W10 Pro vs Ubuntu; no delete function

[Infrasonic]

I have an idea that I know what it is now. It’s just come to mind that I had the same problem some years ago, and it was Windows “fast boot” which was the culprit. Once chkdsk has finished, I’ll go and turn that off. Here’s hoping.

Fast boot (BIOS) or fast startup (hibernate)?

In W10 you can force a cold boot (restart) on next boot by using shift + shut down if you want to leave fast startup enabled - that's the way I have mine set up.

[GrahamPlatt]

I have an idea that I know what it is now. It’s just come to mind that I had the same problem some years ago, and it was Windows “fast boot” which was the culprit. Once chkdsk has finished, I’ll go and turn that off. Here’s hoping.

Fast boot (BIOS) or fast startup (hibernate)?

In W10 you can force a cold boot (restart) on next boot by using shift + shut down if you want to leave fast startup enabled - that's the way I have mine set up.

Yes, fast startup I meant. I assume that in hibernating, Windows protects it’s state and disallows meddling with the files so it doesn’t get confused on restarting.

Only another half an hour to go, and I’ll let you know.

[GrahamPlatt]

Hurrah, all’s we’ll once more. Simple as that.
So if anyone else has this bother, it’s just a matter of turning off “fast startup”.

[Infrasonic]

Hurrah, all’s we’ll once more. Simple as that.
So if anyone else has this bother, it’s just a matter of turning off “fast startup”.

Have a search and you'll probably find a powershell or cmd script that will stop W10 feature updates overwriting this in future - keeping fast startup off permanently.

[MDW1954]

Thank you for posting all this: a welcome reminder to keep Windows and Linux machines quite separate! I use both, and have done for years -- I started with Linux with Ubuntu 8.04, back in 2008. But dual-boot, no thanks. Glad you got it sorted.

MDW1954

[GrahamPlatt]

Thank you for posting all this: a welcome reminder to keep Windows and Linux machines quite separate! I use both, and have done for years -- I started with Linux with Ubuntu 8.04, back in 2008. But dual-boot, no thanks. Glad you got it sorted.

MDW1954

I pre-date you somewhat. I go back to pre Ubuntu days, early 1990s when I used to play with Slackware & Redhat. I do have a “separate” which is a Mintbox. I dd an OU module on Linux at one point (probably have a certificate somewhere) but I am ever so rusty now.

[MDW1954]

Thank you for posting all this: a welcome reminder to keep Windows and Linux machines quite separate! I use both, and have done for years -- I started with Linux with Ubuntu 8.04, back in 2008. But dual-boot, no thanks. Glad you got it sorted.

MDW1954

I pre-date you somewhat. I go back to pre Ubuntu days, early 1990s when I used to play with Slackware & Redhat. I do have a “separate” which is a Mintbox. I dd an OU module on Linux at one point (probably have a certificate somewhere) but I am ever so rusty now.

I'm sure lots of people here pre-date me; while obviously interested in Linux in the early days (I was something of an IT journalist back then) it was actually an urgent need to find a reliable DOS virtual machine that moved me from spectator to participant.

Scroll down a little, and you'll find me mentioned here:

http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/linux.html

I've looked at Linux certification courses on edX and the OU etc, but struggle to justify the input. If you've learned computing in the 1970s mainframe era (which I did), then a lot of Linux seems obvious.

MDW1954