Questions tagged [windows-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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Why am I having issues adding a new SSD to a Dell Precision 5820?

I have a Dell Precision 5820, a workstation owned by my employer. Running W11 Pro, containing 2 M.2 NVMe drives, connected at 2 of the front bays. The other 2 front SATA drive bays are empty. I am attempting to add a 2TB 2.5" SSD drive to one of the…
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Windows Boot: Stuck in Boot loader

This question is about a Laptop which has Windows 10 64-Bit and 32-Bit in a dual boot configuration via Windows boot manager. A CPU upgrade (change of the CPU, bought used) was recently performed. I did test if it was working fine and also could see…
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Error when making a portable ssd with multiple versions of windows to go (0xc0000428)

I am trying to setup a portable ssd with 2 TB to boot Multiple Windows To Go Versions (Windows 7, 10, 11). (I am also planning to try to setup booting with linux distros, but that's not relevant here right now) I have tried several things, but had…
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How to recover from deleted Windows 10 boot manager?

I had two separate EFI partitions. I formatted both of them and installed grub on one (to use Linux), meaning I deleted Windows boot manager files. I flashed an installation medium and opened cmd in it. When I type bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path…
Alfie
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PC boots to grub instead of windows boot manager after changing recovery partition

my pc was dual boot with windows 10 and ubuntu but later i uninstalled the ubuntu, I also believe I remove the partition containing the ubuntu boot loader manager Recently, I needed to increase my recovery partition, so the KB5034441 update can be…
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GRUB2: Configure multiple Windows and Linux operating systems on single EFI system

I've installed two instances of Windows 11 and one instance of Ubuntu 23.10 on my laptop with a single SSD. After install my file system looks like this sudo lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL nvme0n1 953.9G …