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I have been working with Ubuntu 13 about a year and I have dual boot with windows 8.

Then a message appeared that Ubuntu needs updates and I accepted the updates and started updating.

After finishing and restarting ubuntu the machine started making load noise and after restarting more than one time the machine is working windows 8 only and Ubuntu disappeared from the booting list completely hope to rescue my files and programs installed because they are important to me.

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For recover your files or try to fix the system I recommend same thing, use a LiveCD or LiveUSB with Ubuntu.

If you don't have a CD/USB with Ubuntu here you can follow a tutorial about getting one USB Live on Windows.

Once you have a CD/DVD with Ubuntu just boot from CD/USB and hit on "Try Ubuntu..." and wait until Ubuntu loads.

To recover Ubuntu installation

You can try some things like fix/reinstall the ubuntu grub with:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair

You can follow this tutorial Ubuntu Boot-Repair

To recover your files

Just look for the internal hard disk and mount it, then copy the files you want to save to external device/cloud or where you want. Once you've saved all the data can reformat PC or delete linux partition.

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