So, my harddrive recently went bust under warranty. As such, Dell shipped me a replacement. And a USB stick containing a full windows 8 installation and repair media. In the land of OEM installs and roms, that thing is a s good as gold. All the fun began when I decided to make a second partition to install Ubuntu on. Also, keep in mind that in order to boot the USB, I had to disable Secure boot, and run it in legacy mode (an option for my computer). Contrary to what I've read on this forum, it can boot win8 without UEFI no problem. The issue was when I installed Ubuntu 14.02 off of a live USB. At first it couldn't install grub properly, then after 3 install attempts it did so successfully but fried my windows boot loader. Using the windows repair tools I managed to get the boot loader working again, but now it ignored ubuntu. I used the live USB to switch the primary boot drive to the one containing GRUB, and updated GRUB so that it could find the windows 8 boot loader image. However, apon loading the win8 image though GRUB, I get a blank bergandy screen and have to force reboot.
My computer can't seem to run both Windows and Ubuntu, and I can't run UEFI because we'll, it literally doesn't exist on my computer anymore. Also, contrary to what I've read on the forum my PC can run 32 bit versions of ubuntu, even as a 64 bit machine. I have a 32 bit 12.04 boot disk that work perfectly fine. Infact, that. Disk. Seems to have been the only way to fix the boot partition problem I had earlier.
Currently, i've gon over with a fresh install of windows, there is still a dormant Ubuntu, swap, and win8 loader partitions.
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