My dualboot windows 8. Asked 6 years, 7 months ago. Active 6 years, 7 months ago. Viewed 10k times. Here is my boot info. If you can help me it would be so great! Improve this question. DaschPyth DaschPyth 1 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges.
Well I too have faced this problem on my Lenovo g windows 8. But fortunately, this problem has already been faced by lot of other users. Therefore after doing some googling about this, I have managed to fix this.
Hope that following references will help you. There is a very detailed answer at askubuntu. I followed all this tutorials, and I didn't figured out how to do it. I did booting in uefi, fastboot deactivaiton, secureboot disable, enabled CRM qnd activate after installing. It's just not the solution for my problem. I don't know why. Show 1 more comment. Active Oldest Votes. If that doesn't help, try with the utility tool boot-repair from a LiveUSB.
For my problem in particular, after using boot-repair, my win8 didn't appear afterwards in GRUB, so I also did a sudo update-grub. Improve this answer. Silviu Silviu 1 1 silver badge 13 13 bronze badges. This I will try, I did not try : thx : — DaschPyth. DaschPyth Did you fix it? It worked for a period, but then I upgraded to Win10 and I broke things again. Add a comment.
That might do it. I did deactivate fast boot and secure boot — DaschPyth. I already did. I'm still block to install it. Biu Biu 1 1 silver badge 7 7 bronze badges. Awesome — glad to hear things are working …. Thanks for the tip! I am only able to boot from CSM — legacy mode and get Ubuntu options. Have no idea how to proceed. I see the windows partition is till there. Hi, I have ubuntu I want to repair windows 8. Can anybody let me known how can I do that without loosing my data and affecting ubuntu?
Your Windows will not work in case you switched to Legacy. I deleted Ubuntu It worked well til I screwed something up in installing backtrack. So it pissed me off so I went and followed a tut on how to delete it. I went and deleted the partition, followed all those steps, have only a usb with my Windows 8.
Since then. I am stuck and no matter what I do, any command, etc will not work. I boot it up, holding F12 and even just rebooting without pressing anything, and I get. Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists possible device or file completions. I researched and tried many different things people suggest and nothing works. Like I said I have windows on my usb the way they told me to create the recovery and I have no clue what to do to access the usb to redo my computer… Is there a simple code to type into grub?
I can not for the life of me get past this damn screen lol. Please help! I have not run into this issue and I do not have an Asus laptop either, so I did some searching, in the hopes that they are helpful to you.
Next thing you could try is to do a regular factory restore so the boot manager gets wiped, and after that restore your Windows from USB — this might be your best option. Hopefully this is the case for yours as well, and you might be able to boot from USB. Here you can also find some other methods. I got lucky.. Found out that Ubuntu made its way to be the first thing on the Boot list. But I got lucky, changed the boot sequence and deleted the Ubuntu options. I see why nothing worked now. Everything is good now and computer is back to normal, and I re-partitioned my HD so all is good.
Except for my Nvidia Geforce graphics card. I love that card. But thank you for your help! Take care! I was wondering if this process mentioned here will work in my laptop for setting up a dual boot system with Windows 8. Can I still make it to dual boot? I have not tried this, but I would assume that the regular dual boot install for Ubuntu would work just fine. See the official Ubuntu Dual-boot guide. The Windows partition might not be visible in regular Ubuntu, but if you made space available, then during setup the disk manager app should see the Windows partition just fine.
I can totally relate to being nervous … I would be nervous too. Finally it is all done. I went forward with Something Else and created the partitions for Ubuntu and the rest of the installation process was smooth.
The problem appeared when I rebooted. It booted directly into Ubuntu. After some searching I stumbled upon the following post and it just fixed it :. Ubuntu Then after rebooting I was presented with the grub menu where I could choose to boot either Ubuntu or Windows. Great to hear it worked well for you too, even with Linux Mint! Thank you for taking the time to post feedback!
Thanks for the great article. It was very helpful. After doing everything it was still booting straight to Windows without showing any option during the boot. After some searching I found out that HP has this additional thing in their machines during the boot process.
A small annoyance but I can live with that. Thanks Asif for posting the HP tip! Thanks for the wonderful article. I tried installing ubuntu on my Acer laptop and made some mistakes, and unfortunately lost the entire OS. I would like to give it a shot again, but want to find out if it is possible to install the ubuntu on D since my PC has two drives.
