[ubuntu-uk] Dual booting Windows 8.1 woth Ubuntu 13.10

[Gordon Burgess-Parker]

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On 06/11/2013 14:04, Daniel Llewellyn wrote:
> On 6 November 2013 12:27, Gordon Burgess-Parker
> <gbplinux at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 06/11/2013 12:20, Dave Morley wrote:
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>>> However you could do better diagnosis by logging into the live 
>>> desktop session and see for example what drives are visible
>>> from 13.10 etc :)
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>> This is were it gets odd. On Windows 8, 13.04 could see all the
>> drives but not mount them. 13.10 could see all the drives and
>> mount them. After upgrade to 8.1 both versions see all the
>> drives, but neither can now mount them.
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> 
> if your windows system is set to hibernate instead of shutdown when
> you click the poweroff button then ubuntu won't be able to mount
> the windows partition because windows retains a lock while
> hibernated.
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Hi, I need to update - I had a duff iso to usb conversion of 13.10. I
re-did it and now 13.10 sees the Windows drives and mounts them.
But the error that the installer can't detect any OS is still there...
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