Can't access Win8 partition due to hibernation

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Haus of Tech Support > Can't access Win8 partition due to hibernation

Baron Bifford: May 24, 2006; Can't post for 2 years!

I have a 1 TB hard drive which is has a Windows 8 partition and a Linux Mint partition. In Linux Mint, I have trouble mounting my Windows 8 partition because it is in hibernation. I get this error message that says "Windows is hibernated, refused to mount". I had already disabled Fast Startup in Windows 8, so I don't know why it is hibernating whenever I shut down. Right now, I have to resort to deleting the hibernation file with this terminal command:

sudo ntfs-3g -o remove_hiberfile /dev/sda2 /mnt

I would like a better solution. I would like to know how to stop Win8 from hibernating when it shuts down.

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Michaellaneous: Oct 30, 2013

Try to use

code:

shutdown -F -T 5 -C "Full shutdown nonsense or whatever"

in windows and see if that works.

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# ? Sep 22, 2014 11:59

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