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I'm an absolute Linux newbie, I've never used it before.
I've just installed Ubuntu 14.04 on the same hard drive with Windows 8.1. When I choose a Windows 8 Loader in the Grub Loader screen, nothing happens.

When I tried to fix Boot Loader using Boot-Repair utility, nothing changed:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
sudo sh -c "sed -i 's/trusty/saucy/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yannubuntu-boot-repair-trusty.list"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair

I also used Boot-Repair utility to generate a paste from Boot-repair.

I tried using sudo update-grub, offered by the_Seppi. The things changed a bit. Now, when choosing Windows 8 Loader in the Grub menu, I see a blank black screen, but Windows itself is not loading.

What should I do?

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If you have a laptop and your Windows is preintalled, you need to enable in bios "UEFI Boot". All the good!

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I can see that you don't have an UEFI boot partition, but I don't like the "unknown" partition, so the easiest thing to do for you now is:

  1. Boot an Ubuntu LiveDVD
  2. Make a full system backup and a data backup!
  3. re-install Windows using 2 drives: a 64 GB System drive and a ensuring it only takes maximum 180 GB Data drive
  4. Re-install Ubuntu and create a 32 GB /, swap equal to your RAM and /home partition of everything else minus 8GB under EXT4 and an 8 GB FAT partition to exchange data between Ubuntu and Windows
  5. if all works, restore the data (Documents, Pictures, ...). Don't restore the configuration settings to have a clean system! ;-)

Alternatively, you could create a more advanced partitioning scheme

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This tutorial article helped me to install Ubuntu 16.04 + Windows 10 on one drive on my old laptop (Sony Vaio VGN-FW21MR) mentioned above.

Link to article: http://www.tecmint.com/install-ubuntu-16-04-alongside-with-windows-10-or-8-in-dual-boot/

Issue resolved.

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