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I had windows 8.1 installed with ubuntu 14.04.3 on another partition. I booted from a USB and ran the installation with ubuntu 14.04.1. When doing the installation it detected that I already had 14.04.3 installed and it asked me whether I would like to replace that with 14.04.1. I said yes and ran the installation thinking it would just clean and downgrade my ubuntu version.

When I restart it no longer boots into UEFI menu (which I have selected) and when I press F12 and try and run windows boot loader it still boots into ubuntu. Did I delete my windows partition? I unfortunately didn't back it up. If I did delete it, is there anyway to recover it?

Thanks

wprins
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No, your Windows partition is still there. There is a glitch in Ubuntu that happens sometimes and it occurs after Ubuntu install, for some reason it does not send you to the grub menu to decide if you want to boot Ubuntu or Windows.

Here's the fix for this problem:

Shut down your computer. (If it's already on, if it is off, just go ahead and turn on your computer).

Turn on your computer.

Next, hold the shift key at boot.

Then, you will see the grub menu. Windows should be one of the options on the grub menu. Select Windows, and then you are good to go. Screenshot:enter image description here

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When I look under the size of my device it says the total capacity is 967 GB is the Filesystem type is ext3/ext4. Because my harddrive is 1TB this to me seems as if the windows partition has been overwritten and added to this ubuntu partition.

Oops, that seems as if Windows partition was indeed overwritten. Check partition layout in gparted or gnome-disks prior to making any final conclusions.

And as a rule of thumb, NEVER trust ANY installer with your data. Make partition layout using partitioning program from live disk (gparted works perfectly for me and comes with most Ubuntu distributions) and install operating system(s) on their designated partitions.

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