06-18-2018, 08:32 PM
It was probably caused when the OP installed the 3.8 system. Just took the whole drive and went MBR and broke a Windows 32bit BIOS partition. I pulled the drive and plugged it into my one pure Linux box that has never had Windows on it and installed the system to the drive there. I plugged it back into the Windows 8 problem box, tweaked a few hardware settings and all is well with the HDD though I must hit F1 to boot. Ugly I know, but it was a long day and I got the box and drive in that condition from another person.
I tried zeroing the whole drive initially with a gparted live disk which took quite a while but then the ISO wouldn't install. Even Debian net install bailed at grub installation so it did not solve the sector misalignment issue. That's when ugly came into play. The drive can't be zeroed out of misalignment running on the offending machine once the BIOS persistent partition is corrupted. Drive must be removed from the Windows machine with the broken BIOS to do so, OR initially set up for Ubuntu from a Windows power shell which is unfortunately an option the OP no longer has.
TC
I tried zeroing the whole drive initially with a gparted live disk which took quite a while but then the ISO wouldn't install. Even Debian net install bailed at grub installation so it did not solve the sector misalignment issue. That's when ugly came into play. The drive can't be zeroed out of misalignment running on the offending machine once the BIOS persistent partition is corrupted. Drive must be removed from the Windows machine with the broken BIOS to do so, OR initially set up for Ubuntu from a Windows power shell which is unfortunately an option the OP no longer has.
TC
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