Problems dualbooting Ubuntu because of UEFI

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Published on 2012-11-13T11:13:21Z Indexed on 2012/11/13 11:21 UTC
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I have an X-series Asus laptop which I just bough about a month ago. I want to dualboot Ubuntu - Windows.

I can easily access LiveUSB with both UEFI enabled and disabled. I heard that there were problems with UEFI, so I disabled it. After I've installed the system I couldn't access it. It just boots to Windows straight.

Another unusual thing, that never happened to me before was that the partition editor wanted me to create a BIOS reserved area, which I did, but not at the beginning of the table.

Any ideas how to access the Ubuntu partition?

As far as I can guess both Windows and Ubuntu have to be both of the same type of boot, either Legacy or EFI. This is not the case of what I have now. So, if I reinstall Ubuntu in UEFI mode that correlates with my Windows type, will I then be able to boot into it?

I have a constraint, my laptop doesn't have a CD ROM, so I cannot reinstall WIndows, nor can I move around the Windows recovery partition.

This is the boot-repair report :

http://paste.ubuntu.com/1354254/

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