I messed up. I put my Linux disk in by mistake and formatted the hard drive.
Now, when I try to install Win7 it tells me that the disc is not recognised and needs to be NTFS. The format icon is greyed out, so how do I do it?
I don't have the original windows discs and the recovery partition has been deleted.
All Linux code must be deleted.
Disk - Clean and Clean All with Diskpart Command
Partition or Volume - Delete
Partition or Volume - Create New
Partition - Mark as Active
Try a full clean & full format in command prompt.
1) Boot DVD & Press Shift+F10 (for command prompt)
2) Boot DVD, & Command Prompt at Startup command prompt)
Type in command line
DISKPART
LIST DISK
SELECT DISK # (win HD)
CLEAN ALL
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
SELECT PARTITION 1
ACTIVE
FORMAT fs=NTFS
ASSIGN
EXIT
EXIT
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Thanks for the help. That's very thorough.
Unfortunately, the PC doesn't actually boot to Linux. It hangs at a blue desktop with Acer Aspire One written on it - the netbook that the disk is actually for.
If you dont have a win7 disk, you can download a recovery disk, then run Theog's instructions from there.
Download Windows 7 System Recovery Discs — The NeoSmart Files
Capt Seo,
You can use your Win 7 DVD.
Boot from the Win 7 DVD
When you get that very first dialog, use SHIFT + F10 key combo to get to a command prompt.
From that command prompt you can use the procedure using DiskPart.
Simply enter DiskPart and hit enter and follow the procedure given in an earlier post.
If you have a Win 7 System Repair disk you can boot from it.
Let's see what I have for notes:
GO TO A COMMAND PROMPT USING A SYSTEM REPAIR DISK
1) Make a System Repair Disk (WIN key| type Create System Repair Disk | ENTER key)
2) Insert System Repair Disk into optical reader.
3) Shutdown your computer.
4) Boot up your computer from the System Repair Disk (if needed, Power on button, immediately hit F2 key, change boot order to have boot from cd/dvd first).
5) Wait while a mini-version of Windows is loaded and finally the System Recovery Options dialog appears.
6) SYSTEM RECOVERY OPTIONS dialog |
will show Select a keyboard input method |
NEXT button
7) SYSTEM RECOVERY OPTIONS dialog
will search your system for installed versions of Windows.
8) SYSTEM RECOVERY OPTIONS dialog |
select the Use recovery tools that can help fix problems starting Windows radio button |
NEXT button
9) SYSTEM RECOVERY OPTIONS |
will show Choose a recovery tool and list the following |
System Repair
System Restore
System Image Recovery
Windows Memory Diagnostic
Command Prompt
10) Click on command prompt | run any desired commands | type EXIT when finished
11) Remove the System Repair Disk CD
12) SHUTDOWN button
13) Power On your computer
And for the future, consider making a system image--see following:
START | type System Repair | Enter key | Create Disk buttonCREATE A SYSTEM REPAIR DISK
CREATE A SYSTEM IMAGE BACKUPCREATE AND RESTORE A SYSTEM IMAGE
· START | type Backup your computer | Enter key
· In left-hand pane, select Create a System Image
· select where you want to save the backup | Next
· Select the drives you want to backup | Next
· Start Backup button
· Finish button after completion
RESTORE A SYSTEM IMAGE BACKUP
· Boot from the System Repair CD you created.
· Connect the external drive with the backup image
· NEXT button (change language if desired)
· Restore your computer using a system image
that you created earlier radio button
· NEXT button
· Use the latest available system image radio button
· NEXT button
· Format and repartition disks checkbox
· NEXT button
· FINISH button
· YES button
Managed to do it from Windows disc by deleting the offending partitions and re-starting the installation.
Worked a treat.
Actually, this wasn't needed - you could have easily fixed it from the Linux disk using parted to relabel the partition as ntfs using ntfs-3g. Just a note for the future.
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