G580 dual boot/BIOS problem

Hello...
I am using Lenovo G580.. By installing the second OS for a duel boot of Windows and Linux I loss my bios... Now I can enter into the bios and I dont have any OS yet... Please help
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I have an identical problem, which I had just accidentally posted in this thread. To summarise, I have Windows 7 (UEFI) and previously had dual-booted with Ubuntu.
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    SOLUTION:
    The problem I described above stemmed from the fact that I had been unable to install W7 without using the legacy option. (The W7 installation would freeze at the first screen.)  That created the boot incompatibilities between W8.1 and W7because I had
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    the USB ports: Front, Top, Back.  The back panel has a mix of USB 2.0 and 3.0 ports and I needed a 2.0 port for the mouse and keyboard to work.  However, disabling the Front and Top USB ports was sufficient. The W7 install no longer froze.
    So, from my W8 installation, I wiped out the SATA drive, changed it back to GPT, partitioned it, disabled the Front and Top USB ports in the BIOS and booted from the W7 DVD.  The installation went fine.  After installing the network driver, downloaded
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