Questions tagged [boot-manager]
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Difference between bootmgr.efi and bootmgfw.efi?
I would love to know if is there any difference between the bootmgr.efi and bootmgfw.efi files?
Those files are located in the ESP partition in EFI/Microsoft/Boot.
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The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible 0xc000000e
A family member of mine recently went on vacation and turned off their computer, something they normally do not do, upon returning home it would not turn on and now returns a black screen with the error message in that is shown the code block below.…
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How can I get rid of the "Windows Boot Manager" showing up when I only have one version of Windows?
I installed Windows 7 over a Windows XP installation (formatting my partition in the process). Now, when I boot, I get the "Windows Boot Manager" screen, asking me to choose between "Earlier Version of Windows" and "Windows 7." Choosing "Earlier…
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Is it possible to select which system to boot before rebooting, on a multi-boot UEFI system?
I'm wondering if there's a way to have a computer with UEFI and two different OSes installed (Windows 10 and Linux Mint 17.x in my case) where you don't have to wait for the system to shut down in order to select a different system to boot into.
To…
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"Ghost" blank UEFI entry in Gigabyte BIOS
Background
I was trying to install macOS (Hackintosh) alongside Microsoft Windows 10 on my SSD, so I shrank the Windows partition using Disk Management and left an empty exFAT partition next to C: (called ToBeErased) for macOS to format as APFS with…
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How to change active boot partition of Windows 8.1 UEFI?
I've a 64 bit Windows 8.1 on GPT / UEFI and am trying to boot to another OS without a CD-ROM or external harddisk.
I've created a fresh partition (Z:) and copied Puppy Linux.iso over to it. However, I can't change the active partition to Z:.…
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Chainload Windows boot manager from another?
Is it possible to use the Windows Boot Manager to chainload another Windows Boot Manager?
For example, (how) can I use a boot manager on C:\bootmgr that reads C:\boot\BCD to chainload another boot manager D:\bootmgr that uses D:\boot\BCD?
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Since EasyBCD is no more free as beer, what can I use instead?
Is there an easy-to-use and reliable alternative?
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How to prevent boot manager missing after cloning a win764 image using Ghost 2003?
I am running ghost 2003 command -fdsp, but once we have cloned the image and restored it onto exactly the same make and model machine, we are force to run win7 setup and run a repair which fixes the boot menu, I want to prevent this requirement to…
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Cloned Windows 10 hangs in black screen with cursor
I cloned Windows 10 from a HDD Partiton into an SSD Partition. The SSD has 2 Partitions: one (1st) is Windows 7 (manually installed) and the other is the cloned Windows 10 from previous HDD. I created the entry in Boot Menu, transfered the Boot Menu…
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Boot CD ROM via floppy?
I have an older computer (1994) and it can't boot from CDROM. How can I install some sort of boot manager that lets me boot from any CD?
Mackindale
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How to make the Boot Menu to show Windows 7 and Windows 7 (64 bit)?
After installing Win7 32 bit and Win7 64 bit on 2 different partitions of the same computer, both show up as Windows 7 on the boot menu. So if I have 1 desktop and 1 notebook, I will have to remember which computer's top Windows 7 is the 32 bit and…
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Remove XP from XP/W7 dual boot (move boot manager)
Given this BCDEDIT table:
Windows Boot Manager
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identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=Y:
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit …
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Did I kill windows boot manager? I can't boot after installing FreeBSD
I installed freebsd with dual-booting. I specified an empty partition for freebsd auto-configuring.
After it was installed, windows boot manager disappeared.
What's going on? Should I recover it, or install an alternative boot manager?
by the way,…
user196602
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Recovering multiple partitions with testdisk in a multiboot configuration
I'm facing this kind of problem for the first time.
Two of my three partitons got corrupted. In searching for a solution, I found testdisk. I've read the tutorials and feel confortable to use it, but I'm unsure about recovering partitions in a…
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