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I am using a Dell Vostro 3590, Ubuntu Linux version 23.10. However, I am unable to install MySQL community server, MySQL connector which I require for a project I am working on. I tried installing VirtualBox to run Windows 11, however, that too didn't get installed. So I decided that I am going to reinstall Windows 11 once again on my Laptop.

I thought it would be a relatively simple procedure: Download installation tool on my USB, burn it, then enter boot menu and download from there. However, this resulted in a more problems. I had 2 USBs, one which stored Ubuntu and one which stored Windows. When I inserted them however, my Windows one was signalling that it has been inserted, but didn't show up anywhere. My Ubuntu USB became unmountable. So I purchased a new USB, installed windows 11 in it, burnt it using balenaEtcher. But when I opened my boot menu with the pendrive inserted, it didn't show up anywhere, and when I booted back into Ubuntu, and reinserted the USB once again, it didn't show-up on the taskbar, but showed up in disks, and became unusable.

My questions are:

  1. What exactly happened to my USBs?
  2. How do I now install Windows 11 on my PC now?
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    Does this answer your question? How to remove Ubuntu and put Windows back on? – user68186 Dec 27 '23 at 17:32
  • Does this answer your question? How can I create a Windows bootable USB stick using Ubuntu? – karel Dec 27 '23 at 18:45
  • Ubuntu (or a prior OS) is not involved if you're installing Windows; you need your machine firmware to recognize a USB contains a bootable OS & then boot that media instead of booting the installed OS (ie. you don't want Ubuntu running). How you do this varies on the machine itself & its firmware settings, with large variation in options (I have a device that requires it off, me to press & hold a key down then it'll turn on & ask if I want to boot external media; otherwise it won't). Writing windows ISO to media is best done on a windows machine (in my opinion as Microsoft say). – guiverc Dec 27 '23 at 21:00
  • As for your USB; I gather you write the ISO incorrectly and not as the ISO was documented it should have been written (ISO is a vague term, ISO 9660 is used by PCs & even that one standard has a large number of formatted files; relating to music & CDs when they originally came out; not all ISO files are identical thus the instructions on writing them from ISO provider). You likely wrote it using a different method & thus thumb-drive needs to have new partition table & format before it's re-usable. USB flash drives are also low quality, made to cost, and can fail when written to; cheap is the + – guiverc Dec 27 '23 at 21:03

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