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cumulus.james

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So I got pissed off with Windows 8 so downloaded Linux Fedora. Trouble is I wasn't thinking straight and I need Windows for most things. Now I can't get Fedora off my machine.

I have a Windows 7 disc which if I remember correctly used to be unpacked by winRAR but fedora can't open it.

I have also tried to use DBAN to wipe the hard drive to start again but it won't boot from the DVD.

Any ideas?
 
I would think a genuine Windows 7 disc would be bootable wouldn't it, rather than have to be unpacked? If it's an ISO image file, you'd need to right click on the ISO file and select Write To Disk, from within Fedora, to burn a bootable disc. The same would go for DBAN, to make a bootable disc to wipe the drive. Best to use DVD-R or DVD+R discs (depending on the icons on the side of the DVD burner), rather than DVD-RW discs

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US...Burning_ISO_images_to_disc-Burning-Linux.html

Most PCs bring up the boot options menu if you drum tap on the F12 key when powering up the PC I think.

If you can get Windows 7 or 8 back on the machine, it sounds like Microsoft will release Windows 10 for free later in the year.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2873...a-free-upgrade-for-windows-7-and-8-users.html
 
Have you got a name of the file (and the .xxx extension) that it's trying to read, for us to look up and see what might be going on?

Apologies if I'm being basic - the process for reinstalling Windows 7 can't be triggered whilst using Linux as such. With a bootable Windows 7 DVD, the PC needs to be powered up from cold and the booting process interrupted by pressing a key, in order for the PC to read the DVD before it reads the internal hard drive (i.e. the C drive) . In this instance, Linux would only be useful in the preparation of burning a bootable DVD.

Let us know what the make and model of your PC is, so we can find the exact boot menu key on the web. It may be F12, but it might be ESC, F9 etc..

Have a look around the outside of the machine for the genuine Windows 7 badge, and note down the 25 digit product key on it. With that, you can download a full ISO copy of Windows 7 from this link, if it was a retail edition. Assuming Fedora just isn't letting you right click on ISO files at all.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-recovery
 

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