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I have had Windows 10 basically since day 0. My hard drive as crashed and have had to replace it. Unfortunately since the original win10 update I have lost, due to moving, the Windows 8 disk with the activation code. I have tried to reinstall Win10 from Microsoft's MediaCreation site with no...

I'm a former Systems Admin. so I should be able to figure this out, but nope... so I'm asking: I bought a small, external 2.5 Toshiba HDD to use as additional storage. I put it in a case and plugged it in. No dice, I can't see it in Windows Explorer. I checked Device Manager, and it shows up as...

I have a linux share on a freshly installed newest version fedora 27 box. And I dnf'ed the latest standard samba. Windows 10 (pro) can't connect to it. I've tried for literally 20 hours accumulated over the past 10 days. Windows is to blame. How do I know? Because another linux server can...

Hello there, I'm using a Windows 10 laptop (Asus R510V) that I bought about 2 or 3 months ago. Everything was working fine, but a couple of weeks ago, Windows started to get unresponsive randomly when using a new bluetooth speaker I got for Christmas. Every time it happens, the programs start...

Original release date: January 04, 2018 Systems Affected CPU hardware implementations Overview On January 3, 2018, the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) became aware of a set of security vulnerabilities—known as Meltdown and Spectre— that affect modern...

I'm on a Windows 10 high end laptop. I have the C drive and also D, E and G drives. G drive is a USB 2TB Seagate. Is it possible for me to install a Linux distribution on the G drive (or the D drive) and run this instead of the Windows 10 installation?

Hi! I tried installing Debian 9 on my Windows 7 laptop this morning and have managed to break my Windows. I'd like to have it set up so I can choose which OS to boot from at start up. I used the Debian GNU installer to partition my hard drive and install. I am able to start Debian from GNU GRUB...

Nvidia is to end support for the 32bit platform: Ref: End of NVIDIA Driver Support for 32-bit Operating Systems | NVIDIA

Hello everyone. So couple of days ago I was given college project that needs to be done in Linux OS. I googled it a bit and decided to do dual boot on my Windows 10. I found some youtube tutorial and did everything (?) correctly. However, after restarting my PC, no Windows option is shown. Only...

I wanted to check on which of these partition Ubuntu is installed as I want to delete them from the disk management menu.(disk management pic is attached with this post)

Tried installing Lubuntu on my D: drive which contains only files, no OS! But when i selected this drive in the boot options got message "Bootmgr is missing". Lubuntu gives the option to select which partition should contain the "Bootmgr", and i selected the same partition for the OS to be...

Hi, Have an Asus P8Z77-V PRO/THUNDERBOLT. I created another ntfs partition on my ssd C: drive. It is is to install Linux Lubuntu. My idea for a 2nd OS is purely for rescue purposes so i can access internet from lubuntu and try to fix windows or reinstall it without having a dedicated usb with...

I have a laptop that originally had windows 8.1. I installed Kubuntu since I am a Unix and Linux user, But I discovered I also need Windows. My optical drive doesn't work and bios doesn't givr the option to boot from a usb optical drive. I tried it any any way but it didnl work. Booting...

I bought a computer couple years ago, and completely wiped it, i installed linux to try it and test it i bought the computer off amazon, as far as i remember, it came with windows 7 professional, it has one of the Microsoft stickers on it with the product key still on it, it also came with a...

Today, we are happy to announce a new preview release of ChakraCore, based on Node.js 8, available for you to try on Windows, macOS, and Linux. We started our Node-ChakraCore journey with a focus on Link Removed to a new platform, Windows 10 IoT Core. From the beginning, it’s been clear that in...

Hello everyone, I'm trying to install the latest version of Zorin on a Toshiba Tecra A9 s9015x laptop it currently has windows vista. I'm getting this error EDD: Error 2000 reading sector 750555 No default or UI configuration directive found. I've attempted this twice with to diffrerent DVD...

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad Machine. It was originally shipped with Windows 7. Windows 7 was becoming laggy for me so I switched to Linux Ubuntu 16.10. Ubuntu was way faster and smoother than Windows 7, but the problem is that it doesn't have all the apps which I need to use to get my work done. So...

Hi, i have dual booted my laptop with Windows 10 and linux. After that, my Windows time is always off and i am unable to sync with time.windows in the internet time settings. It shows period timeout at first but now it shows that the peer is unreachable. Can anyone help me?

Ever since my laptop updated to Windows 10, it's had lots of network problems. A couple of weeks ago it just stopped connecting to the internet completely. It appears the network drivers no longer work. Apparently my brother had tried to "fix the internet by messing with the command thing", and...

Hey, all. I need some help. I just got a new hard drive for my laptop to replace an old one that went bad. Unfortunately, Windows will not install to the laptop (or work, on the one occasion I've succeeded). Every time I've tried to install Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit), it tells me that it...