Deleted files whenever I boot to Windows


  1. Dalriada
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    Windows 8.1 64 bit
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    Deleted files whenever I boot to Windows


    Hi guys,

    I use Ubuntu 14.04 in dual boot with Windows 7. I have a separate NTFS partition for my personal files (music, photos, etc).

    I have files working perfectly in Ubuntu, then I go to Windows and they are not longer there, then go back to Ubuntu and the files disappeared. Once they were in a .lost directory on Windows (after running chkdsk), but I couldn't recover much.

    Is there something I could do? I think it has to do with the disk cache :c

    Thanks!

    Ps. The fast-startup option is disabled
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  3. ThrashZone
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    Win-7-Pro64bit 7-H-Prem-64bit
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    Hi and welcome to SevenForums,
    Pretty bold dual booting and sounds like sharing a partition with files with the 2 totally different os's

    I personally would suggest a old fashion dual boot with totally separate hdd's or sdd's
    1 for each os using a device like this
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  4. Dalriada
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    Windows 8.1 64 bit
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    I have only the one HD on my laptop :c

    But the HD has three separated partitions: one for Windows, one for Ubuntu and one for personal data.
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  6. ThrashZone
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    Hi,
    Yep I would imagine Linux and Windows are clashing as expected with a shared data partition
    Sorry missed the laptop part your system spec's show pc/ desktop also windows 8.1
    See the link above my signature to correct the little info you do have there
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