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I am trying to get Ubuntu 13.10 onto my laptop, but do not have a CD, DVD or USB drive at hand. When I had this problem previously, I used UNetbootin, however when I tried doing that this time I bumped into this bug.

The operating system currently on the laptop is Windows 8.1.

My question is:

How can I install Ubuntu 13.10 onto a separate partition of my hard drive, without the use of a CD/DVD or USB drive? I imagine that the partition could be formatted as ext4 through Windows somehow, the .iso extracted and the installer running from either the Windows partition or a separated smaller partition that would later be merged into the larger linux partition. Or something else entirely!

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I did some research into the mbr bug and it turns out that it is because I am using UEFI. As I have Windows 8.1 installed, I cannot change this now.

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  • Do you have a spare computer handy that you could install linux onto ?
    – Lawrence
    Commented Nov 22, 2013 at 0:34
  • @Lawrence sadly not.
    – OMGtechy
    Commented Nov 22, 2013 at 9:06

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Easy BCD can boot image files from your hard drive, I have done this on windows 7. It may work on windows 8.1 too.

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  • I tried this and had a similar problem to with EasyBCD; AutoNeoGrub0 could not be loaded.
    – OMGtechy
    Commented Nov 22, 2013 at 18:53
  • Marking this as a solution, since the AutoNewGrub0 problem was separate.
    – OMGtechy
    Commented Mar 18, 2014 at 19:22

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