Reinstating windows

[acs42]

I am having no luck with running Linux so I want to go back to pathetic, but at least working, Windows 10. I'm having problems finding an easy way to remove Linux and reinstall Windows. Can anyone help, please?

[Moem]

I am having no luck with running Linux

And yet you never bothered to come here and ask for help? What a shame. Sounds to me like you never gave yourself much of a chance.

There is no need to remove your Linux Mint installation. You can just reinstall Windows the usual way and have it use the whole disk. Then your Mint installation will be gone.

[Mattyboy]

+1 for what Moem said. You should ask for more help running Linux.. that being said...

You will have to run the Windows DISKPART, CLEAN command on your hard drive from command prompt before you can re-install Windows as it can't read the Linux ext drive format.... google is your friend.

[MintBean]

Best place for Windows installation advice is a Windows forum. If you want help installing Linux, this is the place.

[Moem]

it can't read the Linux ext drive format....

Woops! Thanks for that correction. It's been a while, I tend to forget the shortcomings in Windows because I don't deal with them anymore.

[catweazel]

+1 for what Moem said. You should ask for more help running Linux.. that being said...

You will have to run the Windows DISKPART, CLEAN command on your hard drive from command prompt before you can re-install Windows as it can't read the Linux ext drive format.... google is your friend.

Well, I wish I had known that when I reinstalled Windwoes right over the top of Linux Mint with ext4 on a laptop not one hour ago.

[catweazel]

it can't read the Linux ext drive format....

Woops! Thanks for that correction. It's been a while, I tend to forget the shortcomings in Windows because I don't deal with them anymore.

Except that not being able to read ext4 is no barrier to reinstalling Windwoes.

[Mattyboy]

Well, I wish I had known that when I reinstalled Windwoes right over the top of Linux Mint with ext4 on a laptop not one hour ago.

That was lucky, usually Windows moans that it "can't be installed to this disk".

Out of curiosity was it W10 you installed?

[Sir Charles]

Here the Win 10's Installation Media seems to be able to see the Linux Ext4 partitions on my disk with the "delete" button enabled.

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~$ sudo fdisk -l
--snip--
/dev/sda7  129081344 191995903 62914560   30G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda8  191995904 244424703 52428800   25G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda9  244424704 296853503 52428800   25G Linux filesystem

[Mattyboy]

Yeah I noticed the other day when installing the latest W10 update on a new SSD that disk management picked up on my Linux partitions, which is something new, but it still moaned that they needed 'formatting'.

Maybe they've added 'improvements'?.

[catweazel]

Well, I wish I had known that when I reinstalled Windwoes right over the top of Linux Mint with ext4 on a laptop not one hour ago.

That was lucky, usually Windows moans that it "can't be installed to this disk".

Out of curiosity was it W10 you installed?

Yes, I merely deleted the ext4 partition from within the installer, created a new one and off it went.

[Mattyboy]

Yes, I merely deleted the ext4 partition from within the installer, created a new one and off it went.

Well, there you go See my above comment, guess they changed that then.

EDIT: I wonder if this has anything to do with being able to run/install Linux now in powershell?..... nothing like a bit of speculation with your morning coffee!

[Sir Charles]

.... nothing like a bit of speculation with your morning coffee!

That's how I like my coffee too!

[Mattyboy]

That's how I like my coffee too!

[catweazel]

EDIT: I wonder if this has anything to do with being able to run/install Linux now in powershell?..... nothing like a bit of speculation with your morning coffee!

No. Powershell is completely separate from the installer.

[Mattyboy]

No. Powershell is completely separate from the installer.

Yeah, sure... running with the speculation again... but it makes sense that you can/will be able to read/write to ext from within the Windows environment seeing as Linux is now an option, right?. Whats the point in running it from within Windows if it can't read the disks on a Linux server for example?

I duuno, to early for this

[catweazel]

Whats the point in running it from within Windows if it can't read the disks on a Linux server for example?

There is no need for speculation.

Enterprise customers forced Microsoft's hand. More than 40% of Azure cloud servers run linux, as do at least 60% of AWS cloud servers. powershell on linux is merely another tool that allows developers and operations (devops) people to manage windows servers, Azure, VMware, Hyper-V and other systems without the need to use Windwoes.

[Mattyboy]

Enterprise customers forced Microsoft's hand. More than 40% of Azure cloud servers run linux, as do at least 60% of AWS cloud servers. powershell on linux is merely another tool that allows developers and operations (devops) people to manage windows servers, Azure, VMware, Hyper-V and other systems without the need to use Windwoes.

Yeah.

Out of curiosity I booted into my W10 earlier and logged into bash on powershell just to see if I could access my ext partitions....

..eh that would be a no Scratch that idea. I know its not what its there for but it would be pretty cool if you could access local ext drives that way. SSH works great accessing my local machines though.

[catweazel]

..eh that would be a no Scratch that idea. I know its not what its there for but it would be pretty cool if you could access local ext drives that way. SSH works great accessing my local machines though.

You need a third party driver to access ext4 from within Windwoes.

https://www.paragon-software.com/home/linuxfs-windows

[Mattyboy]

https://www.paragon-software.com/home/linuxfs-windows

Oh, now there's a new toy!.....or do I really wanna give it access to my safe secure drives? Don't think I trust Windose enough for that .... nice one.