- Jan 22, 2013
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Hi everybody
I have a Samsung NV355V4C laptop, which came with Windows 7 HP. I had failed to see an option during an install of linux, and formatted the HDD fully - meaning that the recovery partition, as well as the EFI partition are both gone. No big deal I thought - all files are backed up, I installed Ubuntu 13.10, then I downloaded a copy of Windows 7 HP from Microsoft's own website, installed it, and then the problem hit me:
The laptop doesn't boot into either OS! It just "hangs" at the splash screen. The problem has a workaround - upon turning on the laptop, I have about 3 seconds to hit F10 key (which selects bootable device), and select an OS of choice, and then it easily boots into either Ubuntu or Windows. But if I fail to hit the F10, I have to power off the laptop in order for it to do anything. My guess is that the BIOS had "lost" the EFI boot partition, although it can "see" it no problem in the boot selection! It's workable, but a little annoying. Samsung's "solution" is to send it to service (for a fee of course), which I'm not going to do for my workhorse laptop - never mind the money, I prefer to use my own laptop at school (which seems zippier than the i5's we have in the labs), plus I can use school's computer's screen(s) with a HDMI cable, which comes in handy when debugging/programming while looking up reference materials. I even use it at home in the same fashion, only using the desktop to play games, since the power draw difference is incredible and not needed for any of the school work (yet). Does anyone know how to get into the full BIOS of the Samsung's laptops, or any other workaround that can fix it?
PS: I'm really happy with the laptop itself, I can play SC2-HOTS on medium at 1080P, and it handles well even in 4v4 battles. Samsung, however, has been much less than stellar with their support - their techs told me that I cannot use SSD, cannot install a 2nd drive into a ODD-to-HDD caddy, and when I upgraded RAM the day I got the laptop, they told me that the warranty could be void, even though I had to remove a grand total of one single Phillips screw to accomplish that.
I have a Samsung NV355V4C laptop, which came with Windows 7 HP. I had failed to see an option during an install of linux, and formatted the HDD fully - meaning that the recovery partition, as well as the EFI partition are both gone. No big deal I thought - all files are backed up, I installed Ubuntu 13.10, then I downloaded a copy of Windows 7 HP from Microsoft's own website, installed it, and then the problem hit me:
The laptop doesn't boot into either OS! It just "hangs" at the splash screen. The problem has a workaround - upon turning on the laptop, I have about 3 seconds to hit F10 key (which selects bootable device), and select an OS of choice, and then it easily boots into either Ubuntu or Windows. But if I fail to hit the F10, I have to power off the laptop in order for it to do anything. My guess is that the BIOS had "lost" the EFI boot partition, although it can "see" it no problem in the boot selection! It's workable, but a little annoying. Samsung's "solution" is to send it to service (for a fee of course), which I'm not going to do for my workhorse laptop - never mind the money, I prefer to use my own laptop at school (which seems zippier than the i5's we have in the labs), plus I can use school's computer's screen(s) with a HDMI cable, which comes in handy when debugging/programming while looking up reference materials. I even use it at home in the same fashion, only using the desktop to play games, since the power draw difference is incredible and not needed for any of the school work (yet). Does anyone know how to get into the full BIOS of the Samsung's laptops, or any other workaround that can fix it?
PS: I'm really happy with the laptop itself, I can play SC2-HOTS on medium at 1080P, and it handles well even in 4v4 battles. Samsung, however, has been much less than stellar with their support - their techs told me that I cannot use SSD, cannot install a 2nd drive into a ODD-to-HDD caddy, and when I upgraded RAM the day I got the laptop, they told me that the warranty could be void, even though I had to remove a grand total of one single Phillips screw to accomplish that.
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