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100% Newbie here. Sorry for all the dumbness.

So, I have an HP Pavilion Laptop 15 series. It have windows 8.1 pre-installed OS.I dual boot it with ubuntu 14.04. It was working fine. But then, I realised that i don't need windows no more. So, I deleted windows completely(and the recovery partition also) and installed ubuntu 14.04. I think it was my biggest mistake. As you know that I have dual booted before, so I have configurated BIOS settings like disabling secure boot and enabling boot from dvd. A blue screen from where I have booted ubuntu in my laptop(I was thinking that it belongs to my laptop. but, its not because after removing windows, that screen was also gone. I think that was made for recovery). But now many functions are not working correctly like wire-less card is not working. So now, I want to dual boot windows 8.1 and ubuntu 14.04. I know the fact that to dual boot, I need to install windows first and then I have to make partition for ubuntu and then ubuntu will be installed. I have an original iso image of windows 8.1 with key.I don't have recovery disc. I have made its bootable usb and dvd. But, when I try to install windows, It doesn't boot neither dvd nor usb. I can't install windows 8.1. What should i do now?

Thanks.

rohit15079
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  1. To boot from other devices than the main drive you need to go into your BIOS settings or call a menu at the computer start up and choose what device to boot from. If you know this and did this, then there must be something wrong with your DVD and USB stick.

  2. You may want to search for and check how to install Windows after Ubuntu. This will save you some time and work. You can resize the current partitions and make new ones from a live Ubuntu session.