it takes forever and I'd like to know what the hell windows is doing. It doesn't even show progress of "chkdsk /f/r c:" Is it...

Hi, I hope someone can help me. I required a second copy of win7 for testing purposes. I created a bootable virtual hard drive with win7 installed on it. However when I restart my pc, there is no boot manager present. I always have to press F11 to enter into the boot menu and then choose the...

I activate Bitlocker for my Operating system drive on a Windows 8 machine. But when starting the process I only can back up the recovery key. I have no dialog to choose how to unlock the drive. Thus even though Bitlocker is running, the user can logg on to windows by simply entering the...

Describes how to use the clean boot process to troubleshoot a problem in Windows Vista or in Windows 7. Link Removed - Invalid URL

Hello, I was wondering, if you take a bootable ISO file's contents and copy them to the root of an empty partition (assume this is the only partition on the drive), and then reboot the computer and tell it to boot from hard drive, will it be able to boot, or will it need additional...

PC World: Controversy has been raging over Microsoft's Windows 8 Secure Boot plans ever since they were first revealed last fall, and there's still no sign that that will change anytime soon. Link Removed

I attempt to migrate a local Windows 7 fresh installation instance to FreeNAS iscsi target. I use dd to copy the windows 7 disk image and make it available as iscsi target disk. I then use sanboot to start the iscsi target, the windows OS boot till the windows logo screen and finally blue screen...

FYI: This is due to folks asking about changing things in a duel-boot scenario. An OS was installed then, another, hence the dual-boot... we'll call them 1 & 2. NOW, they want OS2 to exist and boot w/out OS1 The following is a way to do it: I had a dual-boot, Windows 7 x86 & x64. x86 was the...

I have an HP dv6-2155dx and purchased a new HD just like what came out actually a Seagate 500GB 7200RPM SATA new HD. I turned it off and put disk 1 in the drive and turned it on. It loads windows and asks for each of the 3 disk but no luck from there. When it restarts it goes to the black...

I have a Desktop Hard Disk, and i want to install a win7 on it from my laptop. I have the DvD and the part where it says which driver you want to install, my Deskop Hard Disk is not there. Is it because I'm using laptop? Is there away to install it from my laptop? and if you are wondering...

I was wondering if there is any way to change the windows 7 start up logo. Right now when i boot up windows 7 it shows the vista like start up is there any way to change it to the new windows 7 startup logo? specs I upgraded to windows 7 ultimate 32 bit Dual boot windows xp home edition...

Lately it's been happening alot, I even reinstalled W7 and all because its just killing me. My laptop will just completly kill with no errors or such and only one trace in the Event Log that hasn't helped at all. Here as a last resort since I need to have it fixed for school soon or I'll be...