Need Want to remove ubuntu and install windows again

[nocruoro]

Standard keys, but best to look at your manual.

UEFI/BIOS Boot keys - about halfway down on this Microsoft page
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...ows-to-go.aspx
http://www.eightforums.com/

Seems to be F12 for acer model notebooks. Don't have a manual, this laptop/notebook was a "hand-me-down" gift from my dad 2 years ago.

So if i keep things simple, use windows media create tool on a friends pc to fix my usb drive. turn off my notebook or use restart and quickly.... press F12 while the usb is connected during reboot then i should be able to use a boot manager to see my usb drive and follow instructions?


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i need to work on this carefully or slowly this week. lot of with garbage maintenance at the supermarket i work at and snow shovelling where i live which takes a lot of energy out of me.

[nocruoro]

new problem i keep getting a required media driver or partition is missing during the installation. Is there anyway to diagnose this in ubuntu.

[Frogs Hair]

First try a different usb port if possible. This is a known problem so use the following search term to find possible solutions.

required media driver or partition is missing

[nocruoro]

I'm also getting a recommendation on tenforums to di this

try booting a LIVE linux distro --e.g fedora from a USB drive and run gparted. It should see a disk -- then reformat that or even use the linux command mkfs.ntfs -f /dev/sdx where x is the nr of the HDD drive. (Install ntfs-3g if not installed on the live distro --you can install stuff - it's not persistent on next boot but it will work for what you need to do).

can this work with any version of a ubuntu or inux installer to clean a drive?

[oldfred]

That is to create a NTFS partition for Windows install.

How did you create Ubuntu live installer.
Multiple ways.
Lots of info on USB boot for installing
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/In...n/FromUSBStick
Ubuntu install guide - multiple ways to create live installer to flash drive
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation
Most find this works:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb or
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Win32DiskImager/iso2usb

[maryoung]

I searched on Google but i didn't do that,we are allowed to make a Windows bootable USB on Linux.

[oldfred]

UEFI only uses FAT32 which has a size limit on one file of 4GB, but Windows wim is now too large, extracted into a NTFS partition and only boot files in FAT32.
https://techbit.ca/2019/02/creating-...e-using-linux/
https://itsfoss.com/bootable-windows-usb-linux/