Dual Boot: not detecting existing windows OS during installation

Bug #1313340 reported by Sandeep Venugopal
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
os-prober (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

I have windows installed on my laptop (Lenovo g580) and I wanted to install ubuntu 14.04 alongside windows 7 but during installation it says no operating system is detected.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: shim (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.340
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Apr 27 13:15:26 2014
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: shim
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

Steve Langasek (vorlon)
affects: shim (Ubuntu) → os-prober (Ubuntu)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in os-prober (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Tushar Bhatt (bhatttushar) wrote :

I am also facing the same problem. Is any earlier version is working along with Windows 8.1/8?

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