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Installed Operating System

Current OS Log

• Windows
  • Configuration files
• Ubuntu
  • Configuration files

System

Hardware

ASUS N550JV-CM202H

• Bought in 2013 &dmash; See New PC - 2013 for selection page
• Default OS: Win 8 64
• CPU: i7-4700HQ
  • Micro-architecture: Haswell (wikipedia page)
• RAM: 8GB
• GPU: Nvidia GeForce GT 750M 4GB

References

• Install Ubuntu alongside Windows 8: Detailed blog entry, detailed answer on askubuntu.
  Suggestions:
  • Turn off fast startup
    If fast startup is turned on, Windows keeps a snapshot of the system when it boots up, which gets corrupted or lost when installing Ubuntu
    Option is available via Control Panel → Power Options → Choose what the power button does → click on "Change settings that are currently unavailable" !
  • Disable secure boot
    Although Ubuntu is compatible with secure boot, secure boot is still the part that creates most dual boot issues.
  • Disable UEFI Boot
    Also called enable CSM boot (CSM means Compatibility Support Module). This restores the old usual boots, but requires GRUB to boot Windows 8
    Q? Will recovery via F9 continue to work?
• Info on UEFI
• Access to BIOS might be disabled if PC boots Windows 8 in Secure Boot mode.
  To access BIOS, go to Windows 8 power off options, and click Restart while holding SHIFT. Then, select Troubleshoot, and UEFI Firmware Settings.

• ASUS Recovery — press F9 at boot to go to recovery console, and restore from RECOVERY partition.
  If the image is not found, start a command prompt:

MountVol
G:
cd RecoveryImage
Dism /Apply-Image /ImageFile:install.wim /Index:2 /ApplyDir:D:

• ASUS Recovery - via Windows
• Asus support - N50JV - Download
• Press ESC just after power on to access the boot order and setup menu (even if secure and/or fast boot is enabled)

Log

• Boot in Windows 8, let update runs, etc.
• In BIOS, disable fast boot and secure boot, and enable CSM boot
• In Windows 8, disable fast startup
• In Windows 8, Shrink C: to 188GB, and delete / create new D: 184GB right after C: (this leaves ~500GB for Linux)
• Boot USB with Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit
• Install Ubuntu, and run boot-repair
• Flash BIOS to v207 (was 204)
• Backup Restore partition (/dev/sda6) with ntfsclone
• Backup Recovery partition (/dev/sda2) with ntfsclone
• Backup Efi partition (/dev/sda1) with partimage
• Backup GPT table (with gdisk and dd of 4096 sectors)

To be completed

Partition

Device	Label	Size	Type	Mount	uid	gid	permissions
/dev/sda1/	OS	xx.xxGiB	ntfs	/windows/c	?	?	drwxrwx---
/dev/sda2/	SWAP	xx.xxGiB	linux-swap	swap	?	?
/dev/sda3/	UBUNTU	xx.xxGiB	reiserfs	/	?	?	drwxr.xr.x

Total disk size: 931.39GB. Original partition, from Windows 8:

• 300MB — EFI System Partition
• 900MB — Recovery Partition
• 372.60GB — OS (ntfs)
• 537.60GB — DATA (ntfs)
• 20.01GB — Recovery Partition