- Oct 23, 2012
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When you power down a PC running Windows 7, the operating system gets loaded fully again on the next start of the system. The same is true when you reboot the PC. On Windows 8, things are different.Windows 8 appears to cache information about the file system and the FAT and NTFS drives connected to the PC when it prepares the system for Fast Startup. That’s not a problem if you are only using a single operating system on your computer, but if you are using a dual boot system, be it Linux or another version of Windows, you may end up running into issues.
Fixing the issue
You can shutdown Windows completely with the command shutdown.exe /s /t 0 which bypasses the caching. The easiest way to use the option is to create a new shortcut on your desktop by right-clicking on it and selecting New > Shortcut from the options. Enter the command as the target and save it. A click on the shortcut from now on will shut down the computer completely so that you do not run into dual-booting issues.
The second option that you have is to disable Fast Startup. You do that in the following way:
Press the Windows key to open the start screen
Enter Power and click on the Power Options
Click on Choose what the power buttons do on the left
Scroll down until you see Shutdown settings
Locate the Turn on fast startup (recommended) setting
Uncheck the box
Click Save changes
You may need to click on Change settings that are currently unavailable at the top before you can make the change.
Some Linux distributions like Fedora 17 are able to detect the new state of a NTFS partition and will only allow read access to the partitions in this case. Others do not have the protection yet.
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Fixing the issue
You can shutdown Windows completely with the command shutdown.exe /s /t 0 which bypasses the caching. The easiest way to use the option is to create a new shortcut on your desktop by right-clicking on it and selecting New > Shortcut from the options. Enter the command as the target and save it. A click on the shortcut from now on will shut down the computer completely so that you do not run into dual-booting issues.
The second option that you have is to disable Fast Startup. You do that in the following way:
Press the Windows key to open the start screen
Enter Power and click on the Power Options
Click on Choose what the power buttons do on the left
Scroll down until you see Shutdown settings
Locate the Turn on fast startup (recommended) setting
Uncheck the box
Click Save changes
You may need to click on Change settings that are currently unavailable at the top before you can make the change.
Some Linux distributions like Fedora 17 are able to detect the new state of a NTFS partition and will only allow read access to the partitions in this case. Others do not have the protection yet.
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