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Well one slight issue, since I did a clean install I made the windows partition smaller as I rarely use it (Ubuntu is wayyyy better) I made the ubuntu partion larger.

When I copied the image to...

I did exactly that but instead of getting windows 8.1 I just went straight for the windows 10 instead :)
My windows didn't just activate the way it should've, contacted support and they gave me a...

Ok so I created a recovery usb and started the recovery (wiped the harf drive including existing partitions)
and man is it super slow, after 2 hours it got to 42% and then said there was an error...

Thanks for you response. I tried using clonezilla disk to disk with icsd option checked to bypass size checking and somehow it still checked the size and failed.

I think you gave me the best...

Ok I did the boot-repair method. It now loads and shows several grub entries. I can load up ubuntu and it works flawlessly. However there are several (r) different windows partions and none of them...

Hello everyone.
I have been trying to resolve this myself and since I haven't quite found joy yet I'm turning to the experts.

I recently bought a laptop with Windows 8.1 it came with a 1 TB hard...

UPDATE:
OK so after waiting for over an hour with the disk plugged in it finally showed up as sdb after running sudo fdisk -l. it did not show any partitions

I ran testdisk and it showed the HDD....

Hello,
So after searching the forum and the web for days I've finally resorted to asking for help.

I have (had) a Lenovo G50-45 Laptop with Windows 8.1. I successfully installed Ubuntu 14.04 on...