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Alright, so I just recently got a sort of hand-me-down laptop for uni that the original user had put some weird strain of Linux onto, erasing the default windows partition completely. I, being in completely new territory, don't care for it and am trying to get it back to windows. I have a disk for it, but the problem is that the laptop is one of the thinner models that doesn't have a disk player. I tried an external disk drive, but it only gets halfway through the loading splash before freezing up. Is there a way I can open the disk files in my desktop and create a bootable USB with them? Would this method even work?
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Anonymous
>>654644 It can't find my disk, nor can I find the ISO
Anonymous
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>>654642 Use the free media creation tool. There's even one for Windows 7 if you have a genuine product key.
Anonymous
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>>654650 >I have a disk for it >It can't find my disk Try windows iso downloader, i have a bunch if ISOs but they are in spanish.
Anonymous
Update: I think I bricked the laptop. Decided to go with the media creation tool, set up the usb with win 10, and tried to do it up. Partition was not right format so went back into ubuntu, got to the disk space and formatted the disk to right format. Restart computer, try to boot with usb, partition is too small. Try to get back into ubuntu. Can't get back into ubuntu. Is there a hard disk recovery program that can be run from a bootable and let me access the disk and give the partition more space or am I royally fucked?
Anonymous
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>>654707 Gparted Live USB.
Anonymous
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>>654707 Or if you don't care about Linux and don't care about the data, just boot off a Windows USB, delete every partition and install into the (now) free space.
Anonymous
>>654707 Just delete all the partitions and start from scratch, the live USB boots from memory not hdd
Anonymous
>>654779 How? Ubuntu can't start because I reformatted the disk for Windows, but I can't get windows to start because it has been relegated to trying to install to a partition that is too small. Do I need to pry the computer open with a smaller version of windows/ubuntu to open the partition up or is there a way to wipe the partition without needing to get into the system?
Anonymous
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>>654813 Just boot up from the usb drive, check into the bios and put USB drive as priority before it checks the hard drive. Each bios is different maybe you can take a pic with your phone or something if you can't find the setting.
Anonymous
>>654813 >is there a way to wipe the partition Anonymous
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>>655029 Oooohhhhhhhhhhh…
As if I couldn't feel any more stupid about this, the answer was staring me in the face. Laptop's up and running. Thanks for helping out this brainlet, anons.
