{"id":155,"date":"2014-03-14T09:23:42","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T13:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/?p=155"},"modified":"2017-01-31T19:50:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T00:50:26","slug":"time-to-get-back-to-posting-first-up-windows-8-1-vs-linux-mint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/2014\/03\/14\/time-to-get-back-to-posting-first-up-windows-8-1-vs-linux-mint\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to get back to posting. First up: &#8220;Windows 8.1 vs Linux Mint&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>A few days ago, I was playing a game on the Windows partition of my laptop. I finished up the game, and there was a message telling me that the Windows 8.1 update was ready to be installed. Several reboots later, Windows was updated, and my boot partition lay a mangled heap on my hard drive. Linux Mint was nowhere to be seen.<\/div>\n<p>Windows 8.1: Fine<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Linux Mint: Innaccessible. Feared dead.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I was despondent, for I was too busy to attempt to fix the situation. Work was pressing, and life was insistent. Finally, a few days later, I found the time to attempt a fix. The first tool I found was known by the unassuming name of &#8220;Boot-Repair&#8221;. I reached. I grasped. I burned it to a CD-ROM. I ran the program, still fearing for my linux partition. Boot-Repair lead me along a merry path, performing great deeds, and giving me minor tasks of my own to perform along the way. And then it stopped, and Boot-Repair turned around and triumphantly proclaimed, &#8220;IT IS FIXED! Now restart your computer!&#8221; So I restarted my computer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>WTF!#(*)!@#<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I rebooted. Then I tried the special reboot button that I used to reboot into Windows. (It&#8217;s a Lenovo Y500. They have a special reboot button) No luck. Nothing worked. I cast about several different ways until I finally discovered what had happened. Boot-Repair had overwritten the boot record ON THE WINDOWS PARTITION. Windows 8.1, with all of its UEFI must-protect-myself-from-the-user attitude, was now refusing to boot. Meanwhile my Linux Mint partition was now fully accessible.<\/div>\n<div>Windows 8.1: Inaccessible. Presumed encrypted to hell.<\/div>\n<div>Linux Mint: Fine.<\/div>\n<p>And thus I am forced to conclude that my Windows partition has been ruined beyond my will to attempt yet another boot manager fix. Time to reformat my hard drive as a full Linux machine. If I try to play another game, it will have to be under Linux. Windows 8 has proven that it simply doesn&#8217;t play well with others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, I was playing a game on the Windows partition of my laptop. I finished up the game, and there was a message telling me that the Windows 8.1 update was ready to be installed. Several reboots &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/2014\/03\/14\/time-to-get-back-to-posting-first-up-windows-8-1-vs-linux-mint\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}