[Coco] [OT] Windows 8

[mike delyea]

Sorry about keeping the OT going but you might want to use a live gparted
CD to check the flags on the win 8 recovery partition.  It might be set to
something weird like diagnostic or hidden or something,


On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 4:28 PM, <farna at amc-mag.com> wrote:

> I use Linux Mint almost exclusively. Have XP installed in VM on my desktop
> machine.
>
> Windows 8 and dual boot... what a nightmare! I tried on a new machine
> (bought for a friend) and managed to delete Windows 8 by accident. I
> couldn't get it to show me a screen that showed both operating systems,
> and decided to reinstall Mint 16. It detected the existing Mint 16 and
> asked if I wanted to install over it. I selected "install over existing",
> assuming it would do just that, install over the existing installation
> keeping the same partitions. Wrong!! The entire partition table was wiped
> and Mint installed on the whole HD. Well, no biggie, I made a restore DVD
> before doing all this. Well, that is useless! It relies on the restore
> partition on the hard drive. Hmm.... So I downloaded a bootable partition
> recovery CD .iso image that works with Win8. No problem! Found the
> partition, and I restored it. Boot from the recover CD, and it still can't
> find the recovery partition! Went back and restored every Win8 partition
> the CD could find (several boot partitions), and still no go! I bought
> this thing through NewEgg, but it was drop shipped from somewhere - no
> paperwork, just a mailing label. I'll be going through them to either
> return it or get recovery media, but they are a little slow to respond in
> e-mail. Never had a problem with them before though.  I might be asking if
> someone can put their Win8 recovery partition on a USB drive and send to
> me though. My friend wants Win8, but would like to learn/play with Mint
> also. I think that I'll install Mint in a VM on Win8 instead of trying a
> dual boot when I get this mess straightened out - at least until
> Ubuntu/Mint works out an easy install. I have read up on what I need to do
> due to the change in boot methods by Win8 -- wonder why MS did something
> that won't play well with others... (tongue real far in cheek as I said
> that!!)
>
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