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I'm trying to install win10 to a new SSD on an intel NUC5i5RYK. I created a GPT partition table containing two equal size partitions using GPARTED (Knoppix). Then I booted to a win10 install DVD (usb device) using the default bios settings. Windows setup shows the two primary partitions...

I have dual boot Windows 10 and Linux Mint 18 in UEFI mode. I don't want to use GRUB (but I don't want to delete grub). I want to use Windows boot manager. I set Windows boot manager as first boot device in BIOS and I want to add new entry to windows 10 boot loader to boot into Linux. EasyBCD...

This Dell XPS 8700 started out at Windows 8.1. Before I even started using it, I used Paragon's Migrate OS to SSD 4.0 to move the C: partition to an SSD and be able to boot to it. Prior to doing that I shrunk down the original C: to basically match the SSD size and created another data partition...

Okay so today I was having some major issues with windows 10, apps were taking forever to load and i did a defrag and after some more issues i decided to reinstall windows. But for some reason i keep on getting a error 0xC004C003. So windows 10 as of now is unactivated, I had a valid key and I...

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Apologies if I am duplicating an issue here. Just recently I bought a new copy of Windows 10 64 bit and a Toshiba Q300 480g SSD. I removed the old HDD (which was still running XP), connected the SSD and tried to install Windows 10. No luck at all - it did not identify the SSD drive and...

My surface is showing the error code "0xc000000d" whenever it boots up and I can't get it to boot to my usb windows 10 boot installation - i've tried the hold down the volume down button and press power button and release when surface logo disappears. I can get to the UEFI panel but there is no...

hi currently windows 10 is installed with UEFI mode in my ASUS notebook. the harddisk is in GPT partitioning style. so when i turn on my notebook, i am getting ASUS logo while booting up instead of the blue coloured windows logo. i want to make a clean installation of windows to bring back the...

The Nvidia video driver on my daughter's computer is continually getting corrupted in W8.1. Have re-installed it twice, but each time it only lasted a week. Now there is no screen at all. The supposed failover that Microsoft has developed to access UEFI [now that key strokes at boot are...

Hi, after I bought the Lenovo Ideapad 500S with Windows 10 pre-installed, a Linux OS was installed. Now, I want to change it again to Windows 10. I made a bootable USB (with Linux), changed the settings in BIOS to EUFI and tried to boot. He's giving me 2 options; HDD and the USB after...

Hi, my first post. Plus first time I have had a new win10 system fail with probably a hdd failure, so lots of learning new stuff etc regarding the manipulating EUFI options, GPT options etc. Anyway to cut to the quick, I have an old version of Hirens on flash drive, and the latest version on a...

Hello, I've got a problem installing Win7 Professional x64 on my GPT partition and using UEFI to boot on HP Probook 650 G1. I've got a DVD from HP with Win7 OEM version. 1. Made an ISO image from Win7 DVD I was sent from HP. 2. Using Rufus & my ISO image I created UEFI bootable USB. 3. UEFI...

I had some problems from one of my programs and decided to reload the image I had saved two weeks ago. When I tried to load the image (I have windows 10) I was told that the image was stored in bios (I assume legacy) and my computer is UEIF bios and it will not load the image. What am I suppose...

Hi guys, I have a laptop given by my employer. It has WIndows 8.1 and UEFI. I disabled UEFI and I installed Linux. With UEFI disabled I can boot Linux but I don't have an entry in the boot menu for Windows. If I try to enable UEFI then the message from BIOS is that there is no operating system...

I have a SSD with Windows 10 installed. I need of Hibernation function very much; And all time which I do Hibernation, and the PC turn off, to back for work, crashes. The session is lost. I use UEFI of Asus. Just complementing The problem that I previously said, I have installed Windows 10 on...

I have an Asus k551ln... I boot from usb flash to install windows 8.1, there is an error says the system can't be installed because *something* GPT partition i don't remember... i restarted the computer and went to the bios settings, changed the booting priority then saved and restart..... it...

So I've been looking everywhere for this and in the end I still can't find rock-solid info. So I've just installed Windows 10 Pro in UEFI mode with Secure Boot enable and now I've got 4 partitions: Normally, I would just "ghost" my C partition and be done with it with Legacy boot but now with...

I successfully upgraded Win 8.1 to Windows 10 via Windows Update. I also created an install DVD using the Media Creation Tool. Sometime soon I would like to do a clean install using this DVD, so I can get rid of a lot of junk on my PC and start out new. I assumed I would just put the DVD in my...

This all started several months ago. My laptop was stuck in processing updates for hours, even when I had got off work. I turned it off by holding down the power button, the I turned it back on. After booting up, it continued to process updates. I turned off again the same way I did the first...

Hello everyone, I just got a new 3TB hard disk and I can't install Windows 7 64 bit on it. I have added the disk to another computer and I converted it to GPT (GUID). Now it has two partitions: 400 GB and 2,400 GB. (when I try to install Windows it also says it has a 128MB partition of type MSR...