Replacing Ubuntu with windows 7

[Ragi1992]

That WAS intended as humor...
We still use XP at work, and I use Ubuntu at home - so my experience with W7 is quite limited.
I would expect the installer to have a formatting tool.

[edit]...and outtyped again, too...

Actually both of you were right.. However while the button is there it is nonclickable.. So I guess I'll have to do it while using linux. Is this even possible?

[Ragi1992]

To make it even more fun, GParted will not allow me to reformat my harddrive or unmount it to reformat it.

[C.S.Cameron]

You need to format the drive when booted from a second drive, say the Live CD.

[Ragi1992]

I no longer have the live CD/DVD :\ All I have is the windows 7 iso and thats it.

[Ragi1992]

I ran the command

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=521 count=1

and it came out to this..

dd: opening `/dev/hda': Permission denied

I was trying to remove the linux partition and try to install from my USB again. Obviously that didn't work.. I'm getting very frustrated.

[Ragi1992]

Is there a way to wipe my hard drive without using a live CD/DVD?

[CoreyB.]

If you can boot to your Windows 7 flash drive, this guide should help you.

Though when I've installed Windows 7, I've never seen steps 2 and 3, it just skips from 1 to 4, but that may be because I'm never connected to the internet when I install.

EDIT: Make sure you have a valid legal Windows 7 key before you install.

[Ragi1992]

So a random thing popped up on my files application under devices:

1.1 GB filesystem

Because its mounted its not allowing me to make another partition table?

[HermanAB]

Dual booting is so last century...

Install Virtualbox and make a Windows VM. Then you can run Windows in a window where it belongs. In some respects Windows actually runs faster in Virtualbox than natively on the same hardware.

There is a Virtualization forum for this.

[Ragi1992]

Dual booting is so last century...

Install Virtualbox and make a Windows VM. Then you can run Windows in a window where it belongs. In some respects Windows actually runs faster in Virtualbox than natively on the same hardware.

There is a Virtualization forum for this.

I can't use virtualization for what I'm wanting.