Dual Boot and Booting Issue

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I NEED help desperately.

Some time ago I dual booted my Satellite c55t-b5230 (windows 8.1 & Ubuntu 14.10). Everything worked awesome Grub menu was present for months until it disappeared. Due to that I said proly a fresh install will bring back grub menu. I attempted to install Mint 17.1 it only recognized Linux and not windows so installed thinking that mint would just install on the Ubuntu partition. After successful installation I rebooted. That is where I was presented with the dreaded message "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert proper boot media in drive and press a key" what is happening where did I go wrong?

user537772

Posted 2015-12-26T05:20:44.697

Reputation: 23

The crux is in "thinking that mint would just install on the Ubuntu partition". It's essential to know your current partition table. Burn a live cd (I'd recommend gparted livecd) and do a fdisk -l on a command line. – agtoever – 2015-12-26T21:52:30.580

Will o be able to recover my files – user537772 – 2015-12-26T22:20:25.817

I looked at my hard drive via gParted and I didn't see a partition for Windows... – user537772 – 2015-12-26T22:21:13.160

Obviously I'm a noobie I wanted to try linux – user537772 – 2015-12-26T22:22:14.663

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I don't know what has happened, but try using a live CD and bootdiskrepair (search Google for more info) to help.

Isaac Walker-cox

Posted 2015-12-26T05:20:44.697

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