My laptop runs two Operating Systeems, windows 8 on one partition and linux mint on another partition, so up to last week i have been dual booting using linux mint and windows 7, before changing to windows 8. I used to shut down windows 7 normally and could access the system drive which i had nstalled windows 7, and browse my files easily.
After installing windows 8, there came a problem. After shutting down windows i could not access the file system which i installed the windows 8 this meant that i had really completely shut down windows. I came to understand this windows 8 “Shut Down” command does not really mean the computer will shut down completely, its called “hybrid shutdown” what it does is hibernating the computer after it logs you off, it takes what is in your RAM stores it so that next time your boot your computer the hard disk basically loads this and there you have it fast boot time. This is sometimes reffered as “fast startup”.
I did a quick check and found out a few scenarios where you might need your computer to completely shut down, here are some of the scenarios:
1. If you dual booting (run multiple operating systems) your computer and you could like to access all shared drives or partitions.
2. If you back up your computer from a boot CD, DVD or even USB flash drive, you may need to make sure that Windows was not previously shut down using the hybrid shutdown method prior to booting your CD (or
DVD or thumb drive).
3. If you are planning to run an antivirus scan from a rescue disk, the system should probably not have been shut down with the hybrid shutdown prior to booting your antivirus disk.
If you know of any other scenarios please leave your comment in the comments section below.
how to shut down windows 8 completely
1. using command prompt
i know at this point you can open the “cmd” if not press the windows button on your computer and type “cmd” without quotes then press enter. Copy this command into the cmd
shutdown /s /t 0
this command will instruct your system to shut dwn in 0 seconds. you can type shutdown /? to see a list of help in the shutdown command.
2. create desktop shutdown shortcut
right click on your desktop from the pop up menu select “create shortcut ” type
shutdown /s /t 0
click ” Next” type in the name you want to give to the shortcut e.g. “shutdown”. Use this if you dont fancy using the cmd or if you use the complete shutdown more often
3. completely disable hybrid shut down
press start type “power” (without quotes) use your mouse on the right panel click on settings.On the left, you should be able to spot the “Power Options” line. Click it. (If you are familiar with the Windows+X keyboard shortcut, you can also use it to bring up a menu from which “Power Options” can be accessed. The Power Options window will
appear. Click the line “Choose
what the power buttons do” on
the left side of the screen. This
will cause the System Settings
window to appear. Click the on “Change settings that are currently unavailable” somewhere under the top paragraph of that window. When you do that, some new options will appear below. If your screen is small,you may not be able to see everything.If so, scroll down (eg by using the scroll bar on the right). In the section with the heading “Shutdown settings”, you should be able to see 4 items. Click the box for “Turn on fast startup (recommended)” to uncheck it. There you afe fast startup is off, click save and close your window.
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