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Installation from Live USB doesn't find my partitions

I have a Sony Win8 ultrabook. When I boot from a live USB, Ubuntu 12.10 will access my partial SSD to access data. But when I go to install it, it gets to the point of changing partitions, but shows ...
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answered Windows 8/Ubuntu 12.04 dual boot

I've had trouble with installing on an external hard drive like I planned to, so I've decided it would be better just to set up a dual boot on my system. I've been searching to make sure I do it ...
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Windows 8 and Ubuntu dual boot using wubi [duplicate]

I set up a partition for Ubuntu 12.10 and used Wubi to install it. It installed fine, but when I try to boot into Ubuntu It tells me The application or operating system couldn't be loaded because a ...
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Bought a new laptop with Windows 8 preinstalled, now I can't uninstall it [closed]

I recently bought a new laptop with Windows 8 installed. I am not a fan of this OS, so I wanted to reboot to Win7. After a series of tries, I couldn't get Windows 7 to install. I boiled it down to ...
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Error PXE-e61 after instaling Ubuntu 12.04(x64) in a pre installed Windows 8 Machine

AFter following the steps that are presented here(Installing Ubuntu on a Pre-Installed UEFI Supported Windows 8 system), I could not boot the pc, even back to windows 8. I partitioned the Hard Drive, ...
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install ubuntu on dell xps 8500 with preinstalled windows 8

I got a Dell xps 8500 pre-installed window 8. I installed ubuntu 12.10 and after reboot the system directly enter into ubuntu. I use boot-repair and I got the grub menu with ubuntu and windows 8. If I ...
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Dual Booting Pre-installed Windows 8

I've recently purchased a Lenovo T430, and sadly when configuring it, I forgot all about the Linux UEFI Fiasco, and kept the default option of pre-installing Windows 8. I'm able to disable ...
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Dual-boot Ubuntu 12.10 on UEFI along Windows 8

Hello after a successfull installation of Ubuntu 12.10 amd64, I am now unable to boot Windows 8. Here are my actions: Made room (15 GB) for Ubuntu from Windows 8 Computer Managment Boot Ubuntu ...
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Dual boot Ubuntu and Windows 8 on HP p7-1449 [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Installing Ubuntu on a Pre-Installed Windows 8 system So I recently bought a HP p7-1449 with Windows 8 pre-installed. I want to dual boot the system with Ubuntu 12.10 ...
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Installing Ubuntu on a Pre-Installed UEFI Supported Windows 8 system

I bought a computer with pre-installed Windows 8. But I didn't like Windows 8, so i decided to install Ubuntu as a second operating system. I'm absolutely new to Linux. I have been using Windows for ...
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Installing Ubuntu 12.10 on new computer with Windows 8 [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Installing Ubuntu on a Pre-Installed UEFI Supported Windows 8 system I recently purchased a new HP computer (P6-2330) with Windows 8. I have tried unsuccessfully to ...
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Cannot boot WUBI installed Ubuntu with Windows 8 [duplicate]

I installed Ubuntu on Samsung laptop with Windows 8, everything went fine but on booting with Ubuntu I get the following message: \ubuntu\winboot\wubildr.mbr status 0xc000007b The application or ...
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Wubi on Windows 8 without secure boot?

I have a MacBook Pro. I've heard rumours that if Windows 8 is going to have this thing called "Secure boot", Wubi cannot work. At first I plan to install Ubuntu on my mac via Wubi(and windows via ...