Linux ubuntu 16.04

[dome3731]

Hello, I really need someone's help. My sister bought a laptop (dell inspirion 3552) and I don't know how to install windows onto it. Someone suggests unmounting the disk but the disk is "busy" when I try to do that. I managed to install it onto a virtual machine but don't know how to make windows the only OS.

[NinjaJc01]

3 minutes ago, dome3731 said:

Hello, I really need someone's help. My sister bought a laptop (dell inspirion 3552) and I don't know how to install windows onto it. Someone suggests unmounting the disk but the disk is "busy" when I try to do that. I managed to install it onto a virtual machine but don't know how to make windows the only OS.

So you're trying to install windows from linux? You need to make a bootable USB drive or CD with the windows ISO for that.

[dome3731]

1 minute ago, NinjaJc01 said:

So you're trying to install windows from linux? You need to make a bootable USB drive or CD with the windows ISO for that.

I have a windows.iso on a usb disk but how do I boot from that?

[NinjaJc01]

2 minutes ago, dome3731 said:

I have a windows.iso on a usb disk but how do I boot from that?

You can't. You need to write the ISO properly to the USB drive, not just put it on there. Give me a minute and I will look up what the best utility for this on Ubuntu is.

[Ronda]

You can't just copy an .iso onto a flash drive you have to write it to the drive as an image and make the partition bootable.

Ubuntu should have an USB image writer utility that does that  ( search for it in the menu).

[dome3731]

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1 minute ago, NinjaJc01 said:

You can't. You need to write the ISO properly to the USB drive, not just put it on there. Give me a minute and I will look up what the best utility for this on Ubuntu is.

 

1 minute ago, Ronda said:

You can't just copy an .iso onto a flash drive you have to write it to the drive as an image and make the partition bootable.

Ubuntu should have an USB image writer utility that does that  ( search for it in the menu).

OOOH, so that's what I messed up.

[NinjaJc01]

4 minutes ago, dome3731 said:

I have a windows.iso on a usb disk but how do I boot from that?

http://en.congelli.eu/prog_info_winusb.html

[dome3731]

I need to mount it from my windows PC using this program?

[dome3731]

39 minutes ago, NinjaJc01 said:

http://en.congelli.eu/prog_info_winusb.html

 

40 minutes ago, Ronda said:

You can't just copy an .iso onto a flash drive you have to write it to the drive as an image and make the partition bootable.

Ubuntu should have an USB image writer utility that does that  ( search for it in the menu).

Thank you so much I finally managed to do it with microsoft's program for installing a usb boot drive.