Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dual-booting Ubuntu 13.04 and Windows 8
On 24/07/2013 18:07, Liam Proven wrote: On 24 July 2013 16:26, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone help as to why it still thinks that Windows is hibernated when I've disabled Rapid Start and re-booted? Can you disable hibernation altogether? Ha! Tried that using the command /powercfg /hibernate . /Closed down, started with the Novo button to bring up the boot menu - nothing works! Can't boot into anything except the normal start... :o / / -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dual-booting Ubuntu 13.04 and Windows 8
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 gbpli...@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? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Daniel Llewellyn -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dual-booting Ubuntu 13.04 and Windows 8
On 24 July 2013 16:26, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone help as to why it still thinks that Windows is hibernated when I've disabled Rapid Start and re-booted? Can you disable hibernation altogether? Have you got a Windows CD - it doesn't need to be Win8, an older version will do - from which you can boot and run `CHKDSK /F` on all the drives? That should leave them clean. Might be worth giving them a defrag, too. Defraggler is quick, thorough and has a freebie eval version. Also, you could use Windows Disk Management to shrink the Windows partition and make room for Ubuntu. (Post-defrag, that is.) -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dual-booting Ubuntu 13.04 with Windows 8 on a Lenovo U410
Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: When it comes to the actual install I'm a bit nervous as although I'm fairly competent with both Linux and Windows, I've never had a machine with SSD/HDD in a false raid like this before, it's only two months old, and I've never had a machine where I didn't have a Windows install disk! What's the false raid? I thought it appeared as simply two disks, one SSD and the other traditional spinning rust. The installer sees the 500 GB HDD, so I assume I can create a partition and install Ubuntu on that. Generally, yes. You will want to make certain, though, that not only can it see the HDD but it can also see the partitions on it, and the files therein. If it cannot, then this suggests there's some interesting software layers going on which may need to be worked around. Where do I put the boot loader though? It's telling me it wants to put it on the SSD. Is this where it should go? It should go on the disk that the BIOS boots, which is likely to be the SSD. I'm assuming that because the installer sees all the partitions and disks, I don't need to turn off UEFI or RAID or anything else. Check you can see the files and then you should be okay. UEFI shouldn't cause any problems, this pseudo-raid setup might, but I can't find any details of it. -- Avi -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
