I've installed Linux Mint 11 on my Acer Aspire Timeline 4810 TZ, but I can't get comfortable with it.
Tried to install Windows 7 back on the computer (booting from cd), but it can't use the partitions created by Linux. Can it be explained to me very carefully how to delete the partitions or uninstall mint?
I seem to be quite a Linuxdummie...
How do I remove Linux Mint 11 from my computer?
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How do I remove Linux Mint 11 from my computer?
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Re: How do I remove Linux Mint 11 from my computer?
You're not a linuxdummie because you run into this snag. Windows just cannot read the language that Linux used to format the hard drive or partition. It's like giving somebody a Cyrillic manual when they only know the Latin alphabetingridf wrote:I've installed Linux Mint 11 on my Acer Aspire Timeline 4810 TZ, but I can't get comfortable with it.
Tried to install Windows 7 back on the computer (booting from cd), but it can't use the partitions created by Linux. Can it be explained to me very carefully how to delete the partitions or uninstall mint?
I seem to be quite a Linuxdummie...
What you'll have to do is to reformat. Looking at this manual, when you get to "Where do you want to install Windows?" you will have to click "Drive options (advanced)", select the partition you installed Linux Mint to, and reformat it to NTFS.
Mind you, be very careful here if you have more stuff on the drive. A couple of miss-clicks can result in loss of all data!!
Good luck and too bad Linux didn't cut it for your.
Anakin
Re: How do I remove Linux Mint 11 from my computer?
I tried this, and "Windows can't be installed on this harddiskarea. It has to be installed on a partition that is formatted as NTFS. The partition is unknown".
Only available option is to install a driver which can read/format/convert the linuxpartition. What kind of driver is that? Easybcd?
Only available option is to install a driver which can read/format/convert the linuxpartition. What kind of driver is that? Easybcd?
Re: How do I remove Linux Mint 11 from my computer?
Don't you get either a Format or Delete option after you click "Drive options (advanced)"?
That error makes it sounds as if you click "next" to install windows on a partition that is formatted as (most likely) ext4.
That error makes it sounds as if you click "next" to install windows on a partition that is formatted as (most likely) ext4.
Re: How do I remove Linux Mint 11 from my computer?
Didn't realize I had to make a new partition...
Thanks for the help! I'm sorry too, that I couldn't make it with Linux
Thanks for the help! I'm sorry too, that I couldn't make it with Linux