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Make UEFI, GPT, Bootloader, SSD, USB, Linux and Windows work together

I like to use the latest hardware and the latest software; thus I have a Laptop (Lenovo X220) with UEFI instead of BIOS an SSD instead of an HDD GPT partitioning scheme instead of MBR USB to boot from instead of optical disks. I need to use both…
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what is the difference between the usb booting mechanism and optical disk booting mechanism?

Many distributions of linux/bsd have separate usb and dvd images and writing the dvd image doesn't seem to work. What is fundamentally different between these two mechanisms?
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How can I USB boot a VM in VMWare Workstation 9?

How can I boot a VM off USB in VMWare Workstation 9? I don't see the USB I have attached in the bios boot order. It's clearly attaching before boot, as this shows up before the VM even starts running:
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What is a "UEFI-bootable" USB flash drive and can I boot it on legacy BIOS?

I've learned the difference between UEFI and BIOS, and it seems that BIOS only boots MBR hard drive while UEFI only boots GPT hard drive. And UEFI cannot boot normal USB flash drive so I have to make the USB flash drive "UEFI-bootable". What is the…
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Can't create bootable USB drive: Rufus hangs after writing MBR

I bought a PC without optical drive and there is no option to borrow it for a short time. So I am using Rufus to create a bootable USB stick. I have a 16Gb Toshiba USB drive. Using a Rufus's built-in FreeDOS image I found that "MBR partition scheme…
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Windows XP installation from USB giving "Cannot find EULA" error

I have an old Pavilion zv5200. A few years ago, the hard drive died, and I got rid of it. I also have an external HDD. I want to install Windows XP on it using the original CD for the laptop, and run XP from the HDD until I can get my hands on a…
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Linux USB Key - Only able to boot when formatted to FAT (Gigabyte motherboard)

I am able to a USB bootable memory stick (My motherboard is a Gigabyte EP31-DS3L see Fig 2) using either Universal USB Installer or unetbootin if I have formatted the drive before hand to FAT see Fig 1. Fig1 However if I choose FAT32 I am unable…
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Installing Windows from USB: "Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk"

I used Microsoft's DVD to USB Tool in order to put the Windows 8 installation disc onto an USB stick. It worked on one computer, while on another one it didn't work. When changing the boot order, the computer rather boots normally. When changing it…
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Test usb booting capabilities with qemu under linux

I am running Ubuntu Oneiric and just installed quemu to test if my usb device is bootable, because for some reasons, on my laptop the usb boots but on my desktop pc it shows Boot Erro So, does anybody knows how to test with quemu the booting…
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diskpart multiple primary partition keys

I am trying to set up partitions on my USB drive, 1x as a boot partition, 1x as operating system data, 1x as shared with windows files. I am trying to assign the shared with windows partiton a drive latter using diskpart, however, I can not select…
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Why I can't boot debian 7 from usb stick?

I downloaded a live ISO from the web and saved it as debian7.iso. I then I flashed it onto my USB: dd if=/home/debian7.iso of=/dev/sdb I rebooted my computer, and set it to boot from "removable boot", but I cannot install from the USB stick. Why…
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Windows 8 install from USB freezes

Update 2: I tried running the install from the same flash drive and the same Win8 image on my Inspiron notebook and it progresses further (I saw up to the license key screen) and much, much faster. So this leaves the problem on my 'main' computer…
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How do I boot from USB stick with a new Lenovo laptop and preinstalled Windows 11?

I just bought a Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 Pro14IHU5 O with preinstalled Windows 11 Home. I want to boot a different operating system from a USB drive but it just does not work. When I go to the boot menu (with F12 on startup), the USB stick is not…
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Blank screen on USB boot

I have an HP Elitedesk 800 G1 SF (Product No. C8N26AV) that I recently purchased from the local surplus shop that I would like to set up as a Linux machine. The hard drive was removed and I've put in a new SSD (easier to find these days than HDD).…
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Is it possible the boot firmware only runs UEFI on USB but not on hard drives?

I am using a custom (i686) PC for a product development. I have created an EFI image that would boot a kernel using grub2. If I dd the image to a USB drive, plug the drive and then start the machine, the firmware is able to boot. If I take the same…
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