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PC won't boot from drive when I select it, but if I select boot from file and specify GRUB it works

fdisk HDD and grub installI have an HP Elite X2 and the OS on the ssd is windows 11. I have a external hdd with Kali Linux installed and it works fine on other laptops. But on this one it won't boot ...
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Switch partition drive on dual boot

I have a dual boot with Ubuntu 22.04 and Windows 11. Each partition is on a specific drive, ubuntu is on a sata 500GB SSD and Windows is on a NVMe 1TB SSD. The windows partition barely use 200GB of ...
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How to identify and delete Linux Bootloader/GRUB from my HDD?

Im using win 10 in my principal HDD. I needed a dual boot with linux mint, which should be in my SSD, so I installed it. The problem is that it installed the BOOTLOADER in the EFI of my HDD and not in ...
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Linux no boot after cloning partitions

I had and old HP Compaq laptop I wanted to upgrade because the IDE HDD was dying inside. Previously I had set up a Windows XP / Lubuntu 14 dual boot on it. After cloning the drive with Rescuezilla to ...
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Python APP OS error: failure reading sector 0x10e6c8 from hd0

This is a Verifone Ruby2 POS. I have an Ubuntu boot flashdrive and another Ruby2 (main register). My question is can I repair/recover the hd0 (which is 2GB solid-state SATA Flash)? Or, copy Python App ...
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Windows 10/11, Manjaro Dual Boot: WIndows lagging, freezing not booting and suddeny windows partitions missing

My PC has quite a view issues, and already a view Problem fixes couldn't resolve the issue. Also symptoms varied a bit over time from OS-lags, to OS-freezes, to getting this crapmachine to boot. So It'...
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Set up a MBR on one drive to boot debian on another drive

I trashed my old version of debian while trying to update it on my main disk (sda). I installed the latest debian version on sdb which runs great. I tried to change the boot order in the BIOS but it ...
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How to properly replace disk RAID1 with uefi boot

im facing situation when i need to replace hdd with uefi boot. Never done before. Standard procedure with legacy boot (MBR) is okay but im not sure how to do that when UEFI is on server. Server have 2 ...
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Poweredge T320 corrupt GRUB

I've installed Debian on a Dell Poweredge T320 to use as a home server. It's been up for over a year now. Last reboot it would not boot as apparently a kernel update apparently breaks grub, and ...
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How to remove GRUB and boot windows 10 directly from C drive?

I have 2 SSDs in my computer, lets call them disk A and disk B. Windows 10 is installed in disk A, and some time ago I installed ubuntu on disk B, along with grub to be able to dual boot. Now I want ...
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Restoring the partition table and a fsarchiver backup from a dead disk to a new one

My openmediavault server's ssd disk died, and I replaced it with a new one (different brand, same capacity). Now I wanted to restore my last backup made with fsarchiver via the omv backup plugin, and ...
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Is my hard drive dead or can i install Windows?

I was on my laptop one day untill it froze and when restarted my laptop booted up and just said: error failure reading sector 0x100800 from 'hd0 error. Then after saying that 5 or 4 times it went to ...
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How can I create an automated grub rescue disk for Gen8 Microservr?

I have a HP Gen8 Microservr since 2016 and after a format I can't boot it normally anymore. Here is the quite complicated setup : SATA port 1 : ssd with debian (from wich I used to boot...), SATA ODD ...
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Why doesn't installing GRUB on MBR destroy the partition table?

I have read that my partition table is stored in the MBR. And write operations are performed sector-wise i.e, even if you want to change just a few bytes of a sector you need to overwrite entire ...
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Can't install grub for Manjaro after reinstalling Windows

I recently reinstalled Windows and Windows being the great operating system it is deletes the bootloader. I thought this would be pretty easy to fix, to I just flashed my thumbdrive with Manjaro and ...
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