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Installed Operating System

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)

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

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:

To be completed