Secure boot and Hp Envy m6-1225dx

New laptop with secure boot and windows factory oem. Have been trying to dual boot windows 8 with either ubuntu 13.04 or fedora 18...this is what I have learned thus far. I can disable secure boot in order to install either ubuntu or fedora, however upon reboot, system goes straight to windows 8. Rebooted system and went int bios again, a...

Dual boot or Virtualbox

I have just purchased a Asus R500 laptop. Can with windows 8 pro 64 bit pre installed. I would like to do one of two things. 1. Set the laptop up as dual boot with Fedora 18 or 19 (when it comes out) as the main OS and have Windows 8 as the second boot. (i have some software that is only available in Windows format.) 2 Convert, if that is...

hvilke windows 7 anbefaler du?

Hei jeg skal kjøpe meg windows 7 må ha 64 bit å norsk! har vurdert en av disse 3: http://www.komplett.no/k/ki.aspx?sku=630 907 http://www.komplett.no/k/ki.aspx?sku=630 913 http://www.komplett.no/k/ki.aspx?sku=631 765 hvilken av dem anbefaler du?? håper på positift svar...

win 7 boot manager problems

I have 4 drives total in my system 2 spinners that previusly were boot drives and two ssds. 1 ssd has been myboot drive for months and the whole system was working fine. recently had some issues going on that prompted me to reload windows today. As I always do I disconnected all drives that I wasn't loading windows onto (left the same ssd...

Boot Menu/ App Menu

Hi I need assistance, I turned on my computer this morning (its a samsung chronos 8 laptop) and the screen was all black and it had an option of boot menu and i am using windows 8. 1. Windows Boot Manager 2.Windows Boot Manager (again I don't know why) 3. SATA CD : : TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-U633J and App Menu It will not boot up when i try to...

Stuck in BOOT MENU

Hi I need assistance, I turned on my computer this morning (its a samsung chronos 8 laptop) and the screen was all black and it had an option of boot menu and i am using windows 8. 1. Windows Boot Manager 2.Windows Boot Manager (again I don't know why) 3. SATA CD : : TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-U633J and App Menu It will not boot up when i try to...

Samsung Chronos 7

Hi I need assistance, I turned on my computer this morning (its a samsung chronos 8 laptop) and the screen was all black and it had an option of boot menu and i am using windows 8. 1. Windows Boot Manager 2.Windows Boot Manager (again I don't know why) 3. SATA CD : : TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-U633J and App Menu It will not boot up when i try to...

Whiting: Top tips for picking best summer camp

There are few things better than summer camp to create strong friendships and open new doors. But choosing the right camp for your child is key. I have a friend who still goes to camp reunions every summer, sent his kids to the same Wisconsin camp,...

disabling secure boot in BIOS for Windows 8 - is it OK?

I have preinstalled Windows 8 on laptop (Toshiba P870) with secure boot enabled. Will it still boot if I disable secure boot in BIOS? I have 2 HDD - Windows 8 installed on first drive. When I install linux on second drive - I have authentication error booting it. Wil Windows 8 boot OK if I disable secure boot in BIOS?...

Digital Influencer Boot Camp - Face-to-Face | Diamond Suites | June 6, 2013 | 8AM - 5PM

Digital Influencer Boot Camp June 6, 2013 8AM - 5PM Diamond Suites & Residences, 8 Apitong corner Escario Street, Cebu City After the success of the Digital Influencers Summit, E-commerce Bootcamp Face to Face Session, and E-Commerce Summit in Cebu, we are happy to announce the first Digital Influencer Boot Camp - Face-to-Face in the Quee...

Can I boot another OS if i have an installation going?

Hi again... im just curious if you can BOOT another OS if you have another incomplete installation going.. I have an CLEAN install of windows 7 and its turn outs to have BOOT LOOPS.. im asking if I can boot another OS say for example. windows XP ? thanks for the replies...

Uninstalling windows 7 via bootcamp....

HI, I have just got a MacBook Pro retina 13 inch with 768 ssd, I wanted to dual boot into windows seven so I installed it via boot camp. I wasn't too fond off the experience it wasn't great particularly with very slow boot times and tiny font... So I uninstalled via bootcamp. So I thought my ssd would go back to 768gb, I' ve added about 2...

Forgot Windows password running on Parallels

Windows 7 running on Parallels 8 did an update. When it restarted it asked for a password that I can't remember! Tried everything to no avail. I've downloaded and burned to a disk various programs to reset password, but I have not been able to figure out how to use them on a Mac. It's asking that I boot from the disk. Would appreciate any...

Loss of Dual Boot Menu After Win8 Installed

My friend, who had a dual-boot system with Windows 7 and one other OS (either a Linux distro or XP) told me that after he installed Windows 8 on a second hard drive, the menu giving him a choice of which operating system to boot went away. Now the system boots to Windows 8. He has found a way to boot to Windows 7 but it's inconvenient. I...

