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I had a dual boot setup with Windows 8 and Ubuntu. The laptop has a normal HDD and a smaller SSD. Both OS were on the HDD.

I decided to make a clean install of a newer version of Ubuntu on the SSD. The Windows partition is still on the HDD.

But now I cannot boot Windows and I am not sure what I should do to fix the issue.

Here are some pics from gparted.

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  • I normally would use the Windows Recovery console to repair the windows bootloader in a situation like this.
    – Ramhound
    Jul 2, 2014 at 16:19
  • Yes, but how can I access the recovery console? I don't see anything related in the GRUB menu (other than the entry for Windows 8).
    – George Kastrinis
    Jul 2, 2014 at 16:43
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    You can try to repair your boot grub using ubuntu live cd
    – A. Prasad
    Jul 2, 2014 at 16:49
  • Why are you trying to use Grub? You need to boot to a Windows disk, in order to repair the Windows boot loader. You need to fix the Windows boot loader before it will show up in grub.
    – Ramhound
    Jul 2, 2014 at 17:23
  • Ok the problem was that I don't have the windows 8 CD for this setup (nor a CD driver for that matter). I found a solution though. F12 during boot brings up an option to select where to boot from, and I found an option in the end that started the windows repair which fixed the issue.
    – George Kastrinis
    Jul 9, 2014 at 6:15

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Ok the problem was that I don't have the windows 8 CD for this setup (nor a CD driver for that matter). I found a solution though. F12 during boot brings up an option to select where to boot from, and I found an option in the end that started the windows repair which fixed the issue.

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