It is a kind of messed up situation. I installed Ubuntu 13.10 on Windows 8 which didn't display Ubuntu. I then tried Boot-Repair by opening Try Ubuntu without installing. Here is the URL:   At this instant I was unable to load Windows. Then I changed the BIOS setting from UEFI to Legacy which on restarting displayed the message No operating system found.  I installed Ubuntu 13.10 again.  Here are my problems:     I am unable to load Windows. (It is asking for recovery media which I don't have right now.)   In Ubuntu I am unable to mount any Windows partitions.    Error message:  Error mounting /dev/sda8 at /media/dew/Songs, Videos &amp; Movies: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177" "/dev/sda8" "/media/dew/Songs, Videos &amp; Movies"' exited with non-zero exit status 14: The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0). Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount. Failed to mount '/dev/sda8': Operation not permitted The NTFS partition is in an unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown Windows fully (no hibernation or fast restarting), or mount the volume read-only with the 'ro' mount option.   I guess that Windows was hibernated or didn't shutdown properly. I can't open Windows again to ensure that it is properly shutdown (as mentioned earlier I don't have recovery media). I am happy to use Ubuntu for a while until I get my recovery media, but meanwhile is there any way to mount my Windows partitions?
Whenever I boot Ubuntu, I get a message that it cannot mount my windows partition, and I can choose to either wait, skip or manually mount.  When I try to enter my Windows partition through Nautilus I get a message saying that this partition is hibernated and that I need to enter the file system and properly close it, something I have done with no problem so I don't know why this happens.    Here's my partition table, if any more data is needed please let me know.     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sda1            2048    20000767     9999360   83  Linux /dev/sda2        20002814   478001151   228999169    5  Extended /dev/sda3   *   478001152   622532607    72265728    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda4       622532608   625141759     1304576   82  Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda5        20002816   478001151   228999168   83  Linux
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