I installed windows8.1 on my new laptop after that i installed ubuntu12.04 as dual OS . now i am able to use only ubuntu, windows is not booting. how can i get my windows back to use as dual OS. Both the OS installations are in legacy mode
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Do you see the grub menu? – Faizan Akram Dar Mar 04 '15 at 05:00
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dos and ubuntu are there – mahesh babu Mar 04 '15 at 05:11
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i have posted an answer, follow those steps and see if it works – Faizan Akram Dar Mar 04 '15 at 05:14
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Try this solution, http://askubuntu.com/a/676106/452738 – John Strood May 20 '16 at 17:07
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Follow these steps from Ubuntu :
Open terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T Or Search
Terminalin Dash.Enter the following command in Terminal :
sudo gedit /etc/default/grub(This will open grub configuration file in
gedit.)Edit the file and change following options as following (remove comments # before any of below lines) and save the file :
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=false
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10Run the following command in new instance of terminal :
sudo update-grubRestart your computer, you should be now able to boot Windows if you did partition your system correct
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