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Mount hibernated windows paritition

I am trying to mount my windows partition at boot. It works fine when windows in shutdown, but when windows is hibernated, it can't be mounted as rw and I am sent to the root shell at boot. I tried to ...
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Windows 8 does not hibernate without boot menu installed

I run a quad-boot with Fedora, Ubuntu, ChromiumOS, and Windows 8. I have discovered that Windows 8 will no longer hibernate - it just brings me back to the lock screen. When I run it from ...
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How to enable win7 to hibernate on multi-boot environment?

I run a HP DV6000 multi-boot environment with MacOSX, Ubuntu and Windows 7. In Windows 7 I cannot hibernate. After a long research, I've found that my Windows 7 partition must be set as active to ...
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How to hibernate & switch between multiple Windows 7s?

Currently we are sharing a PC at home. I bought a new SSD disk and I want to encrypt it with TruCrypt (or BitLocker) & install a new Windows 7. Is it possible to see the OS selection menu when I ...
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Skip dual boot selection screen after hibernation on Windows 7?

When I wake the machine up from a Windows 7 hibernate, the boot selection screen comes up rather than starting the hibernate resume, and I have to select Windows 7 on the list. Is there any way to ...
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Is it possible to enable hibernation when dual booting Windows?

I'd love to be able to hibernate one Windows instance, boot into another, then switch back to the first instance and have it resume my hibernated state. Is there some sort of hack or software product ...
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Hibernating and booting into another OS: will my filesystems be corrupted?

IMPORTANT If you came here looking for an answer to this question, please read all the answers below. There are some testimonials from people who have lost data doing this. If you plan to do this ...