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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:

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