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n00b hacker Joined: Jun 13, 2008 Posts: 11 Location:michigan Other Topics	Posted Jun 14, 2008 at 1:04:55 AM Subject: switching back to vista. i installed ubuntu on the whole hard disk and i know im not getting my files back that were on vista but how do i get vista back on even tho i installed ubuntu on my hard disk? i tried but it said it needed to be labelled as ntfs files or something im not really sure but please help me out.
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proopnarine Joined Apr 03, 2008 Posts: 590 Location:San Francisco Other Topics	Posted: Jun 14, 2008 6:12:06 AM Subject: switching back to vista. NTFS is one of the filesystems that Vista will use. It needs to have a compatibly formatted partition for installation, and it cannot use a Linux filesystem. So, your choices are to either use Ubuntu to create a new partition for Vista, or re-install Vista over Ubuntu. Take the red pill Climate Change Blog Food Weblog
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Shashank Sharma Joined Jan 01, 1970 Posts: 1657 Location:New Delhi, India Other Topics	Posted: Jun 14, 2008 8:57:30 AM Subject: switching back to vista. Just remember, Linux distributions and Windows can't co-exist on the same partition. Since you used up the whole disk for Ubuntu, you can't install Windows on it, without either creating a new partition on it or formatting it as NTFS. Linux filesystems (ext2, ext3, reiserfs, etc.) are incompatible with Windows filesystems (fat, ntfs), so, they both require different partitions formatted as different filesystems. Coauthor of Beginning Fedora: From Novice to Professional published by Apress. Please follow the Forum Guidelines
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n00b hacker Joined Jun 13, 2008 Posts: 11 Location:michigan Other Topics	Posted: Jun 14, 2008 2:33:23 PM Subject: switching back to vista. how do i make a new partition?
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Shashank Sharma Joined Jan 01, 1970 Posts: 1657 Location:New Delhi, India Other Topics	Posted: Jun 14, 2008 2:47:40 PM Subject: switching back to vista. In case you don't have any important data on your Ubuntu, or can back it up easily, you can just start over. Pop in the Windows CD, and during the installation create partition for Windows. Once Windows is installed, pop in the Linux CD, and during installation, create partitions and install Linux, you're done. If not, you'd have to resize the existing Ubuntu partition to make space for the new partitions. This guide will help: http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_resizing_ext3_partitions Cheers! Coauthor of Beginning Fedora: From Novice to Professional published by Apress. Please follow the Forum Guidelines
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