I presume the windows is installed on C, while D is almost empty! Is it possible to install on D instead? Can I be certain to see the same option to partition the D drive as you explained? Yes, of course you can install Ubuntu on your second harddrive. Great tutorial, I am able to install successfully without any issue with Win 7. Just one thing, I got dual boot menu even without trying windows step.
Still I tired to run commond on Win 7 command prompt and got error following error, but thats not issue as I already got dual boot option on startup. Glad to hear your setup is working and thanks for posting your findings as well. Excellent article. One of the most detailed I have seen in implementation and explanation. I have done the dual boot on separate drives One worked well with Ubuntu and one was a disaster with Red Hat.
My question is the following. Is the Windows 8. If it is how would I see it in the Disk Manager? And would I go through the same procedure as you have outlined to install Ubuntu.
I have had limited to no luck finding the answers to these questions. The best answer I got so from Asus is there would be a C and D partition.
One last question would be if this is correct regarding C; and D: partitions why could I not install both operating systems on the SDD? Thanks for the compliment! I do not see why that would not work. The procedure would be the same, although I do not have experience with this particular computer. The 2nd drive should have no influence on that.
Just make sure you choose the right drive in the procedure. Also: before doing the procedure: make sure to have the recovery media nearby — just in case. Thanks again Hans for the quick reply. Couple more questions. And thank you again for your help and assistance. I actually enjoy helping out — wish I could make it my daytime job! In you case, I would just take about Gb or if you need lees; less than Gb for Ubuntu. This way Windows has space left — since it fills up pretty quick.
On your D-drive the 1Tb disk you could store data and if needed install your applications once your SSD gets too full. If click OK then operation aborted. This is one of the best guides to installing for dual boot.
Touches on actions often left out of other guides. The only thing I would add is that with GPT, you can ignore your memory of primary and extended partitions which is great. I very much appreciate the GPT tip and the compliment of course …. The data are very important please help me. These tools might work for you, unless the space the partition once used has been overwritten by another partition. I had a dual boot of pre-installed windows 8. After that pc boots directly to windows.
I want to dual boot again. After every installation attempt at the first restart grub is there,but if i choose windows from grub menu no more linux after that.
I tried boot repair from live cd with no result ,every boot repair returns an error url. Except that time i did it from linux but again at the next restart,when i went to windows no grub just windows as alawys. My system has uefi bios, secure boot is disabled, fast boot is enabled since at the first and sucessful installation everything was fine. All this make me think that a clean install of windows to remove every partition and OEM partition if possible is a solution.
So to the point now,do you think that it worths a try to use your instructions or will i get the same results? Sorry for writing so much but i want to give the whole problem,because i need a solution before total format.
See if you can achieve something by working with the boot order. I finally restored dual boot thanks to your instructions! I did the same till the point where you type the efi ubuntu boot in windows cmd.
The only difference at what i did is at the boot repair point. From the live cd i typed the following commands. I did that,because the last of your commands said boot-repair is not a package ,anyway something like that. Glad to hear it worked out for you, and thanks for posting how you did it — others might benefit from that as well …. Ok you said you did all the suggested steps.
Can you boot to Windows directly or from bios? Also write if possible the steps you did. Are you sure your boot is uefi and secure boot is disabled? Also check in your windows installation fastboot to be disabled. Hi, i am new to the Linux world and have been using numerous sites to install Ubuntu 14x alongside windows 8. Sorry I would really appreciate your help, thanks,. I found it at StackOverflow , so to help out, I copied it here, other solutions are discussed there as well, so the StackOverflow post might be a helpful read.
Before you make any changes to it, it may be a good idea to back it up by creating a copy:. This change will make it easier to change the default item later.
The configuration change we made allows the grub-set-default and grub-reboot commands to be used at any time. These allow you to change the default boot item permanently or only for the next boot, respectively.
Run grub-set-default or grub-reboot with sudo with the number of the menu item to boot the first item is 0. This command will change the default to the second item:. Thank you soooooo much for your reply, but i am a bit lost…. GRUB isnt working again, i turned on my computer on this morning and it defaulted straight to Windows. Just to make sure it even boots right, and to make sure things like Safe Boot are not still enabled. It is new laptop, so did not bother with Step 2 — that of […].
I have Dell Inspiron with Win 8. My E drive, which is a Primary partition, has GB and is empty. How do I install Ubuntu on this partition? Thank you so much for this detailed step by step procedure. I was able to boot into Ubuntu thanks to it!!!!