Claire D.'s Review of The Boot Camp Guy - Chicago (5/5) on Yelp

I started going here after a tip from my friend. I love the workouts! Cardio Kickboxing is no joke and will leave you drenched in sweat. I prefer the boot camp classes because they target your whole…...

Windows 7/iMac bootcamp problem

So here's the story. I have an iMac and today, I installed windows 7 through the boot camp option in applications. It has successfully installed but I can't use my mac keyboard etc because the Bluetooth USB host controller is not installed and I can't get on the Internet because it says windows did not detect any networking hardware. Basi...

How do I add a Windows 7 prompt to grub.cfg under Fedora 17/18?

This follows a previous post in which I asked related questions, so bear with me. I have a computer with Windows 7 in /dev/sda1, Fedora 17's /boot in /dev/sda2, and the rest of Linux in other partitions. I obtained this by doing a fresh install of Fedora 17, leaving the Windows material unchanged. But I was not given the option of specify...

Slow bootloader and startup

I have currently installed Windows 7 alongside a pre-installed Windows 8, and I have got pretty much everything working except that, when I select Windows 7 from the boot-loader, the boot is extremely slow, and it takes too long to show the "Microsoft Corporation" text then again slowly followed by the "Starting Windows" text and the Wind...

How do I make a grub CD for booting Fedora 17?

I had Fedora 15 on a computer, dual booted with Windows 7. I did a fresh install of Fedora 17, but in the process I seem to have wiped out its capability to boot Windows 7, which I'm pretty sure is still on the disk. My plan is to install grub on the /boot partition of the new Fedora 17 and then fix the MBR to boot Windows and use Easy BC...

Windows 8 won't boot

hello, I've got a computer with widows 8. later I installed windows vista too. now, I want to remove vista, so I changed the boot drive to windows 8 with easyBCD, but now windows 8 won't boot. I get the following message: Windows Boot Manager A recent hardware or software change might have installed a file that is singed incorrectly or d...

getting fedora 17 boot back after windows 7 install

I have Fedora 17 running on a machine and I have a spare drive which I would like to install Win 7 on. Windows 7 will blow away my Linux boot so I want to be confident I can sort out the dual boot (or as a minimum, get back to Fedora) afterwards. I wanted to setup a boot USB (or CD) with a different grub2 menu and confirm that I could boo...

Downgrading to Windows 7 ISSUE!

Hello. I bought the laptop HP Envy 6 1106TX which came with a Pre-installed Windows 8. So I made a Windows 7 Bootable USB. Turned off Secure boot & Enabled Legacy and set the boot to USB in boot options. The Windows 7 Setup started. PROBLEM:...

Apple BootCamp 5.0 only supports 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and 8

With release of OS X 10.8.3, the latest update for Mountain Lion, Apple upgraded the Boot Camp utility, which allows users to dual-boot Windows and OS X on a supported Mac, to version 5. Boot Camp 5 allows users to install either 64-bit editions of Windows 7 or 8 alongside their copy of OS X - by downloading Boot Camp Support Software 5 ,...

Apple Boot Camp Support 5.0.5033 - Update for Windows drivers. (Updater)

Apple Boot Camp Support contains the Windows Support Software (Windows Drivers) you will need to support Windows 7 on your Mac. For more information on which operating systems are supported on different Mac systems, click here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5634 OS X 10.8.3 or later One of the following: MacBook Air (Mid 2011) or later M...

Windows 7 will not boot from hd, will not boot from dvd after f12

My laptop seems to have a bad HD, windows will not boot, it tries to repair and at some point the drive activity stops. Tried alt f10 - recovery, get the please wait recovery screen, HD activity stops, Tried to boot from the recovery disk, DVD is 1st on boot option, F10 to boot from HD, machine keeps trying to boot from HD. Any clues? I'd...

exchange OS (win7/xp) Bootcamp Parallels

good day everyone, first sorry if i post this on the wrong section. kindly move to appropriate thread if im posting this wrong. BOOTCAMP PARALLELS Question: 1. if i install windows 7 on bootcamp, can i move my application software installation destination to my optibay haddrive? does it affect when i run parallels booting from bootcamp? (...

Formatar windows 8, note gateway 56r08b

não consigo de forma nenhuma dar boot por cd do windows 7, ou usb do windows, ou live cd a única opção q o BIOS permite é o windows manager, que carrega o windows 8 já alterei a prioridade no boot já tentei acessar outro SO pelo menu f12 nada da jeito. estou pensado em dar um format c:/ no prompt do windows e aí sim, dar o boot pelo cd ou...

Brand New Laptop Won't Boot

I've had my Acer Aspire M3-581TG laptop for no more than five days. I was away this weekend so I haven't so much as touched the laptop from thursday until yesterday night. When I went to boot up the laptop yesterday I got a "windows boot manager boot failed" screen (it came with windows 8 already installed - it was cheaper than buying the...

