Ubuntu and Windows8.1

[Kevin Olbrich]

You should also deactivate windows fast boot:
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/6320-fast-startup-turn-off-windows-8-a.html

This can cause big damage because windows does not write all changes to disk or read changes - it just reuses its cache when fast boot is on.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / best regards,
Kevin Olbrich.
Web: http://kevin-olbrich.de/
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Am 22.01.2014 um 23:02 schrieb Kyle Cotton <kylecotton763 at live.com>:

> Thank you i have had Grub disappear on me but that is a easy fix but what i mean by Windows being gone is that the OS was totally gone Ubuntu was untouched but the Windows partition of my hard drive was gone and i had 178Gigabytes free where Windows once was. It was very odd.
> 
> 
> -Kyle Cotton
> 
> > To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > From: jf_byrnes at comcast.net
> > Subject: Re: Ubuntu and Windows8.1
> > Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 15:59:17 -0600
> > 
> > On 01/22/2014 03:22 PM, Kyle Cotton wrote:
> > > I had recentely installed 13.10 dual booting along side Windows8.1
> > > then one day i shutdown my computer to boot into Windows and Windows
> > > was just gone. I am not sure what happened but something happened
> > > when i shutdown to boot back to Windows i had just updated 13.10 i
> > > assume that caused my dilemma. How can i avoid this from
> > > reoccurring? I just installed Windows8.1 again and Ubuntu13.10 but i
> > > have not yet updated Ubuntu.
> > >
> > > -Kyle Cotton
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > I dual boot Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 13.10 and have updated 13.10 multiple 
> > times with out that happening so what happened to you is not the norm.
> > 
> > Above you say "Windows was just gone". What do you mean by that? If you 
> > mean you no longer saw the grub menu that allowed you to pick the OS you 
> > wanted to boot to. The first thing I would try was to boot to Ubuntu 
> > and open a terminal and type sudo update-grub . If the grub menu 
> > was somehow corrupted that should rebuild it and allow you to dual boot 
> > again. If that doesn't work then someone with more knowledge than 
> > myself will need to help you.
> > 
> > Regards, Jim
> > 
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