Ubuntu To Windows 10

I have a new HP PC which has Ubuntu as it's OS and I want Windows, I have 10 on a USB and 8.1 on a disc. I tried to just install both but I get stopped at this:


"This computer started using the installation disc. Remove the disc and start Windows normally, then insert the disc and continue the upgrade".

I don't understand this, every tutorial I can find is dual boot, so I don't know how to fix it.

Making matters worse, I can't access the Internet as I'm really lost with Ubuntu, asking for a password I don't have.

Please could someone help me put Windows on this PC before I go crazy!!!

 

Are your Windows install media both upgrade versions or full versions? If they are upgrade versions then you need a full version of Windows to upgrade from, hence the message asking you to insert the disc after Windows has started.

What HP PC do you have?

 

Firstly, thanks.

It's a HP Pavillion 500 series.

I tried a win 7 full version from usb, but I now think it's a partition issue as neither patitions will accept the Win 7, asking for NTFS.

I'm totally alien to Ubuntu, so I have no idea how to get the internet operaional, despite a LAN connection, so I can't even find software on the NET, that would allow me to add and change partitions.
Not sure if I can download Ubuntu stuff on this PC and stick it on a flash drive, but finding difinitive aswers is very difficult.

 

What you need is a bootable partition manager, such as Partition Wizard. Burn it to CD and boot to it. You will then be able to clear the disc ready for installing Windows.

 

There are 234 different models in the Pavilion 500 series. Can you be more specific so we have a clue which of the 234 you have?

 

I'm an Ubuntu user, not a Windows user; so I'm very familiar with Ubuntu, not so much with Windows. Until you receive the help you're looking for, perhaps I can help you navigate Ubuntu and learn to use it? Maybe.....just maybe, it'll grow on you? Your internet access (you said LAN ethernet connection, right?) sounds like a router password issue. Ubuntu WANTS to connect to a network. But it either needs a password to a secured network, or an open network. Ubuntu is a bit of a culture shock for new users, but it really is a wonderful OS once you learn the basics of how to use it. If you're interested in giving Ubuntu a chance, here's a user-friendly video for beginners:



And if it turns out that Ubuntu just isn't for you, for whatever reason (it IS your computer, right?!), the Windows option is still out there. It's kind of hard to find Ubuntu pre-installed on a computer though. How did Ubuntu get on that machine? Did you install it? Or did you purchase it as an OEM installation? If the former, it is quite possible that you (or whomever performed the install) installed a dual-boot configuration. You may already have Windows on that machine and not even be aware of it!!!

FWIW, your issues sound UEFI-related. The BIOS, as you know it, no longer exists. Modern computers, especially Win10 computers now use Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) to boot and manage computer hardware...think of it as BIOS on steroids. There are 2 features in the UEFI that are typically enabled by default that I think may be affecting your ability to install a new OS on that machine: secure-boot and fastboot. Both need to be disabled. I'm inclined to believe that they already are, as there are only 2 scenarios I can think of for your computer to have Ubuntu on it:

1. You are dual-booting Windows and Ubuntu (and don't know you have that capability). This would have required that secure-boot and fastboot be disabled to allow the Ubuntu installation.
2. Ubuntu was pre-installed by OEM. Again, if your machine has UEFI instead of BIOS, secure-boot and fastboot would have been disabled to allow a bare metal installation of Ubuntu.

Depending on your answers above, I suspect you have a dual-boot arrangement and you are somehow overwriting, or ATTEMPTING to overwrite your currently existing Windows installation. But it's just a theory. Here's more info on "how to dual boot":

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2955...linux-with-windows-what-you-need-to-know.html

In the second photo of that article, there is a screenshot of GRUB, with Ubuntu as the default choice (* next to Ubuntu entry) and Windows 7 at the bottom. When you boot, does your screen look like that, with a Windows entry at the bottom of the list? If so, you have dual boot capabilities, and Windows is already installed, simply waiting for you to select it! Without more info, this seems to make the most sense, so I'm betting this is the case. Let us know please...

 

I'm not sure that is correct. Some Dells came with Ubuntu, not Windows.
New computers don't come with dual boot systems and the OP said the computer was new.

 

507x is the model.

Hedon James, awesome sales pitch, but I've dabbled with iy over the years and no, it's not for me.

Internet is now working, was an issue with the router.

100% not dual boot, comes with a Ubuntu sticker too. It's common in Thailand not to have any OS, this has always been easy for me to remedy, but this new approach has thrown me.

Work is getting in the way of doing something for a sustained period of time, but in the process of getting a bootable partition and will see how it goes.

Thanks everyone.

 

Me too. I've offered my best GUESS. If it's not a UEFI-related issue, I wouldn't know where to look next. Good luck jimrod!

 

All done, used bootable gparted via flashdrive, changed the partition to NTFS and the rest was like shelling peas.

Smug now, but without everyone's support, I'd have been close to a straightjacket.

 

Congrats, and you're entitled to be a little smug! Ever since John Henry beat the machine, we all get a little enjoyment from subjugating our machines into a more compliant demeanor!