Bootable USB Or CD/DVD

Philippines
December 18, 2010 12:25pm CST
Anyone knows how to make a USB or CD/DVD bootable? I tried to find in the web and it gives me files for floppy drives. Reason why I need this is because my friend's lappy had a pre installed linux OS (debian) and he's not familiar and wants to use Windows instead. Problem here is Windows have different file system with Linux and suggested to somehow reset the hard drive to its original state (without any OS)
2 responses
kogoto
@kogoto (19)
• Spain
18 Dec 10
if you want delete the linux operating system you have to download some cd/dvd of linux and delete all the partitions... all of CD/DVD of linux are bootable. Once deleted you can install windows... i hope that you fix
insurectus
@insurectus (334)
• Philippines
19 Dec 10
I was thinking about that as well and tried it just today but was still having trouble on this. I have the Ubuntu, Fedora4 and Mandrake. Fedora4 and Mandrake seems to be older versions and when trying to install from command line, it does not give any result with fdisk -l. The disk is on /dev/sda1, tried fdisk /dev/sda1 and it gives the result that it cannot open. Tried Ubuntu and it can see those disk but using the graphical mode and on the partition part, I tried to delete all partitions from the current setup and I thought it would save the settings but it does not, when aborting the installation, the previous partition will retain the setting. Still looking for a boot disk, not the installation disk
lovedude
@lovedude (4447)
• India
20 Dec 10
You can download bootable CD/DVD of XP/Vista from torrent or many other source.. just boot your system with that bootable CD/DVD and when it shows all partitions.. First Delete them and then create them.. so that you can install Windows system in on hard drive..