[ubuntu-uk] Dual-booting Ubuntu 13.04 and Windows 8

[Daniel Llewellyn]

There's an option inside windows in the power management to disable the
fast startup option. I forget the actual wording and exactly where to find
it but it's somewhere in the power settings.


On 24 July 2013 16:26, Gordon Burgess-Parker <gbplinux at gmail.com> wrote:

>  I have a Lenovo Ideapad U410 which came with Windows 8 pre-installed.
> I'm running into a problem preparing for dual boot with 13.04.
>
> The partition table looks like this:
> http://sdrv.ms/1692SMb
>
> I disabled Intel Rapid Start in the BIOS, and re-booted a couple of times.
>
> I booted from the Ubuntu CD and tried to look in the three un-named
> partitions (plus the Windows8_OS one, which is where all my data is
> currently residing) on Disk 1 to see what they contain.
>
> Every one I try to open gets this error message: (The volume name is
> obviously different with each one!)
>
>
>
> Unable to access “Windows8_OS”
>
>
>
> Error mounting /dev/sdb5 at /media/ubuntu/Windows8_OS: Command-line `mount
> -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=999,gid=999,dmas**k=0077,fmask=0177"
> "/dev/sdb5" "/media/ubuntu/Windows8_OS"' exited with non-zero exit status
> 14: Windows is hibernated, refused to mount.
>
> Failed to mount '/dev/sdb5': Operation not permitted
>
> The NTFS partition is in an unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown
>
> Windows fully (no hibernation or fast restarting), or mount the volume
>
> read-only with the 'ro' mount option.
>
> Can anyone help as to why it still thinks that Windows is hibernated when
> I've disabled Rapid Start and re-booted?
>
>
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Daniel Llewellyn
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