Can no longer access Windows 8 Partition from linux side

[Murdoc]

Not sure what might have changed to cause this, but I used to be able to access my Windows 8 partition from Kubuntu, but now whenever I reboot from windows to Kubuntu is gives me this error:
"An error occurred while mounting /windows.
keys:Press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery"

I don't know how to do a manual recovery. I've tried skipping and just rebooting, just windows, just kubuntu, back and forth, shutting down first from either, etc. I tried looking for disk maintenance tools to use, but apparently Win8 doesn't need chkdsk anymore. Win8 still boots and works fine, as does Kubuntu, I just can't access the win8 files from Kubuntu anymore. It's a little frustrating since I haven't been able to access linux files from windows since starting to use ext4 (or maybe even 3). Any ideas?

[oshunluvr]

The message comes from trying to mount the windows partition at boot.

"Manual recovery" in this case would be manually mounting the windows partition.

Try adding "noauto" to the fstab line for the windows partition if you want to avoid that error.

While you're in fstab, cut and paste the line in question to your next post so we can start to figure out what's wrong.

[oshunluvr]

You could be having a similar issue to this post:

https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...partition-help

[Murdoc]

Sorry about the late response. I tried the "hybrid" fix you linked to, but there is no such option on my computer. The page linked seems to be for a preview version of Win8, so maybe they took that out. There was nothing else there that I could see to try changing since all the options said that they didn't affect restart, only shut down. Thanks for the tip though.

As for my fstab line:
# /windows was on /dev/sda4 during installation
UUID=5A809ADA809ABBC7 /windows ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 0

Does that help? TIA

[oshunluvr]

I assume you verified the UUID is correct? If you want to be sure you're not having the hybrid boot issue, run "shutdown -F" in the windows command bar before rebooting into Kubuntu.

To avoid the boot time error, add noauto to your fstab options and save. Try mounting from the command line and see what error it produces:

sudo mount /dev/sda4 /windows

[Murdoc]

Ok, it's fixed. I tried the manual mounting, and it told me it was because win was in hibernation. Had to look up how to disable it. Boy, they sure don't make it obvious or anything, do they? Anyway, thanks, you definitely pointed me in the right direction.