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    Red face Windows 8 not booting after installing ubuntu 12.04

    I have installed Ubuntu after installing windows 8.Now I can not boot into windows8.
    how to do.I have searched all over forum.but nothing find helpful to fix that problem.I don't want to loose GRUB .How to make grub to boot windows8..My windows 8 is installed into logical drive and ubuntu is in primary drive.


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    Re: Windows 8 not booting after installing ubuntu 12.04

    You can fix your problem just by installing Boot-Repair and run it.

    First open a terminal window and type:
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    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair && sudo apt-get update
    Hit Enter and then type:
    Code:
    sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair
    Hit Enter again and run the program.

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    Re: Windows 8 not booting after installing ubuntu 12.04

    Unwanted post
    Last edited by 681ankit; December 4th, 2012 at 12:35 PM. Reason: duplicate post

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    Re: Windows 8 not booting after installing ubuntu 12.04

    Quote Originally Posted by slickymaster View Post
    You can fix your problem just by installing Boot-Repair and run it.............
    First of all thank you very much for the reply.
    Boot Repair adds new entry "WINDOWS" in boot menu ..
    But when I click it..I get the following error..

    error:no such device: /EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgew.ef
    error:file not found

    press any key to continue

    My windows 8 is on: dev/sda5


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    Re: Windows 8 not booting after installing ubuntu 12.04

    You seem to have win8 installed in uefi mode.

    Did you install ubuntu in uefi mode too, or in legacy bios mode?
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    Re: Windows 8 not booting after installing ubuntu 12.04

    From Boot-Repair post the link it creates when you run BootInfo.

    If you installed Windows 8 in sda5 in MBR it will not work unless you have another install of Windows in a primary partition. Or did you and then delete it (and Windows 8's boot files)? Windows only boots from a primary partition, NTFS format with boot flag. Grub does not need boot flag, but Windows boot files are all in that primary partition.
    UEFI boot install & repair info - Regularly Updated :
    https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2147295
    Please use Thread Tools above first post to change to [Solved] when/if answered completely.

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    Arrow Re: Windows 8 not booting after installing ubuntu 12.04

    Hello

    Quote Originally Posted by 681ankit View Post
    First of all thank you very much for the reply.
    Boot Repair adds new entry "WINDOWS" in boot menu ..
    But when I click it..I get the following error..

    error:no such device: /EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgew.ef
    error:file not found

    press any key to continue
    I'm sorry there was a bug in the Boot-Repair version you used.
    Please :
    1) wait that all packages have a green check in this page: https://launchpad.net/~yannubuntu/+a...pair/+packages
    2) then update and retry Boot-Repair

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    Quote Originally Posted by slickymaster View Post
    You can fix your problem just by installing Boot-Repair and run it.

    First open a terminal window and type:
    Code:
    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair && sudo apt-get update
    Hit Enter and then type:
    Code:
    sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair
    Hit Enter again and run the program.
    >>This post fixed my problems hallelujah!
    ~Conradin~

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    Re: Windows 8 not booting after installing ubuntu 12.04

    Hello

    this fix did nt work for me

    is there another ?

    thank you !

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    Re: Windows 8 not booting after installing ubuntu 12.04

    Quote Originally Posted by guy1a View Post
    Hello

    this fix did nt work for me

    is there another ?

    thank you !
    Did you install ubuntu in uefi mode if your win8 is also in uefi mode?

    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI
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