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The problem you are facing probably isn't the lengh of the name, but the presence of colon : which isn't accepted by the filesystem most Windows use, i. e., NTFS.
See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS
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Your windows partition is hibernated. If you have fastboot enabled disable it as it hibernates every time you shut down. In my opinion it is better to disable hibernation completely so that you never encounter this issue.
Forewarning: Disabling fastboot will cause your windows to boot significantly slower. Disabling Hibernation will cause it to boot a ...
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The Ubuntu community wiki has a page detailing how to install Ubuntu on a (U)EFI machine:
UEFI - Community Ubuntu Documentation
As far as your Secure Boot issue is concerned, check your SETUP feature in the UEFI. Ubuntu 13.04 should support Secure Boot, but at its current stage, there may be bugs. If Ubuntu doesn't boot with Secure Boot, you may wish to ...
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First, I'd like to know where the "Windows 8 Installation Media" is. If its a separate DVD you are golden. If it's on a "Recovery Partition" it's going to be harder.
The problem is that Windows 8 installs to the Hardware. It ONLY has drivers for the exact hardware it's on. If you were to try to migrate the partition into a Virtual Disk Image, it would ...
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You can just hope that you've messed up only your boot partition.
I see two solutions here:
a) @Hrishi's idea is right so try that and if you are so lucky that your files are still sitting there further information are needed to understand how we can restore Windows boot loader or Grub to get your pc up and running again.
b) If you want it fast and easy ...
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UEFI is a BIOS-replacement (to be short); so no you can't remove UEFI.
What you can do is switch the secure boot option off in UEFI ; this will be enough for having Ubuntu after all on your system.
There is no need to switch to a Windows 7, it will lead you to illegal actions and why should you? W8 provides all you need from Windows (this is not sarcastic ...
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As Joris said,turn of "Secure Boot" and install 12.04.2 or newer version. Remember to use 64-bit version :)
Have installed Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit dualboot with Win8 myself..
Read here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI
Its not recommended to install with WUBI..
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Such an update should pose no more of a problem than on an earlier computer or earlier updates (say, 11.04 to 11.10 on a BIOS-based computer). Of course, should doesn't always pan out in the real world.
In theory, you should (there's that word again) have been able to install Ubuntu 13.04 with Secure Boot enabled; since version 12.10 (including 12.04.2, but ...
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I would suggest trying to repair GRUB. The easiest way to do that is probably to use Boot Repair application.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install boot-repair
After installation launch it using Bash and try default repair. If it will not help You can try advanced options.
And if anything goes wrong ...
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I had issues with BIOS-set SecureBoot disallowing entry into my Windows 8 partitions - but, it appears that I've been able to reenable it now after getting GRUB finalized and Ubuntu/Windows setup the way I like.
Some appear to point to SecureBoot being problematic, depending on its original setting upon installation of Ubuntu to start with, see these links:
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are you trying to install Ubuntu via wubi, so inside windows? than I have bad news for you, it will probably not work in windows 8 (check the answer to this question). try booting from a live cd/dvd, create a separate partition for Ubuntu and install it there. here is more info about installing Ubuntu on a machine with UEFI (which is probably the case with a ...
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I had this same issue, the problem was that when my PC booted, it was booting straight into UEFI boot-loader without an Ubuntu option rather than Grub2.
I tried two possible solutions:
The first was to follow the instructions at the end of this page on adding Ubuntu as an option to the boot-loader, the part about EasyBCD is the one I'm talking about. ...
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This guide should be helpfull:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI
have you tried the boot menu?
32bit will not boot with 'secure boot' enabled in the bios, if a system has a windows 8 sticker it has the option and is enabled
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@Karen: Martin has asked for Windows 8. The link you have provided is for Windows 7. This makes a lot of difference since Windows 8 runs on UEFI with Secure Boot (and not with a BIOS)
@Martin: I am trying the same thing as you...
My experience so far with Virtual Box 4.2.10:
Secure Boot:
Your host system (ubuntu) needs to run with Secure Boot "disabled". ...
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use GParted on ubunte like got to change the formate but do not formate it then got to recover disk that work for me but you will need 2 hard drive the one you want the stuff off and one to copy the stuff on cus i did the with my 3tb can got all my stuff back that should work but do not format it just keep it up in the back screen the just recover it
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It's usually possible to disable Secure Boot without disabling EFI support; however, the user interfaces in EFIs vary greatly from one system to another, so I can't provide step-by-step instructions for doing this. I recommend you peruse your firmware settings to find the relevant options and play with them.
Also, it was my understanding that 12.04.2 did ...
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I'm running this laptop with Ubuntu GNOME 13.04.
The first step is to disable SSD as a cache from Windows, using Intel Matrix Storage software. Yes, it can't be done through the firmware. Without that, you won't be able to use more than 8GB on the SSD.
If you want to boot automatically in UEFI, you need to disable Legacy. Currently, Linux is hitting bug ...
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You should have this directory already created and it should have proper permissions.
1.mkdir -p /media/F866CF6F66CF2CE6
and then do
2.sudo mount -t ntfs-3g -o remove_hiberfile,uid=<your uid>,gid=<Your gid> /dev/sda3 /media/F866CF6F66CF2CE6
You can get your user id and group id from /etc/passwd file. This is how my user's entry looks like in ...
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