I can assist with transitioning from Linux to Windows. Let me know what you need help with!
I can assist with transitioning from Linux to Windows. Let me know what you need help with!
I chose Linux Mint on my Dell Precision T5600 with Windows already installed. Eventually, I needed to switch back to Windows because the Wi-Fi driver wasn’t working. I removed the Linux partition while using Windows and tried booting from GRUB after rebooting. Since I’m not familiar with Linux, I attempted to reinstall it and remove Grub and the partition, but faced several issues. After many attempts, I finally got into Linux Mint without a Wi-Fi driver. Now I’m stuck on my main PC—can only access Windows, and I can’t use Ethernet. I’m considering backing up my data and starting over.
Linux might affect or damage your Windows partition, and vice versa. I'm not an expert, but I heard that to revert things, you'd need to adjust the partitions carefully. Starting over would be a good idea—get your files back and install Linux on a different drive. Using virtual machines for testing Linux could help later. I might be mistaken, but this seems like the advice I received. Even fixing partitions in Windows doesn't solve the space issue.
Yeah, I see lol. I have some flash drives to make a fresh install of windows. But I'm getting a ramdisk memory error. I have a windows 10 iso image that I downloaded from Microsoft, but attempting to use that on USB to install Windows, gave me the ramdisk error. I really don't mind recovery any data at this point. I do have access to Linux mint still. That is still installed and boots straight to there.
I'm unsure if it will function, but it's worth trying. Error code 0xc0000017 in Windows 10 - Community support.
Discover the steps to delete Linux and set up Windows on your device (microsoft.com)
If you have the Linux USB installer, start from there to boot into a live USB and wipe all your laptop's partitions before switching back to Windows USB. Windows doesn't support the ext4 filesystems that Linux uses.