I get that awful red alert telling me Win10 is in an unstable condition, and to go and do a FULL shutdown wisthout hibernation.
I do a FULL shutdown every time I use Win10 on the HP Compaq desktop.
It does let me access (mount) the Win7 partition(on the same hard drive as Win10).
I also have 2 HDD’s on a USB device connected to the HP Desktop, and both are able to be accessed(mounted) when Imturn the USB hub on.
Win10 on the hp compaq desktop is shutdown via a shortcut that bypasses the MS inherent hibernation mode, and Win10 is set to not use ‘Fastboot’.
BUT, my Toshiba laptop and the HP AllInOne both Win10 shutdown via the normal shutdown icon, and neither have a problem accessing (mounting) the Win10 partitions. Both have fastboot disabled.
The last thing to say is that Leap 15 is installed on a PCI PATA connection card.
I turned off fast boot in Windows. And for a while, that worked and I could mount Windows partitions in linux.
That stopped working. So I disabled hibernation in Windows, and now I can again mount Windows partitions.
I have since discovered that there is a different trick. When rebooting from Windows, I hold down SHIFT while clicking “Restart”. And the Windows shutdown is then slower – it apparently does completely shutdown. This might be the best way to go.
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That will pop into the restore windows option (shift+restart), I think you meant shift+shutdown… You can also add a shortcut with shutdown /s /t 5 (/s = full shutdown /t gives five seconds to change your mind…).
I never “shutdown” Windows 7&up on my own PCs. All my PCs are multiboot. So, in Windows I turn off swap, turn off hibernate, turn off fast boot, and don’t use shutdown. Instead, I select restart. When subsequently I see the Grub menu, I use the power switch.
When I actually want to use Windows, I try to remember to disconnect the ethernet cable before booting it, so that I can actually do what I want while it’s running, instead of waiting for update processes and automatic reboots. When I think about it and don’t need its use for a day or overnight, I plug in the ethernet cable and let it do what it wants, twice or so each year.
The command script I use on the HP desktop is “shutdown /s /f /t 0”. (No quotes)
I will go in and remove hibernate from the options, but before a recent Leap update(I don’t know which one) I didn’t have problems accessing the Win10 partition.
I know, I know, I should have said that last statement in my OP. My bad!
So dang it all! I just started the desktop to make the changes mentioned in my last post,
AND GRUB IS MISSING THE WIN10 MENU OPTION.
Now I have to reboot and hope it comes bake, or go in and to the make config th8ng, AGAIN!
I unchecked it in YaST, did the OK thing and let it build what it builds, then closed Yast,
Then I went back into YaST and re-checked the Probe Foreign OS, OK’d it to let it re-build, closed YaST and re-started Leap, and it brought Win10 back into the GRUB menu.
This is not the first time that has happened, Seems like once every couple of months it does this, and I’m thinking it is an update to Leap that causes it.
No, fastboot was off. I check that after every MS update on all my machines with Win10.
Oddly enough, my ‘shortcut’ to “shutdown /s /f /t 0” doesn’t do the trick, and opening a regular CMD window doesn’t either.
But if I open a CMD as administrator, it does a good job of turning windows off fully.
Which I don’t understand, because I AM the administrator.
Oh well, it is just a couple more things. I will find out how to re-do the shortcut and make it as administrator.
Thanks to all for the input!
Bill L
I forgot another thing;
I found that ‘hybrid sleep’ was turned back on in the power settings. SO I turned it back off.
But, I still had to do the full shutdown as administrator.
You can also add a shortcut with shutdown /s /t 5 (/s = full shutdown /t gives five seconds to change your mind…).