Ubuntu installation wont recognize pre-installed windows 8

**nick98** · April 16th, 2014

Well, i hate windows 8. So i have been trying out Ubuntu 13.10 on my system and want to fully install it, but i want to dual boot. When i get to the screen that lets you choose it says it didnt detect any other operating systems but i clearly have WIN8. I dont know how to fix this, im very new to changing OS's and stuff so any help on how to get it to dual boot would be awesome.Thanks

SPECS: Toshiba sattelite c55-a5204

I dont know anything about the hard drive other than its 500GB
8GB RAM
Intel core I3
INTEL HD 4000

**carl4926** · April 16th, 2014

I shouldn't worry too much about that.
But please check this
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI

Personally I prefer to do clean installations so I can get all the partitioning nice and orderly.But most people are stuck with OEM windows installs and no install DVD for windows

**westie457** · April 16th, 2014

As well as the info that carl4926 has mentioned follow the advice in the links in this post http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...4#post12986474

**nick98** · April 16th, 2014

That doesnt help. I honestly dont know what your talking about. Dont know how to mess with partitions and dont know about any of these modes. Maybe installing ubuntu 12.04 would help?

**monkeybrain20122** · April 16th, 2014

Well if you hate Windows 8 then why dual boot? Dual booting makes life complicated because of the secure boot, uefi fisaco. With 8 G of ram you can easily install Windows in Virtualbox if you don't need Windows for games.