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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.
ASUS Recovery - via Windows

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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`

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 ** '''Disable UEFI Boot'''<br/>Also called '''enable CSM boot''' (CSM means Compatibility Support Module). This restores the old usual boots, but requires GRUB to boot Windows 8<br/>'''Q?''' Will recovery via {{kb|F9}} continue to work?
 * Info on [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI UEFI]
+* Access to BIOS might be disabled if PC boots Windows 8 in Secure Boot mode.<br/>To access BIOS, go to Windows 8 '''power off options''', and click '''Restart''' while holding '''SHIFT'''. Then, select '''Troubleshoot''', and '''UEFI Firmware Settings'''.
 * [http://support.asus.com/Troubleshooting/detail.aspx?SLanguage=en&m=N550JV&p=3&s=529&os=&hashedid=dad5aYI8mC6sfoNV&no=1775 ASUS Recovery] &mdash; press {{kb|F9}} at boot to go to recovery console, and restore from RECOVERY partition.
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 * [http://support.asus.com/Troubleshooting/detail.aspx?SLanguage=en&m=N550JV&p=3&s=529&os=&hashedid=dad5aYI8mC6sfoNV&no=1713 ASUS Recovery - via Windows]
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 === Partition ===