Re: [Hampshire] Win8 recovery (not as OT as it sounds)

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Author: Gordon Scott
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Win8 recovery (not as OT as it sounds)
On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 09:06 +0100, Peter B. wrote:
> Not sure but could the locked bit be that the drive was mounted maybe
> thus locked...


I guess so. None of the Win8 tools would unlock it. IIRC gparted didn't
understand the problem.

Deleting the partition was easy, but I first wasted a huge amount of
time trying not to. :-(

Win8 recovery seems to me quite fundamentally broken.
I still haven't tried dd on it.

G.



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