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Re: [LUG] rescuing data from windows 8 acer machine with efi boot

 

On 14/10/2013 13:29, Kevin Lucas wrote:
It could be the Win8 disk has got suspend to disk turned on or
"fastboot" both will stop Linux from seeing the drive as it's labeled as
"Dirty"
Put it in a Win 7 or 8 machine and run scan disk / check disk



In my experience in this case the drive is still detected by the BIOS and OS, it's just not been mountable by the NTFS driver unless you either force it or mount read-only.

Rob


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