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Trying to install windows7 while on Ubuntu 10.4

Asked by James Celona

My school has extreme prejudice when it comes to Linux and I just don't have the time between classes to get their temperamental system to love me, I digress:

I want to fully install windows 7 on my laptop, as in get rid of Ubuntu, and I get to the part on the windows 7 installation disk where it shows me the partitions on my hard drive and it says that they are not NTFS and so it cannot be installed on them, I know. My question is if I delete the partition with Linux on it at the windows installer what will happen? Will the partition default back to NTFS? Does windows format it to NTFS? I'm confused and I keep getting mixed answers.

If you need my laptop information, doubt it, I'll post. I'm running:

You are using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - the Lucid Lynx - released in April 2010 and supported until April 2013.

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marcus aurelius (adbiz) said : 		#1

I'm surprised no one has said to try a windoze group, as this is for ubuntu only.

If you format your drives, you'll lose everything. Windoze automatically formats to NTFS on the partition that holds the Windoze system. For other partitions, you can choose whatever you want NTSF, FAT32, FAT16.

I'm glad I switched from Windoze 7.

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James Celona (james-celona) said : 		#2

Well, they're providing little information and most "well it should" nothing definitive.

Can I possibly make a live CD of Ubuntu and format the partitions to NTFS myself?

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