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I'm a student who wants to get his feet wet in Linux so I thought I would try Ubuntu. I downloaded the 14.04.1 LTS from the Ubuntu site and created a USB stick with it. I also disabled fast boot in the Control Panel before attempting this.

My PC is a Lenovo y510p laptop that came preloaded with Windows 8.1. I also had both UEFI and SecureBoot enabled in the BIOS.

Also, I tried to run boot-repair to fix (from this thread) without success. Here is my most recent attempt http://paste2.org/a0AW7PDP

EDIT: After two days of trying different things to fix my boot I gave up and reinstalled Windows. Been meaning to do it anyways. Thank you ver much @LiveWireBT for your help on the issue. I certainly learned a lot from the experience!

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The best and safest way to fix it is to create a bootstick with Windows 8 installer, from which you can run Windows' boot fix.

Boot Repair sometimes does strange stuff, like replacing Windows' boot loader with GRUB2. As the GRUB EFI only loads the normal GRUB2, which is located on the stick, it won't work.

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