I have a dual-boot desktop computer with Ubuntu + Windows 11. I foolishly played around with Window's Driver Verifier feature, and when I restarted Windows, it went into an endless cycle of Blue Screen of Death saying:
DRIVER_VERIFIER_DETECTED_VIOLATION
In some instances, it would load to the Repair screen. I tried to Repair but it failed.
I also tried to press F8 and Shift-F8 repeatedly after choosing the Windows partition but the BSOD came up anyways. I read online that modern computers don't offer the choice of pressing F8 for safe mode anymore...is it true?
So I boot into Ubuntu and look into ways to disable Driver Verifier from there.
First, I tried to open the system32 folder in the Windows partition to delete the driver verifier .exe file, but I got the error:
This location could not be displayed...input/output error
I tried to unmount then remount the Windows partition using this command:
sudo mount -t ntfs -3g -o rw /dev/sda3 /media.windows
But I got error
Mount is denied because the NTFS volume is already exclusively opened
I tried to repair the Windows partition from Ubuntu, but got error message that Windows is in an unclean stage...
Any ideas what I can do next?