Ubuntu 16.04 and Win 8 can't dual booting

[J. L.]

On 30.10.2017 21:39, Manolis L. via ubuntu-users wrote:
> Xen, Ralf, J.L. thank you so much for your answers.For the moment I will try to start Win8 using the istall DVD.It's a shame for me but I miss Win8.

Absolutely no need to excuse for "missing" Win(8) except perhaps for the
8. Me i don't like tiles at all. ;-)

One more recommendation (for the future) after hopefully having Your
data / Windows recovered successfully:

If Windows is really necessary always start with a clean installation of
Windows as Windows is very "inflexible" and uncooperative regarding
other OSes.

Only thereafter You should install Your "other" OS, for example ?ubuntu
as Linux can be booted from nearly "everything" without any real problems.

Or even better try to use a virtualized Windows-installation on a clean
Linux-install as, in my opinion, only this way You can really
successfully make the transition from Windows to Linux. With a
dual-boot-system You most likely will stick to Your accustomed Windows
as standard OS although You would _like_ to use Linux. But You are just
too lazy to do a new boot or do not have the time ... ;-)

If You do it the virtualized way You will "force" Yourself to use and
learn Linux as standard OS allways and invoke Windows only when You
really really really ... need it ...

Jm2c! ;-)

And once more good luck to You and Your endeavours! :-)



> 
> 
>       From: Manolis L. via ubuntu-users <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>  To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> 
> Cc: Manolis L. <malog1 at yahoo.co.uk>
>  Sent: Monday, October 30, 2017 1:51 PM
>  Subject: Re: Ubuntu 16.04 and Win 8 can't dual booting
>    
> Hi
> Thanks Ralf. It is a relief to know that Windows partition is in place.For the moment let's forget about grub and grub menu and look for a simpler remedy.Is there any way using "external means" e.g. Ubuntu live CD to start the Windows OS ?
> Thanks again.
> 
> 
>       From: Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com>
>  To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com 
>  Sent: Monday, October 30, 2017 12:59 PM
>  Subject: Re: Ubuntu 16.04 and Win 8 can't dual booting
>   
> On Mon, 30 Oct 2017 09:45:59 +0000 (UTC), Manolis L. wrote:
>> Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
>> /dev/sda1 * 2048 148062594 148060547 70,6G 83 Linux
>> /dev/sda2 148064254 1465145343 1317081090 628G f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
>> /dev/sda5 148064256 1339246591 1191182336 568G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
>> /dev/sda6 1339248640 1465145343 125896704 60G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
>>
>> So the question is the following: According to this output is at the
>> disk a correct and usefull  win8 partition or not
> 
> Hi,
> 
> most likely you didn't lost Windows 8. You first could try to
> automatically generate the missing Windows chainload entry. This not
> necessarily is all you need to do, but it could be all that you have
> to do.
> 
> If you google for something like
> 
>   ubuntu windows missing in grub menu
> 
> the first hints recommend to run
> 
>   sudo update-grub
> 
> ;).
> 
> Regards,
> Ralf
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