Ubuntu 16.04 and Win 8 can't dual booting

[Manolis L.]

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.


      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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