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I have been using Ubuntu 14.04 alongside Windows 8 for almost a year and a half. And one day when I restarted to switch to Ubuntu I wasn't able to see the grub options for dual boot and when I tried to go to boot options and chose Ubuntu it says "Selected boot device failed". What could be the reason for this and will I be able to recover the data stored on my Ubuntu partition. Please Help

Look at this image for the disk partition

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  • Please edit your question to include a screenshot of the partition layout from the Disk Management program included with Windows. – You'reAGitForNotUsingGit Dec 05 '16 at 21:05
  • @user68186 Is it really only a grub problem because if I boot ubuntu from BIOS boot options it shows SELECTED BOOT DEVICE FAILED while windows option boots perfectly fine. – Keerthana S Dec 05 '16 at 21:26

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After some surfing around I got the answer. I made a bootable Ubuntu pen drive and chose the option to try Ubuntu. Then followed the instructions here to run boot-repair and I was able to boot to Ubuntu again

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