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A few weeks ago, I tried to boot from from Windows 8 but it won't load only a blank screen appears. So I had no choice but to use Ubuntu. When I was on ubuntu I tried to access the hdd that the Windows 8 and all that came out was saying : 

unable to mount filesystem  Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 14: Windows is hibernated, refused to mount.
Failed to mount '/dev/sda1': Operation not permitted
The NTFS partition is hibernated. Please resume and shutdown Windows
properly, or mount the volume read-only with the 'ro' mount option, or
mount the volume read-write with the 'remove_hiberfile' mount option.
For example type on the command line:

            mount -t ntfs-3g -o remove_hiberfile /dev/sda1 /media/C290936990936329

I need to boot back my windows 8 please helpp me.

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and what does it say after you run mount with remove_hiberfile? – Sc0rian Feb 23 at 9:25

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Have you try to update grub

  1. Update grub with -> $ sudo update-grub
  2. Restar with -> $ sudo reboot
  3. Select windows at grub (show as -> Windows Recovery Enviorment or will show -> Windows 8 (loader) (/dev/sda1))
  4. Onces windows open shut resume for the hibernation
  5. For mount /dev/sda1 you need to shut down Windows and not hibernate
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