Windows 8 inaccessible after installing Kubuntu 12.10

[longnosemonkey]

vinny, yes, I think my friend tried to remotely install ubuntu or kubuntu for me through WUBI for me a few days ago as Secure Boot wouldn't let me boot GParted on my Windows 8 laptop. The installation failed early in the process. Maybe in the download stage itself. My friend said that WUBI may not have been updated to handle Windows 8.

Pauly, I'm going to try that.

[pauly]

Also you may need to hit f10 at boot and enter your bios/uefi and turn off secure boot in the security tab. Some computers have that option.

[vinnywright]

My wireless doesn't work, I can't get applications from the repository.

Can I install it by USB again? And how would I do that?

download from hear http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=gawk ,,,,,,when you have it copyd to Kubuntu right click it and open with ,,Qapt package installer.

VINNY

[pauly]

Can you plug the ethernet straight into your computer? That might be helpful.

[vinnywright]

and 1 question while we are at it ,,,, did you ever try to do a WUBI install of Kubuntu inside of windows ? it looks like it.

VINNY

[longnosemonkey]

My wireless doesn't work, I can't get applications from the repository.

Can I install it by USB again? And how would I do that?

[Snowhog]

The good news is that you didn't install Grub to the MBR, so your Windows installation is still intact. But let's rerun the script after you install gawk. In the console type:

sudo apt-get install gawk

After it's installed rerun the script and post the new file, which should be RESULTS1.txt.

[longnosemonkey]

Hi Vinny, I did what you said. Sorry Snowhog, I didn't see your post until after I finished vinny's instructions. But the terminal did some analysis and pointed me to the RESULTS file.

Before running the script, the terminal said:

"gawk" could not be found, using "busybox awk" instead.
This may lead to unreliable results.

I have no idea what that means. But I've moved the RESULTS file back and attached it.

Please advise me on what to do next.

RESULTS.txt

[Snowhog]

Step 1. Open a console. Press Alt+F2 and type: konsole and press enter
Step 2. Change directory to Downloads. Type: cd Downloads and press enter
Step 3. Make the file executable. Type: chmod +x bootinfoscript and press enter
Step 4. Execute bootinfoscript. Type: sudo ./bootinfoscript and press enter

[vinnywright]

open a terminal agin ,,,,,,,type

cd Downloads

and press enter,,,,,,,now type

sudo ./bootinfoscript

and press enter when it finishes runing you will find a new .txt file in ~/Downloads named RESULTS.txt attach it to your next post hear.

VINNY

[longnosemonkey]

I have the files in /home/<name>/Downloads/

I just manually checked that. The three files are bootinfoscript (the script), CHANGELOG and README. The latter two are document files. I don't know how it works in Linux, but I double clicked the bootinfoscript file and nothing happens except the icon's top left corner switches between "+" and "-" signs.

I'm new to Linux. I don't understand what you mean by making it executable from inside the directory.

Can you give me step by step instructions?

[vinnywright]

I dont think he has the script in ~/Downloads ,,,,,,do you.

we need to know the exact path to the location of the bootinfoscript shell script .

like @hear it is in /home/vinny/Downloads/testboot/bootinfoscript-061/ ,,,,,,you can make it executable by using the

chmod +x bootinfoscript

from inside the directory where the file lives and

sudo ./bootinfoscript

to run it if you are in the directory
where it is.

you will not get a response from the console if it works

VINNY

[longnosemonkey]

When I first typed that command in and forgot to leave a space between "chmod" and "+x" and "~", I got the response: No such file or directory.

I then typed it in with spaces between all the words like so: chmod +x ~/Downloads/bootinfoscript, but the console doesn't respond, it just goes to the next line.

[Snowhog]

Make sure that the file is executable. In the console type:

chmod +x ~/Downloads/bootinfoscript

[longnosemonkey]

I downloaded the bootinfoscript file, unzipped it in Windows and moved all three files into Kubuntu under <name>/Downloads.

When I try to run this command: sudo ~/Downloads/bootinfoscript , I'm told "command not found"

What next?