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After installing ubuntu 12.04.2, I can't load windows 8

I have a laptop with in-built windows 8. I installed Ubuntu 64 bit via the method shown on this Ubuntu page: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI After use boot-repair, in GRUB menu it shows ...
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Grub EFI entries and Boot-Repair

I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on a Dell laptop with OEM Windows 8 on it. At first, my Grub menu didn't show at all, so I changed the /etc/default/grub file commenting the line GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0. After ...
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Windows 8 won't boot via grub after intalling 12.10 with boot-repair

I hope someone here might be able to help me. I've just purchased a new Acer Aspire V3-771G laptop which came pre-installed with windows 8. I shrunk the main windows partition and installed ubuntu ...
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Boot-Repair stuck at “Reinstall GRUB”

I bought a new Sony Vaio E14P series laptop. It has pre-installed Windows 8, and I want to dual boot it with Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit. I have disabled secure boot and installed Ubuntu without any problem ...
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Win8 keeps trashing grub2 (12.10 secure remix) [closed]

So I have win8-64 and 12.10 secure remix 64 playing nice together on a new Asus G46vw. I can boot into either after doing a boot-repair/purge. All is wonderful. ...that is until windows - ever so ...
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windows 8 install got corrupted or sda1 got corrupted - installed ubuntu on sda1 also but boot-repair isnt letting me get to win8

Hey all I am a computer technician and last night while sleeping my kids spilled some drink near the computer and since then I got an error trying to login to Windows. So I made a liveUSB Ubuntu ...
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Preinstalled Windows 8 Not showing up on Grub 2, Ubuntu 12.10

http://paste.ubuntu.com/1522276/ Hi There, I've scoured everywhere & I'm still all very confused. Since I'm a total noob, I don't really want to touch too many files... I have an Acer M5 with ...
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Installed Ubuntu and now can't boot into Windows anymore

Okay, now I have a new problem... I installed Ubuntu on my new SSD today. But now Windows 8 doesn't show up in the boot loader anymore. I ran Boot Repair and it told me GPT detected. Please ...
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After installing Ubuntu I can't boot Windows 8 anymore

I just bought a new laptop (a lenovo ideapad Z500) and it came installed with Windows 8. I wanted to have Ubuntu on it too, therefore I resized the Win8 partition from the control panel and installed ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 - Windows 8 Dual Boot (Tried boot-repair) - Dual OS option not showing

As title says, this is my first time trying ubuntu. I have been trying since last week with continuous googling and searching, but still no luck. I had Win8 x64 installed before, then tried ...
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Dual Booting Windows 8 and Ubuntu 12.10 - thinkpad x230

I am having problems getting grub to load Windows 8 properly after installing Ubuntu 12.10 and Windows 8 on a solid state drive. Here's what I did: Fresh install of Windows 8 using USB recovery ...
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In trying to repair grub, I get an “Uncompression Error System Halted” notice

I had Ubuntu 12 .04 then installed windows. As usual, it wiped out my Ubuntu 12.04 grub. So I tried using a live CD to repair grub. However, the CD never really load and after eternity it gives me an ...