i figured out why this doesn't work. more than likely this is happening because you are booting from a windows 8 system. now what they have done is they got rid of the hibernation option and renamed it "the quick start up option. so even if you believed you've shut down, its just fancy hibernation. what you will need to do is go into the control panel of windows 8 navigate to power options and disable the quick start up option so when you "shut down" you will actually shut down and as a result the files on the partition can now be accessed and edited. no coding needed . I laughed to myself. why is windows starting a war with Linux? they'll lose every time. Daveon Cooper Kingston, Jamaica

It is more than likely that this is happening because you are booting from a Windows 8 system. What they have done is make it so that when you turn off your computer it really goes into hibernation for a quicker boot when you switch it on again.

What you will need to do is to go into the Control Panel section of Windows 8, navigate to power options and disable the quick start up option so that when you shut down, you will actually have shut down your system and as a result the files on the partition will be able to be accessed and edited.