Parallels Desktop 8.0.18354 - Run Windows app without rebooting. (Demo)

Parallels Desktop is simply the world's bestselling, top-rated, and most trusted solution for running Windows applications on your Mac. With Parallels Desktop for Mac, you can seamlessly run both Windows and Mac OS X applications side-by-side without rebooting. Drag-and-drop files between Windows and Mac applications, launch Windows appl...

Dual Boot Issues - Window 7 & Windows 8

I am currently running Windows 7. I downloaded Windows 8 Pro and used the disk management tool to create a partition. Then, I installed Windows 8 there. Everything runs smooth, however Windows 8 just boots automatically every time without giving me an option to choose at boot. When I check MSCONFIG for boot options, it doesn't read Window...

Windows 8 Pro não obedece sequencia de boot

Prezados Srs: Estou com problema que quando eu entro no HD do windows 8 PRO via tecla F8 uso o mesmo e depois de desligar , quando tento entrar no HD principal que esta com boot prioritário na BIOS o mesmo não deixar entrar e ele o windows 8 pro é que entra no lugar. Possuo 4 HDs no meu PC. 1 - HD WD 750GB Windows 7 Ultimate com boot prin...

Windows 7 DVD doesn't boot, neither does USB. :'(

Hello all, My problem is that i'm not able to install windows 7. Been trying to install this since past 1 week. The methods i've tried are: 1. I have a windows 7 bootable DVD which doesnt boot up. (I've set BIOS to boot from DVD ROM first but it just won't boot from the DVD). Tried to install Windows 7 from the same DVD to a friend's PC...

A PC Virus on a Mac

I’ve just downloaded the Parallels 8 software (trying to migrate some Windows software from our family PC to my MacBook Pro). Because I am now running PC applications via Parallels 8, will I need to install and maintain antivirus software as if my MacBook Pro was a PC? Yes, definitely, and it’s included in Parallels. Since Par...

Fast boot bios for windows 8 on new motherboards

Does will be update to ours MB bios for fast boot??:banana: From asus: Fast Boot Instant OS Login ASUS has released new hardware and software designs to shorten system boot-up time to 2-seconds* for a smoother user experience that removes annoying delays under Windows 8, and even previous versions of Windows. Faster system boot and restar...

Solved Windows 7 wont boot

I have a dual boot system Vista Business/Windows 7 pro 64. The other day it froze while booting into win7. This is a laptop, so i had to remove bat. Then tried to reboot. It wont reboot. I can boot into vista just fine. I can access all files in win 7 partition. HD has tested fine. Win tring to boot into win 7, the windows error recovery...

Windows 98 doesn't boot properly

So i'm a 12 year old boy, (don't troll) and my dad brought down an old computer and told me i could fix it up. So far I'm doing very well. I plugged in all the power cords and plugged in my SATA HDD and formated it but now I have a problem. When I boot windows 98 up, it brings me right to a command prompt screen like this: Windows 98 C:...

Run official Kinect SDK on iMac

I would like to create my Kinect development environment and am contemplating using iMac as the box with Windows 7 installed as dual boot and/or parallels. Has anyone tried this configuration earlier and does it work?...

Windows von Boot Camp komplett in Parallels "umziehen" ?

Ich hätte gerne mein Windows 7 aus Boot Camp raus und komplett als VM in Parallels 8 Könnte man, wenn man "Boot Camp importieren" in Parallels 8 ausgeführt hat, das Boot Camp löschen und die VM weiter nutzen ? oder erstellt Parallels eine neue (zusätzliche) VM ? War in der Parallels Anleitung für mich nicht so richtig ersichtlich ...

Boot-Camp Assistent wurde unerwartet beendet

Hallo, bin völlig neu hier und auch frischer Macbook Pro Besitzer. Vorübergehend wollte ich als Umstieg von Windows auf Mac noch einige Programme ans Laufen bekommen, die nur über Windows funktionieren. Nun habe ich Boot-Camp Assistent gestartet, das Handbuch komplett ausgedruckt und mich an die Vorgehensweise gehalten, habe eine Sorftwar...

MacBookAirにParallels Desktop 7 を入れてWindowsを仮想化した

Parallels Desktop 7 Switch to Mac Edition WindowsからMacに乗り換えたい。 でも、MacもWindowsも使いたい。Parallels Desktop 7 Switch to Mac Editionなら可能です。付属のUSBケーブルを使って、驚くほどかんたんな作業 で、WindowsからMacに引っ越しできます。 MacBook Air を購入して、MacもWindowsも使いたいので、Windowsを仮想環境で利用 できるものを今回利用した。それが、Parallels Desktop 7 である。さらに旧PCからMacBookAirに簡単に移行するために、Parall els Desktop 7 Switch to Mac E...