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hi everyone...i've installed ubuntu through pen drive boot in a seperate partition.... after completion of installation i've lost my win 8....
some pls hrlp me guys
The output of the command sudo fdisk -l (lower case L) might help to determine if you have wiped Windows or not.
Code:
wim@i3-2120:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for wim:
Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd2efff31
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 206847 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 206848 511999999 255896576 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 512000000 528001023 8000512 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4 528003070 1953523711 712760321 5 Extended
Partition 4 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sda5 528003072 820969471 146483200 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 820971520 1953523711 566276096 83 Linux
Command above in bold red. Your output (the rest of the above) will more than likely differ; but you should see one or more partitions with 'HPFS/NTFS/exFAT' at the end (like the first two in my example).
M$ insist on a particular implementation of UEFI which effectively makes dual boot impossible.
GPT disk - secure boot & windows 8 with everything signed by m$
MBR disk & secure boot off - linux will boot
On the contrary, I have a Dell Inspiron 15R happily dual-booting Windows 8 and Arch. I just disabled Secure Boot in the BIOS (not an option for everyone, but it works fine on this laptop).
Though I agree, Windows 8 isn't great - though I'll probably warm to it in time (everyone's always very critical of new Windows releases while they get accustomed to it) it seems they've thrown out a lot of the genuinely good features of Windows 7 in favour of a new, seemingly broken UI.
@Snark1994: I'd be very interested in a step by step on how you succeeded, where many others have made a worthy attempt and failed. If the Dell Inspiron truly does dual boot with windows 8, I'm sure m$ will have them fix it after the next BIOS release!
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