I am trying to install windows 8 on my PC that is currently running Ubuntu. I have tried to reformat the partition to ntfs however I can out unmount it because it is in use. I have tried using gparted but that does not seem to work. How can I reformat the partition? My data is already backed up on an external hard drive.
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Please provide more detail, like how many partitions you have, which partition you wan to format, better a screenshot of Gparted`. – g_p Oct 05 '14 at 16:26
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possible duplicate of How to resize partitions? – Eliah Kagan Oct 05 '14 at 17:09
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"How can I reformat the partition?" Guess what the 1st thing the windows installer is going to do when you try to install windows. – Rinzwind Oct 05 '14 at 19:09
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When I try to install windows it says that it needs a partition in ntfs format. So it won't do it for me – Greg1487 Oct 06 '14 at 00:15
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You should use gparted from a live-cd/usb.
For example with the image.iso of Gparted:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gparted/gparted-live-0.19.1-4-i486.iso
The bootable GParted Live image can also be installed on a Cd/Usb flash drive.
After you download the imagen.iso, run the Unetbootin program and follow the instructions in the GUI to install GParted Live on your USB flash drive.
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From a terminal, run the following command using the gparted .iso file name and Cd/Usb device path:
$ sudo -i
# dd if=/path-to-gparted-live.iso of=/dev/sdx bs=4M; sync
Note: replace x by their corresponding drive (b-c-d-e)
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