Windows 8 reinstalli​ng and linux

Hello Sir,
I have an HP Pavillion n260tx laptop bought in July 2014. It came with windows 8.1 preinstalled. Because of some study related reasons, I had to install a parallel linux OS (Ubuntu) in it. But windows and UEFI did not allow this (Which is really bad, to be honest). While installing linux and changing the UEFI settings something went wrong with the windows 8 and now its not booting. All my research and work realted data were on windows. It is showing windows but not booting into it.
Now, after all of this, I have decided to install windows 8.1 afresh. HP did not send me any windows recovery disk with the laptop.
Pleas help me get my laptop working with windows 8.1 again.  And also if possible please tell me if my laptop can be made a dual boot win 8.1 and ubuntu machine. Where should I go and what should I do.
Sincerely
Aditya

Hi  Artag,
I want to know what kind of hard disk is that ? A GPT format or MBR format?
According to your description,  the GPT format hard disk might not be detected by a computer with a MBR format hard disk, vice versa, so, I suggest to check the disk format by plugining the hard disk to a bootable Windows 7 system, then:
In the Disk Management console, on the View menu, point to Top, and then click Disk List. The upper pane displays a list of disk drives that specifies the partition style in the last column.
The details about the get disk format steps and information about GPT format, you can find it below:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn653580(v=vs.85).aspx  
Besides, a screenshot will be helpful for solving this.
Regards
Wade Liu
TechNet Community Support

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