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Installed Operating System

Current OS Log

• Windows
  • Configuration files
• (DISTRIBUTION_NAME)
  • Configuration files

System

Hardware

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Log

• 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

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

1st Install

To be completed