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I am having problems getting grub to load Windows 8 properly after installing Ubuntu 12.10 and Windows 8 on a solid state drive. Here's what I did:

  1. Fresh install of Windows 8 using USB recovery drive (partitioned SSD for UEFI) -- Tested windows install and it worked fine
  2. Built bootable USB with Ubuntu 12.10 64bit and installed Ubuntu -- Used Ubuntu's installer to partition the Windows 8 partition and install there
  3. Reboot - try to load windows 8 from grub -- Ubuntu loads correctly; windows load reports various problems with permissions and not being able to find files - I'll update what the actual errors are
  4. Tried to fix the boot problem using boot-repair: -- here's the output: http://paste.ubuntu.com/1384522/

So, this is my first time trying to setup a dual boot system and I think that UEFI is the main culprit in getting this to work correctly. What do I need to

kingtri
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  1. Use a Windows disc this way: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestoreUbuntu/XP/Vista/7Bootloader , until you get access to Windows
  2. If the GRUB menu has disappeared, you can recover it via Boot-Repair
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This problem is identical to this one, aside from some minor differences in partitioning. (Your EFI System Partition, or ESP, is on /dev/sda2, vs. /dev/sda7 for the posted-to question, which affects the partition number in the GRUB 40_custom entry.)

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