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http://ubuntuforums.org – Hello, I am trying to get ubuntu to dual boot with windows 8 on my notebook. Whenever I boot up, it goes directly to windows. The notebook is a lenovo z580 that came preloaded with windows 7. I did a clean install for windows 8. I am a newbie to linux so please bare with me. My bios states that "UEFI Boot" is enabled in boot settings, but its seems that the windows 8 partition is ntfs and loads through mbr. (windows Diskpart doesn't indicate that its gpt either) Here are my steps. I shrunk the windows partition to free up space using a third party program in windows since windows (Hardware)

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Hi there!

I am attempting to dual boot Windows HPC Server 2008 on my existing Linux(Ubuntu) HPC machine. I know that Windows will wipe the MBR and I have the Ubuntu LiveCD to restore GRUB when that happens, but I am having some trouble with my disk partitions.

As of right now, when I boot into the Windows installation, it shows no disks available to install onto.

Hi,

I have a OEM Windows 8 Sony Vaio E-series. Tried dual booting Linux Secure Remix (Ubuntu 12.10) with EFI having followed the instructions here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI

Disabled Secure-boot.

No option in BIOS to disable fast-boot.

Ran Boot-Repair with recommended conditions and restarted.

Hello,

I have a partition that I resized using gparted from my ubuntu and after that I installed windows 7 on that.

partition 1: ubuntu partition 2: windows partition 3: unallocated

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partition 1: ubuntu partition 2: windows (bigger)

Now theres a bit of freespace left and I would like to resize my windows 7 partition to use that free space.

If I partition it from ubuntu with gparted, t

hey all,

Just bought an asus n76 and managed to kill the windows 7 install the same day!

there was a generous enough space on the 1st hdd (there are 2 x 1tb), but i forgot/failed to create a dedicated boot partition for linux and ended up writing linux boot partitition to windows boot partition.

obviously, windows would not boot with grub, but through the bios was able to boot into the windows

Ok so I'm having a bit of trouble.

I have installed Ubuntu on my hard drive first and then partitioned and installed Windows 7.

[ubuntu] Triple Boot:: help 19 weeks 2 hours ago

Hello,

As of now my box is set up in order to dual boot with GRUB (ubuntu and windows 7). I would like to add Windows 8 and also keep Windows 7, so I reduced Win7's partition and got some free space on my HD.

What's the easiest way to add windows 8 and get a triple boot setting?

[all variants] Windows 8 Mistake 33 weeks 10 hours ago

Ok guys, I messed up. I installed Windows 8 on an open partition of my Linux machine without reading up on it at all and now I can't see my Ubuntu partition through the new UEFI boot junk. I'm not seeing any solutions online, other than reinstalling Ubuntu 12.04 now that I have Windows up and running.

I have a Windows 7 computer. This is what I did:

Using Windows Disk Management, shrunk the available hard drive producing a partition more than large enough for Ubuntu. Changed the boot order in BIOS to CD, USB, HDD. Inserted Ubunto 12.04 disk, launched Ubuntu. Chose "Install alongside windows 7". Successfully installed Ubuntu, restarted, and it goes straight to Ubuntu.

[ubuntu] Grub windows error 6 weeks 4 days ago

Hello, I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 and I can't get back into windows (no such device / file not found when trying to load windows boot loader from grub)

I have an SSD(sdb) and 2 TB HDD(sda).