[ubuntu-uk] Dual booting Windows 8.1 woth Ubuntu 13.10

[Dave Morley]

On 06/11/13 12:16, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> On 06/11/2013 12:10, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 6 November 2013 11:53, Gordon Burgess-Parker
>> <gbplinux at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi! Having problems with this. Machine is Lenovo U410 with UEFI
>>> and Intel Rapid Start. Installing 13.04 works fine - sees the
>>> Windows OS as per normal and allows installing into the prepared
>>> free space. If I try to install 13.10, it doesn't detect Windows
>>> 8.1 at all. I'm reluctant to proceed manually as I'm not sure
>>> what will happen because of this "non-detection". Has anyone
>>> experienced this, and is there a way round?
> 
>> Are you trying the 64 bit version of 13.10?  If not then try that.
>> If it worked with 13.04 (which I guess was 64 bit) then 13.10
>> should be ok.  Of course you could just upgrade your 13.04 to 13.10
>> rather than re-install.
> 
>> Colin
> 
> 
> Yes I am using the 64 bit version - it's only the 64 bit versions that
> have support for UEFI as far as I know.
> I thought about upgrading from 13.04, but was interested as to why
> 13.10 doesn't detect the Windows OS....
> 
> Gordon
>

Gordon does it detect the Ubuntu partition?

If so I would image that the Ubuntu side of things is only going to be
installed against that part.

However you could do better diagnosis by logging into the live desktop
session and see for example what drives are visible from 13.10 etc :)


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