[Coco] [OT] Windows 8

[John Musbach]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:
>
> I had my boot sector destoyed a while back and tried everything I knew for
> almost a month to get to the recovery partition and nothing worked.
>
> Did you try in a Recovery Console, "fix /mbr"?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mike delyea <mdelyea at gmail.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Wed, Feb 12, 2014 6:43 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] [OT] Windows 8
>
>
> 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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Best Regards,

John Musbach