Actually there is a similar question on the community before as well but what I am facing is a different problem. Also there the person has not properly posted the status of his grub. Actually I installed windows 8.1 on my laptop & it was working fine. Then I installed Ubuntu on another partition & as per the instructions again booted using live usb of Ubuntu to repair GRUB using boot repair. You can find the boot repair report . But now the GRUB menu is not showing Windows option at all & I am unable to boot into Windows. Please help me - it's urgent!! Any kind of help will be appreciated.
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Mudit Kapil
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Windows 8 does not shut down properly by default. I suspect this is your problem. In your code I see:
Failed to mount '/dev/sda3': 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.
mount /dev/sda3 : Error code 14
mount -r /dev/sda3 /mnt/boot-sav/sda3
Try mounting as suggested and run
sudo update-grub
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First of all thanks to Carl for providing a hint - big hint. Actually my drives were not getting mounted even by using mount -r /dev/sda3 /mnt/boot-sav/sda3 but then I serached over net. I found out that my windows was not properly shutdown previous time, so the grub is showing trouble. So, I needed to manually mount the partitions & to achieve that I had to go to Disks tool in Ubuntu & follow the following steps as given in this link. Then, I went to GRUB configure(has to be downloaded) to set the display resolution to 680*480 minimum. Then grub starts showing Windows. Boot into windows, download appropriate display drivers & then get back to Ubuntu to set back Grub to its original resolution. Everytihng is okay now..
