<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><font face="Times New Roman">I don't mind a few extra seconds on boot time. Thank you for your help.<br id="FontBreak"></font><br><br><font face="Times New Roman">-Kyle Cotton</font><br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: kolbrich@dolphin-it.de<br>Subject: Re: Ubuntu and Windows8.1<br>Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 23:13:46 +0100<br>To: ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com<br><br>Yes, sure. Fast Boot should never be used on dual boot.<div>I had a similar problem when using windows, ->rebooting<- to Ubuntu, writing to an exFat partition and then rebooting to windows.</div><div>Windows wanted to recover the partition and some files were lost. As soon as I disabled fast boot the problem was gone (windows just did some seconds more to start on my SSD).<br><div> <div><br style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mit freundlichen Grüßen / best regards,</span><br style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">Kevin Olbrich.</span><div style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Web: <a href="http://kevin-olbrich.de/" target="_blank">http://kevin-olbrich.de/</a><br><font size="1">--<br><i>Diese E-Mail enthält vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschützte Informationen. 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Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die unbefugte Weitergabe dieser Mail ist nicht gestattet.</i></font></div></div> </div> <br><div><div>Am 22.01.2014 um 23:08 schrieb Kyle Cotton <<a href="mailto:kylecotton763@live.com">kylecotton763@live.com</a>>:</div><br class="ecxApple-interchange-newline"><blockquote><div class="ecxhmmessage" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;"><div dir="ltr"><font face="Times New Roman">Could fast boot cause my dilemma? <br id="ecxFontBreak"></font><br><br><font face="Times New Roman">-Kyle Cotton</font><br><br><div><hr id="ecxstopSpelling">From: <a href="mailto:kolbrich@dolphin-it.de">kolbrich@dolphin-it.de</a><br>Subject: Re: Ubuntu and Windows8.1<br>Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 23:05:45 +0100<br>To: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br><br>You should also deactivate windows fast boot:<div><a href="http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/6320-fast-startup-turn-off-windows-8-a.html" target="_blank">http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/6320-fast-startup-turn-off-windows-8-a.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>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.<br><div><br style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mit freundlichen Grüßen / best regards,</span><br style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">Kevin Olbrich.</span><div style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Web: <a href="http://kevin-olbrich.de/" target="_blank">http://kevin-olbrich.de/</a><br><font size="1">--<br><i>Diese E-Mail enthält vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschützte Informationen. 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Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die unbefugte Weitergabe dieser Mail ist nicht gestattet.</i></font></div></div><br><div><div>Am 22.01.2014 um 23:02 schrieb Kyle Cotton <<a href="mailto:kylecotton763@live.com">kylecotton763@live.com</a>>:</div><br class="ecxApple-interchange-newline"><blockquote><div class="ecxhmmessage" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;"><div dir="ltr"><font face="Times New Roman">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.<br id="ecxFontBreak"></font><br><br><font face="Times New Roman">-Kyle Cotton</font><br><br><div>> To:<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br>> From:<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:jf_byrnes@comcast.net">jf_byrnes@comcast.net</a><br>> Subject: Re: Ubuntu and Windows8.1<br>> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 15:59:17 -0600<br>><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><br>> On 01/22/2014 03:22 PM, Kyle Cotton wrote:<br>> > I had recentely installed 13.10 dual booting along side Windows8.1<br>> > then one day i shutdown my computer to boot into Windows and Windows<br>> > was just gone. I am not sure what happened but something happened<br>> > when i shutdown to boot back to Windows i had just updated 13.10 i<br>> > assume that caused my dilemma. How can i avoid this from<br>> > reoccurring? I just installed Windows8.1 again and Ubuntu13.10 but i<br>> > have not yet updated Ubuntu.<br>> ><br>> > -Kyle Cotton<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><br>><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><br>> I dual boot Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 13.10 and have updated 13.10 multiple<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><br>> times with out that happening so what happened to you is not the norm.<br>><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><br>> Above you say "Windows was just gone". What do you mean by that? If you<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><br>> mean you no longer saw the grub menu that allowed you to pick the OS you<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><br>> wanted to boot to. The first thing I would try was to boot to Ubuntu<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><br>> and open a terminal and type sudo update-grub . If the grub menu<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><br>> was somehow corrupted that should rebuild it and allow you to dual boot<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><br>> again. 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