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OK, so the wonderful windows fast-boot completely ****ed my laptop (the famous error 185, where fast-boot causes the NTFS system partition to look like RAW, so the machine is bricked)*
It's win 8.1 and lenovo, so it will only accept a recovery disc that is made for a win 8.1 lenovo machine -- which is completely fruggin' stupid, because all I need is DISKPART and CHKDSK -- and, of course, when you look in the box, you find that they didn't provide one.
So I go to the lenovo site, to see about downloading an ISO, and discover why they don't include a recovery disc -- 35 reasons why, in fact. Plus postage.
So I fill out their registration form, and click to go through to the payment page...
... But I can't, because "The address you entered has been corrected. Please check and approve the changes!" (yes, the extremely rude exclamation point is part of the quote).
By "corrected", they mean "put into block capitals", because that is the only change. But whatever; I click to go through to the payment page...
... But I can't, because "The address you entered has been corrected. Please check and approve the changes!".
This time, by "corrected", they mean "put back into title case", because that is the only change. But whatever; I click to go through to the payment page...
... But I can't, because "The address you entered has been corrected. Please check and approve the changes!".
Now by "corrected", they mean "left exactly as it was last time", because there are no changes at all. But whatever; I click to go through to the payment page...
... And I think you get the picture: there was no way off that page, because they kept "correcting" my address.
So I look for the contact form, find it, and immediately get pissed off about the amount of personal details that are "mandatory" -- and guess what!
The "mandatory" fields include address fields -- so I just gave up the ghost.
So no EUR 35 for lenovo -- in fact, no anything for lenovo from me ever again.
*No, I didn't have fast-boot active (do I look like the kind of stupid idiot who would risk losing a machine just so I could brag about how quickly it starts?), but if your laptop gets low on power, windows completely ignores your "disable fastboot" command, and uses it against your wishes -- killing your machine by doing something you've clearly instructed it not to do.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You're not alone: my brother has an old Dell that is now bricked; fortunately, he has another one of the same model and is able to clone its hard-drive and restore Win 7.
If only suffering shared meant suffering diluted.
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cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Yup. Unfortunately, only three other people in the world have win 8 machines, and none of them even know how to turn them on.
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Can you download the 8.1 Iso , burn to CD/DVD/USB and then boot from that to try a boot repair ?
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Nope. They want the EUR 35 so badly that they stamp on guys who offer the download.
But not badly enough to make it possible for people to pay them, obviously.
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I've never worked on a Leveo before but I have downloaded the Standard ISO from microsoft to repair a boot problem in windows 8 before.
Edit:
Here is a link:
Windows 8 ISO[^]
modified 21-Aug-16 10:13am.
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I don't want to reinstall, because that would mean converting and formatting the RAW partition that isn't really RAW -- it still has the OS, programs, drivers, and data on it, all configured perfectly to do what I need to do with it.
If I have to reinstall and set everything up again, I'd rather do it on a new (non-lenovo) machine.
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you are only supposed to do a boot repair not a reinstall.
it is most likely like the one I worked on that messed up the BCD Data.
It took some work but I finally got it repaired.
Without seeing it I could not be sure though.
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What happens is that the fastboot thing doesn't terminate properly, or something, and, because it's ms and they lets thing like that interfere with everything else, the NTFS header gets screwed up/lost/embuggered, so the system partition looks like it's RAW, and the data on it (i.e. the system, program files, user data -- y'know, nothing important) can't be accessed for love nor money.
Because fastboot causes this so often, they amended chkdsk so that it could find the secondary NTFS data, and use that to (instantly) rebuild the partition, leaving all the "unimportant" files & data intact.
What's even more annoying is that the machine is dual boot with Ubuntu, but Ubuntu can't do a damned thing to fix this ms c*ck-up.
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Yup, but it's a tad difficult to create a recovery disk when all the files you need to do so are on a disc that's reported as RAW.
Do yourself a favour: turn off the god-awful fastboot service (and indeed anything else connected with window's hybernate functions), before you end up in the same boat.
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It's also in Win 10, and it's caused a few problems there as well - it prevents a "full shutdown" so some things don't update properly and fail as a result.
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The Lounge: "here's an odd one for you"[^]
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For reference, to disable it in Win10:
1) Open the (generally useless) Settings app.
2) "System"..."Power and sleep"..."Additional power settings"..."Choose what the power buttons do"...Uncheck "Turn on fast startup (recommended)".
3) "Save changes".
4) Probably, reboot.
It's not exactly obvious, is it?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
modified 21-Aug-16 4:40am.
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Don't forget to double-check that the change has taken, by making sure that the hibernate file (I can't remember what it's called, but it's a few gig in the root dir of the system drive) is gone.
If it's still there, go through all the settings that can use hibernate until it disappears -- leaving an old one there could really screw up your system, if windows decides to ignore your settings.
How it could screw it up more than by bricking it, I don't know -- but ms has proven itself to be more creative than me, in that area.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Don't forget to double-check that the change has taken, by making sure that the hibernate file (I can't remember what it's called, but it's a few gig in the root dir of the system drive) is gone.
Turn it off at the command line.
Administrator Command Prompt - powercfg.exe -h off.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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That address thing sounds familiar. Only I had it on the Microsoft site and with my phone number.
06... got corrected to 0(6)..., which clearly isn't valid. +316... got corrected too, but also not as it should. Well, about 50 attempts and an hour later I finally got it exactly the way they wanted it to 
Why can't these big companies, who make ground breaking hard- and/or software, and who have millions of dollars to spend, build a decent consumer website? 
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Why pay for customer service when you have everyone willing to throw their 2 cents worth in for free.
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As big a fan of his, I would have to introduce you to the lyrical styling so of Derek William Dick.
This space for rent
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Will glass coffins be a success?
Remains to be seen.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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And is a will is a dead giveaway?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Much like musicians that decompose.
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And sewage workers that just waste away.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Will they ever have a day when someone doesn't give them sh*t?
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Now you're just taking the p*ss...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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