How to install windows 10 on a linux mint.?

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is it possible? to install windows 10 on a linux mint? i didnt read the installation process of linux mint but wiped out my whatever it is that my operating system was in including my personal files and such. I dont know anything about linux or its other partners as mint etc. any way to install back my windows 10 never thought this would be end of the road dead installation and dead pc. I have the requirements for running windows 10.
 
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iso to USB is definitely not by Microsoft.

Think of all the time you could've saved if you had just followed the simple instructions at Microsoft that I linked to back in post #2. They are designed so even the dumbest person can follow them, but apparently not someone who is unwilling to read them.
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Sure, you just download and create the media the usual way and boot from it.

The installer will have to format the drive back to NTFS from the ext3/4 that the Mint installer formatted it as. There may also be linux pagefile partitions and such that Windows doesn't use that may be deleted.

If you previously had 10 installed then leave the key blank and it should activate itself the first time it goes online. If you had 7 or 8 then try entering the key for those. Otherwise leave it blank and run it in nagware mode until you buy a license.
 
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How exactly are you creating the media? When you go to Microsoft's download page in linux, you are only presented with .iso image files. It's easiest to burn these images to a disc (but obviously not as a file, because that wouldn't be bootable). It's a lot harder to make USB media from it in linux as you'd need a 3rd party tool like UNetbootin, so if you need USB it would be easiest to make that from another Windows machine.

If you don't already have a license for 10 then you can just buy it already loaded onto USB media.
 
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While rufus can supposedly save a whopping 5 minutes off of what Microsoft's USB maker takes, there are many more settings you can get completely wrong while Microsoft's works for sure. For someone who doesn't like to read the installation process I'd bet it wouldn't save any time at all.

Rufus only runs in Windows, so it's not like you couldn't have used Microsoft's tool instead.
 
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iso to USB is definitely not by Microsoft.

Think of all the time you could've saved if you had just followed the simple instructions at Microsoft that I linked to back in post #2. They are designed so even the dumbest person can follow them, but apparently not someone who is unwilling to read them.
 
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To install windows over linux Mint, if you have but 1 hard drive, is to format the drive, install the Windows OS first, then install the Linux OS second. If you have more than 1 Hard Drive in your computer, you could install the windows OS on a second drive and then down GRUB to take care of the start up issues.
 
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