Questions tagged [installation]
The process of installing software, hardware, or peripherals on a personal computer.
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How to solve "disk does not contain a Windows XP-compatible partition" during installation?
My system has three SATA hard drives and an IDE hard drive, so it looks like this:
SATA 1 - Ubuntu
SATA 2 - EMPTY
SATA 3 - Code/Documents
IDE - Movies/Music
I want to install XP in SATA 2, so I pop ...
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Change of WSL installation location
I am trying to install the Windows Subsystem for Linux in my PC (Windows 10). I opened a "Command Prompt" window by running it as administrator and ran wsl --install without changing the ...
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Windows 10 Pro 64-bit Blue Screen while trying to install NVidia 555.85 WHQL (even clean install) through GeForce Experience
Here's my setup:
Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme Q9650 @ 3.00GHz:
Intel Mother Board DP45SG
Bios: Intel Corp. SGP4510H.86A.0125.2010.0121.1927, 1/21/2010
I have 8GB DDR3 Ram with 9/9/9/24 stepping
and an ...
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Cannot boot after applying OpenCore Legacy Patcher Monterey for a MacBook5,1 (Late 2008 Aluminum Unibody)
I'm attempting to use OpenCore Legacy Patcher to update an Late-2008 aluminum unibody MacBook (MacBook5,1) to run Monterey (macOS 12).
What I did:
On the target MacBook5,1, I downloaded the OpenCore ...
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Windows 10 USB installation stuck at 'Copying Windows files (0%)'
After formatting the SSD in my laptop, I am trying to install Windows 10 on it using a USB created from the Windows Media Creation Tool (I have tried multiple USBs). When I do this, the process does ...
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Changing Windows' default system directory on installation
Long story short: I'm writing a shim for running custom privileged scripts with Windows' native shell. To test that, I'd like to have a set of custom-forged installations, one of which would involve ...
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Am I able to choose which drive I can reinstall windows on?
I have a m.2 drive from a laptop, this drive is still recognized but is no longer bootable, so I am trying to reinstall windows on it without losing its data. I have put it in a working windows 10 ...
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UltraISO unable to select disk drive when making Windows 7 bootable
I am following a tutorial to make a Windows 7 bootable, but at this particular step, UltraISO does not give me options to select disk drive and write method, as you can see here.
So I am stuck there. ...
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Debian 10 32-bit (or any Linux) install on Dell Venue 11 Pro
I was hoping that I could get some assistance with a little problem I've been having while attempting to install 32-bit Debian 10 on a Dell Venue Pro 11 tablet.
However the only real issue with it was ...
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Brother MFC Network Scanner Driver Installation
I am not sure on which site to ask this question, so I would be glad if you were to point me in the right direction, in case this is the entirely wrong place.
I am trying to install a Brother MFC-...
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Difficulty setting OpenDKIM SYSCONFDIR at compile time
I am trying to install all files related to opendkim under the directory /my/custom/dir/. To do this, I first tried setting the directory at the configure stage:
./configure --prefix=/my/custom/dir/
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Cannot install specific package versions via apt
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I have a program that generates an OS image. This image is later loaded onto a physical system such that when the system boots up, it is ready to go with all the software it needs pre-...
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PostgreSQL 9.2.4 (Windows 7) - Service won't start, “could not load pg_hba.conf”
I am trying to get Postgres 9.2.4 to run as a service on Windows 7. After installing postgres, the service was running fine. However, after setting postgres up as a server for another program, the ...
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Cannot run ng serve command in Windows 10
I am trying to install angular on Windows 10.
1- My node version is
node -v
v10.16.0
and npm version is
npm -v
6.9.0
After running command of angular cli which is :
npm install -g @angular/cli
I am ...
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Always require user prompt: "PowerShellGet requires NuGet-anycpu.exe"
I'm trying to install this module "VPNCredentialsHelper", but I get the following prompt even if I use the "-force" flag:
C:\Windows\system32>powershell -command "Install-...
