Dual Booting Issue

>>59169479
It's not fucked. Windows is just fine, and I can boot into a live session of Ubuntu thru USB.

>>59169447
Did you partition the boot drive correctly?

I'm a novice but at first glance it looks like you tried to put the two boots in the same place

>linux

Found your problem.

>>59169530
My hard disk was partitioned, are you talking about UEFI/BIOS? All the guides I read just said I had to alter the boot order, but the program that does that won't launch, and the Boot Repair tool is giving me an error I can't understand.

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>>59169447
install gentoo

>>59169604
When you make a dual boot you need to initialize a new basic disk as either MBR (master boot record) or GPT

read through all the stuff on the side bar
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771486(v=ws.11).aspx

>>59169706
shit that was the wrong link, that all applies to regular windows though, the disk manager is the same regardless

>>59169706
So, if I just created the partition and went straight to installing Ubuntu, that partition has neither GPT or MBR, am I reading that correctly?

>>59169447
>but linux just works :^)

>>59169447
Install easybcd on windows. Fixes 99% of booting problems plus you can configure the priority, time of boot, grub or bootloader etc.

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i had so many issues with so many distros when trying to dual boot. fedora worked the best, but sometimes the bootloader would get trashed due to the bleeding edge updates every other day.

>>59170228
>paying for software

>>59170028
Got/mbr refers to how a disk allocates its partitions, it's not WITHIN a partition.

If your system goes straight to Windows on boot, that means grub isn't set up properly and the previously existing windows boot method is still in place

>>59170523
Okay. That's my issue. I can still boot into Linux over USB but simply hitting the power key takes me straight to Windows.

What are the downsides of booting in legacy mode instead of UEFI? Will that dramatically affect Windows or the bootloader? It sounds like it's just easier to turn off UEFI instead of trying to make Linux contort itself to work with Microsoft's bullshit.