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    Can't Mount 2nd HDD in Mint

    So I turned off the feature in power setting in Windows, restarted, now I'm in Linux and I can see the drive. Thanks! I didn't know that about the newer windows.
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    Can't Mount 2nd HDD in Mint

    I'll give it a shot right now.
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    Can't Mount 2nd HDD in Mint

    here is the error is gives. What does this mean? I can open the drive in Windows, but not linux
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    Dual Boot Error - Windows 8 and Ubuntu

    So I installed a new copy of windows 8 from the recovery usb. It seemed to work but I couldn't activate windows! It turns out I think I installed Windows 8 and not Windows 8 Pro. I am downloading the pro ISO now, and will use the product key that the script below got me: Set WshShell =...
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    Dual Boot Error - Windows 8 and Ubuntu

    So I would definitely be interested in restoring the Windows bootoader on the surface pro. I use this for work, so I do need to have Windows running. Regarding the product key, the surface does have some info on the bottom side, but no product key.
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    Dual Boot Error - Windows 8 and Ubuntu

    Ok, SO.... I got busy and couldn't update but there is where I'm at. I left the surface pro at the office. I came home and tried to dual boot my PC, and now I think I know the correct way of fixing my surface back at the office with two caveats: 1. I'm going to try and repair my surface with a...
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    Dual Boot Error - Windows 8 and Ubuntu

    "Command line option --reinstall is not understood in combination with the other options"
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    Dual Boot Error - Windows 8 and Ubuntu

    Getting another error. When I tried just typing in terminal "boot-repair" it says: line 64 not found and line 66 not found
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    Dual Boot Error - Windows 8 and Ubuntu

    This is the error after trying boot-repair in Ubuntu
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    Dual Boot Error - Windows 8 and Ubuntu

    I also tried this from terminal in Ubuntu: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair && sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && (boot-repair &) but got an error also. I'll try again and post the error.
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    Dual Boot Error - Windows 8 and Ubuntu

    Yes it is.
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    Dual Boot Error - Windows 8 and Ubuntu

    I installed latest version of Ubuntu on my surface pro 3 running Windows 8. I am new to Linux so I. wanted to start learning a new OS. I followed instructions online, created the correct partitions, and Ubuntu was installed successfully. The problem is I can't load Windows 8 anymore. I am...
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