How to install windows 8 Bootloader?

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  Abhishek Rawal

  You haven't provided precise information of your hard-disk partition which is making hard to understand.
  
  In terminal type sudo parted /dev/sda print | grep -i efi
  Note the first line of it somewhere.
  Also post it here.
  
  Now create a file called 30_windows in /etc/grub.d
  Open it with gedit & paste code :
  
  

  #!/bin/bash
  cat << EOF
  menuentry "Windows 8" {
  insmod part_gpt
  insmod chain
  setroot '(hd0,gpt1)'
  chainloader /EFI/microsoft/BOOT/bootmgfw.efi
  }
  EOF
  

  if your OS is in 2nd or third drive then replace by hd1 & hd2 resp.
  save the file.
  
  Open terminal & type :
  sudo update-grub
  
  Reboot !
  
  PS : You need Kernel 3.3.0 for BootEFI to support,If you're using Ubuntu 12.04 then you gotta update kernel as it is 3.2.0 generic.
  
  Enjoy.
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  Ashish Ahuja

  The 1 TB hard disk is divided in three sections. 200gb each for windows 8 and Ubuntu and rest of it for windows 7 and other recovery and OEM partitions. And now its causing another problem in Ubuntu. Its stuck at the boot screen and the log in screen doesn't appear. I tried opening it in command line using tty1 console and typed "startx" but even that doesn't seem to be working with a time out error.
  PS: Thanks for helping anyways but unable to fix this stuff.
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  Abhishek Rawal

  This problem always occurs when you dual boot with "automatic installation" of ubuntu,Thus I always suggest manual installation.
  
  Have you created partitions of /boot,/root,/usr,/usr/local,/tmp,/root & so on manually ?
  If yes then you can fix the issue easily by re-installing ubuntu but if not then you'll lose all the installed data.
  
  PS : Tell the process you did while installing OS.I mean first you installed 7 then Linux & then 8 ? or by anyother way ? Do mention in detail.