Dual Booting with mSATA causing file corruption

Have a T520 with an Intel SSD. Last week I added a Kingston mSATA to install Windows 8 Consumer Preview. Pulled the SSD before installing Windows 8. Then put it back in. Since doing the install have had lots of issues with both drives, although most of the issues are with the SSD and Windows 7. Somehow, a bunch of system files and program files on the SSD have been corrupted.
Whenever I would boot to Windows 8 on the mSATA, Windows 8 would work fine. But when I would shut down and then boot to Win7 on the SSD, CHKDSK would run after the opening Windows logo and before the login screen, usually to check the SSD, but sometimes the mSATA., saying the disk needed to be checked for consistency. The first few times, CHKDSK found just a few things to fix. Then one time Win7 wouldn't open after a CHKDSK...I'd get a black screen with a cursor arrow (that I could move with the trackpoint). So I booted to the Win7 install disk and did a repair and that seemed to fix the system problems (although a few programs still have issues). I ran the Intel SSD Toolbox to scan the SSD and it didn't find any problems.
Then tonight I booted to the mSATA (no problems), then when I booted to the SSD and CHKDSK ran, it found a bunch of problems on the SSD. Here are a few representative samples:
Attribute record of type 0xa0 and instance tag 0x4 is cross linked
starting at 0x10c for possibly 0x5 clusters.
Some clusters occupied by attribute of type 0xa0 and instance tag 0x4
in file 0x1c9 is already in use.
Deleting corrupt attribute record (160, $I30)
from file record segment 457.
The index bitmap for index $I30 in file 0x13e is invalid or missing.
Correcting error in index $I30 for file 318.
Recovering orphaned file System.Data.DataSetExtensions.dll (15412) into directory file 318.
Recovering orphaned file System.Data.Entity.Design.dll (15414) into directory file 318.
Figure I need to do a clean reinstall of Win7 on both drives, but would like to figure out what's going on before I do so I don't spend a day reinstalling only to have the same problems reappear.
All help appreciated.
Jon

zoltanthegypsy wrote:
Is there some way to get '8 to do full shutdown? Does that make any difference?
Yes. Fast Startup can be disabled. I haven't discovered all of the ways to get to the option but here's at least one of them:
Control Panel | Power Options | System Settings
You'll see the checkbox under the Shutdown Settings section of the page at the bottom. Most likely you'll need to click the admin permission required link at the top to "Change settings that are currently unavailable".
The way I really discovered this was when I went to the "Choose what closing the lid does" task in the Power Options area.

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Last edited by DrKillPatient (2012-06-20 18:38:01)

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DrKillPatient wrote:I
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DrKillPatient wrote:
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20GB ext4 Debian / partition
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[SOLVED] Dual boot with ubuntu w/o installing GRUB? (YES)

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I'd really like to NOT mess up booting ubuntu! (Another option might be install arch to a separate disk with the ubuntu disk disconnected, then copy the whole install over via a USB adapter...I've done worse!)
TIA for any help!
Edit: so I guess there's three questions:
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2 - What's the correct syntax for menu.lst to access and boot arch?
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Last edited by Flemur (2012-05-25 15:24:18)

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Then
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ivokosir wrote:It may be that you didn't install os-prober before running grub-mkconfig. This happened to me once, I hope I'm not too late to warn you.
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Cheers Montana.
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Hi everyone,
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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UEFI
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UEFI_Bootloaders
and the incredibly helpful:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginner%27s_Guide
along with many forum posts. unfortunately this:
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appears out of date and so I need to ask you fine people my question.
If I want to dual boot Arch with my Windows 8 my question is on the boot partition. I have an existing windows EFI boot partition. should I mount this partition to my "/mnt/boot/efi" folder and then copy the files to this partition when I am setting up rEFInd (my chosen bootloader from wiki page, comments/suggestions are welcome) or should I setup a separate boot partition for my arch installation. I assume from reading about rEFInd that the former is how I should do it as this seems to be how refind would be able to "see" my windows bootloader.
The reason I am double checking and asking here is I know that windows can be a temperamental beast and is very prone to not booting so I don't want to mess with the windows boot partition unduly.
Thanks in advance guys, looking forward to getting my arch working!
Last edited by crashandburn4 (2013-03-03 13:42:43)

$esp = EFI System Partition?
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in addition, as I am slightly new to this is there any tutorial that can tell me how to set up gummiboot? I've looked here:
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/gummiboot
but don't see anything in the way of detailed instructions.
from your post: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=159061
I'm gonna guess it's something like this (please let me know if this is right)
/mount $ESP /mnt/boot
pacman -S gummiboot
(after chrooting)
//exit chroot
gummiboot
*stuff saying gummiboot is not configured*
gummiboot install
is it something like that? can anyone point me towards a manual
Last edited by crashandburn4 (2013-03-03 14:58:53)

[SOLVED] Dual boot with Windows 8, problems after updating Windows

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So, neither of these problems are critical for me at the moment. I can fix my fstab and just press a hotkey at startup.
EDIT: I have avoided the /etc/fstab issue by referencing my partitions using UUID as specified in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fstab.
How do I set the default boot device back to grub? There is some weirdness here, I think windows is using UEFI booting and my grub uses the old booting system.
Last edited by bjmnbraun (2014-05-14 19:00:36)

Rex: I tried that command, got some warning messages regarding blocklists, but no dice.
Loqs: You are right about windows using a ESP and UEFI while my linux is not booting using UEFI. My bios is configured to try "Legacy boot" first before trying UEFI. Getting linux to boot using UEFI seemed like a pain, so...
I went into my BIOS settings and found that the Windows Boot Manager boot device was listed in front of my hard disk (which boots linux). I don't think this used to be the case, so something about the update caused my BIOS to reorder the boot devices (probably because the partitions changed).
Switching my hard disk to be above the Windows Boot Manager in the boot device list now makes me boot into linux by default, and I can boot into windows by pressing a hotkey at bootup and selecting the windows boot manager.

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