Currently, it boots to Ubuntu from a USB, if I have it plugged in,
otherwise it boots into Widows 8.1.

When booted using the live USB, the Ubuntu partition installed on the hard
drive seems to be all there, although I wouldn't know if some files were
missing.

On 20 June 2015 at 22:25, Barry Drake <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 20/06/15 22:01, Tony Pursell wrote:
>
>> Well, its booted into Windows showing the reduced size Windows partition.
>> This is the first time I have installed on a PC with EFI - is there
>> something I should have done first?
>>
>
> Very definitely.  You must boot in EFI mode.  If you don't see a grub
> screen, then it can't boot EFI from a USB stick.  I do mine from an
> external DVD ....  Can't you do that?  Windows will be messed up (I think)
> by grub ....  It messes the EFI partition up by installing grub into the
> boot sector.  Not quite sure what it will do then.  Make sure you can
> re-install Windows - you may have to.
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