Hi Gordon, On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 12:12 Gordon Burgess-Parker <gordo...@mail.com> wrote:
<snip> > > > > > > > The machine restarts, and goes straight into Windows. No sign of the Ubuntu install at all. It sounds like you've got Ubuntu installed correctly and you're just having a boot order /priority problem. > > > > > > If I examine the HDD in Disk management within Windows, there are no formatted partitions in the unallocated space at all. > This is normal - windows doesn't understand Linux filesystems and chooses to pretend the partition is empty. > > > > AFAIK Windows 8.1 with Bing is no different at all to “normal” Windows 8.1 so can anyone tell me what’s going on? (I’ve tried both with Ubuntu 14.04 and Xubuntu 14.10 - both had the same result). > Try looking in the thing formerly known as "BIOS setup", probably by pressing an F key when you've just turned it on, maybe F2 or F10, and looking for settings to do with boot order or priority, or "legacy boot" > > > > > Can anyone shed any light as to what’s going on? Hopefully there's a clue in there somewhere... > > > > Cheers > > > > Gordon Thanks Matt Apologies if Gmail on my phone has garbled this message somewhat...
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