I have Ubuntu 12.04 right now. For reasons I would like to switch back to windows 7. (Even though I love Ubuntu.) I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of a guide on how to do this? I do not want to keep Ubuntu. I have a flash drive and an external hard drive and I can use either or for the boot. I would like to wipe the whole computer to use windows 7, I also have the product key for it. Any feedback is great, thanks.
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You can write "Windows PE" to a boot disk.Then,format your hard disk.Now you can install Windows 7 in your computer.
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don't know why you want to wipe instead of dual booting,
WARNING : YOUR DATA WILL BE WIPE CLEAN , BACKUP FIRST!
assuming you have background on installing windows, anyway the easy way:
- prepare windows 7 cd / live usb (search google for how to do this)
- boot using windows 7
- when asked to format, delete your ubuntu partition and swap partition
- format all your drive/ create partition
- proceed as usual
summary : you only need to completely format your hdd using ntfs then install windows 7
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Any links to an iso? – user237786 Jan 20 '14 at 03:46
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windows 7 iso ? well if you bought the cd you can convert from cd to iso version (check 'cd to iso' keyword in google). – whale_steward Jan 21 '14 at 04:09
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Best to use a windows Computer to format a usb-drive or at least a pen to backup your data in a way that windows can later read them.
Or - if privacy is a big pile of nerd-talk to you - put it on your cloud-space. (ubuntuone, google drive, dropbox).
Just make sure you don't wipe your drive before saving your stuff.
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