killernerd
Limp Gawd
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Normally this is pretty easy but not in this case...
So my main OS is windows 7 professional, when windows 8 came out i freed up some hard drive space (about 50 gb since i wasn't really going to do much with it initially) and installed it in a dual boot setup. I was just going to screw around with it since i got it for free (gotta love dreamspark premium ).
My laptop started using the seeing windows 8 as my primary OS for some reason (even though win 7 was installed first). It didn't really bother me though since the win 8 bootloader looked pretty and worked well.
Didn't really like win8 and none of my drivers worked anyway so i set my default OS back to win 7 and kinda forgot it was there. My laptop also started using the win 7 bootloader again, which was a shame because it offers far less functionality but w/e.
Now I have to install ubuntu for some projects and I thought: perfect, I can simply use the partition used by windows 8!
So i load up ubuntu through my usb and start the installer but when i come to the partition selection screen it gives me 3 options:
1. install alongside windows 8 (why it only detects windows 8 I don't know...)
2. remove windows 8 and install ubuntu (would wipe entire disk, including the windows 7 partition)
3. do the complicated stuff yourself and create your own partitions.
I don't really want to screw around with the partitions yourself so I restart the laptop and go back in windows 7. I open up the disk manager tool and remove the windows 8 partition so it's now unallocated disk space.
That should force ubuntu into detecting windows 7 I thought. I was wrong.
It gave me the exact same options as before so now i select "install alongside windows 8" which it did.
Reboot laptop after installation and... nothing. No bootloader or anything, it simply boots into windows 7 as if nothing happened. Which makes sense i suppose. Win8 is no longer installed and my system didn't use the win8 bootloader in the first place.
I have no clue how to fix this, which is why I'm here. I removed the ubuntu partition again (so it's unallocated disk space once more) so I can do it decently in one go.
thanks :3
So my main OS is windows 7 professional, when windows 8 came out i freed up some hard drive space (about 50 gb since i wasn't really going to do much with it initially) and installed it in a dual boot setup. I was just going to screw around with it since i got it for free (gotta love dreamspark premium ).
My laptop started using the seeing windows 8 as my primary OS for some reason (even though win 7 was installed first). It didn't really bother me though since the win 8 bootloader looked pretty and worked well.
Didn't really like win8 and none of my drivers worked anyway so i set my default OS back to win 7 and kinda forgot it was there. My laptop also started using the win 7 bootloader again, which was a shame because it offers far less functionality but w/e.
Now I have to install ubuntu for some projects and I thought: perfect, I can simply use the partition used by windows 8!
So i load up ubuntu through my usb and start the installer but when i come to the partition selection screen it gives me 3 options:
1. install alongside windows 8 (why it only detects windows 8 I don't know...)
2. remove windows 8 and install ubuntu (would wipe entire disk, including the windows 7 partition)
3. do the complicated stuff yourself and create your own partitions.
I don't really want to screw around with the partitions yourself so I restart the laptop and go back in windows 7. I open up the disk manager tool and remove the windows 8 partition so it's now unallocated disk space.
That should force ubuntu into detecting windows 7 I thought. I was wrong.
It gave me the exact same options as before so now i select "install alongside windows 8" which it did.
Reboot laptop after installation and... nothing. No bootloader or anything, it simply boots into windows 7 as if nothing happened. Which makes sense i suppose. Win8 is no longer installed and my system didn't use the win8 bootloader in the first place.
I have no clue how to fix this, which is why I'm here. I removed the ubuntu partition again (so it's unallocated disk space once more) so I can do it decently in one go.
thanks :3