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I have come to know the fact that the only way to get into the bios is through windows 8 booted and accessing the advanced startup options... so i have a genuine question here..

what happens if someone's windows 8 partition gets corrupted? Then there is no way to access the bios options to set to boot from a usb drive for recovery??..

my question assumes that the recovery partition on new pcs arent able to recover the windows state..

The other way to say this question is that is it possible to have only ubuntu on this kind of a notebook?? and still have a way to go into the bios/uefi settings?

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I doubt that this is true and it's not got much to do with Ubuntu, What's the model of your computer? – Stephen Martin Dec 31 '12 at 11:13
i dont own such a pc.. i am planning to buy one asus zenbook u500.that has windows8 preinstalled.. and the question relates to ubuntu because i want to have ubuntu as the only OS on this machine. – ashishsony Dec 31 '12 at 11:17
99% of the question is about Windows so offtopic. – Rinzwind Dec 31 '12 at 11:32
okay... pls moderators shift this question to superuser.com. sorry – ashishsony Dec 31 '12 at 11:58

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You don't need windows installed to access the BIOS.

I downloaded the manual from here

I then went to the "BIOS" section and then the subsection "Accessing the BIOS"

Restart your Notebook PC then press f2 during POST

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