Moving from Linux (ubuntu) to windows (7)

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Aidan Rooney

Aidan Rooney

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So my laptop was having problems a while ago so i decided to install ubuntu to try it and so i had a fresh OS. I want to move back to windows as it has more software support and i just prefer it, but i'm struggling to do so.

I have a windows 7 disk, but when i go into the bios and try boot from disk, it says it's the wrong format. I've tried looking it up but i can't find anything that helps.
 
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well if it's from windows, its a bootable image. the existing linux installation should not be interfering in any way, it shouldn't even make it that far. go in to BIOS and there will a boot order, make sure that the cd drive is before the hard drive. that way the computer will look for a bootable image on the cd drive and not even load to linux because it will boot to the disk. then from the windows installation disk there should be an option to format your hard drive, etc.
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Aidan Rooney

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Sorry, here's some more details :p

hp pavilion g6
it can boot to linux fine, then i think it can boot from the disk as it shows the windows logo, but i think it could be to do with linux not using exe's?
i'm not sure about it being an image file, it's a CD from windows not a custom made one though

I've tried looking it up and some people are saying i need to delete my harddrive partitions as they're the wrong format but i couldn't do that as the tutorials weren't great
 
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well if it's from windows, its a bootable image. the existing linux installation should not be interfering in any way, it shouldn't even make it that far. go in to BIOS and there will a boot order, make sure that the cd drive is before the hard drive. that way the computer will look for a bootable image on the cd drive and not even load to linux because it will boot to the disk. then from the windows installation disk there should be an option to format your hard drive, etc.
 
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