The guide is absolutely awesome!!!!! After this error nithing happen. Still i cant boot to ubuntu. Please help me. I rebooted too early as well, and then this tool will not work, so I had to boot from the USB stick again as well. Hi, egen ever I try to boot into Windows, it try to repair it self, but it fail to do so. What can I do, what have I done wrong? Hey even my computer has 3 recovery partitions and 1 partition for the C: drive. I never payed attention to a limitation of partitions, but it seems that older MBR setups indeed have a limitation of 4 primary partitions.
Newer GUID can handle up to primary partitions. I also read in that same article that both Windows and Linux can boot just fine from logical partitions as well. This means GRUB is not starting. Did you try the last comment, way at the bottom of the article, in the blue box? Hans, firstly thanks, great tutorial. Only windows or uBuntu to select from. In your situation you could try using the boot menu at start up. If you are not able to find the drive with the help of GRUB, you have to use the Linux kernel as explained in following sections.
The method described above constitutes the biggest security risk in Linux. Placing passwords or locking menu items in the GRUB configuration files does not prevent a user from booting manually using commands entered at the GRUB command-line. Once a foreign OS is booted, it can be used to access any part of an unencrypted hard drive. I was able to do it, finally. What I did, so others can do as well, if faced with the same situation, and will like to try another OS.
I reloaded the Kali Linux with Rufus 2. Before I was not, but selecting Rufus, recommended burn. Thanks Node for posting your solution!
Hans a quick question. I decide that I will like to load Kali-rolling Linux My HardDrive is partition as follows:. As far as I know, Grub should not have a problem with this. Sure can do will some help here. But when I try and install the three, is where I am having issues. It will not move after this.
Do not matter where I tell the bootloader to be installed. I have no issues getting back into Windows. Only when grub starts to run update I get stuck. Any help would be appreciated. Not sure if this is still valid though. When you try to install the 2nd Linux distro, can you avoid setting up Grub? Oops missed a link: Install Ubuntu without Grub.
Massive thank you; success!! I spent so many hours searching, trying this and that, and the answer was a few command away. That is it. And thank you so much for posting the fix! I know others will benefit from this as well …. Thanks for the compliment and thank you for taking the time to post! Thanks Man! This helped me very much.
And i was able to dual boot completely without using step 7 in my HP cctx. Thanks Muftau for posting that it worked for you as well! Much appreciated! But i select windows boot manager from grup windows not showing up, neither any message. Unless one of the other users has a helpful tip! Thank You for taking the time to write this.
I followed your method but I have gotten stuck at the Installation step and I was wondering if you could tell me what I have done wrong;. Maybe sda1 is the empty one 74Gb? Another issue could be that the partitions reside on an extended partition? Does the list show anything like size or sectors common: if size in sectors, then multiply those numbers by to get bytes? I have attached links to screenshots taken in both the above mentioned cases. Hope the data on it gives you some idea.
I think I see what your problem is: Your partitions disks are dynamic. Interesting that even Microsoft says source :. The downside is that you will have to delete all the dynamic partitions and effectively lose your data.
Not a fun! So if you are sure it will rectify the error I am willing to lose the data as will if there is no other gi. I can imagine that some of these tools may have a backup feature build in. Theoretically you should be done now. I got Ubuntu installed on my laptop but there is no dual boot functionality available. It just boots straight into Ubuntu. But the other volumes and the data from my drives are still there. You may want to repeat Step 7.
Hey hans, Do you recommend any way to switch my laptop from legacy to uefi? I currently have windows, ubuntu dual booting in legacy mode Bios with MBR hdd so I saw an easy with no data loss way to convert the hard drive to GPT hence I can make my system uefi? Is that right? I personally have never converted legacy to UEFI or vise versa. I did find this article which seems to do a good job at explaining how to do this.
Great to hear it worked out well! I recently tried your tutorial to dual boot ubuntu and windows 8. The vast majority of the tutorial went smoothly, but I got an error when attempting to do the boot repair and I was hoping you could guide me before I inevitably destroy my partitions. I have attached screenshots for reference purpose here. Once the installation is over, you will be presented with the option to keep trying live version or to restart the system.
On next boot, you will see the option of Ubuntu in the grub screen. I hope you found this guide to dual boot Ubuntu with Windows helpful. If you need, you can change the boot order easily to make Windows your default OS. Since you have just installed Ubuntu Also a movie buff with a soft corner for film noir. You can restart the Ubuntu install process. There is no mention of keeping partition Primary or logical. Secondly where to place boot loader?
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