[jorgeleeb]

i just bought windows 7 and im trying to install it from my laptop running ubuntu 9.04 linux. when i get to the install stage i get the message "windows setup cannot find a location to install temporary files". i believe this is because my hard drive partition is not in NTFS format, therefore windows cannot attach its files to it. so my question is, how do i remove ubuntu AND make my hard drive NTFS format. i plan on removing ubuntu and performing a clean install of win7, i just need a format that is NTFS first!! thx!!

[punkboy15]

You will most likly have to zero out the drive before installing win 7. I have run into that in the past with ubuntu were I get all kinds of weird errors when I tried to reinstall windows. Zeroing the drive always works for me. There are numerous free tools available to do this. A popular one is killdisk. Many HD manufacters have there own software for the drives as well that is usually free. some however only work with that brand drive others it does not matter.

Good Luck

[tbramamam]

If you have Ubuntu using your whole hard drive, it is most likely formatted with a Linux format (ext2 for instance). Microsoft operating systems will not read any format that is not a Microsoft one (FAT and NTFS). So you are correct that this is the reason that the installation program can't copy the files. You should have gotten to a place in the install that shows what disks and partitions setup can find. You should have the option there to delete the Linux partitions and create a new Windows partition.

[Mumbodog]

Highlight the partitions one at a time and hit the "delete" icon

[jorgeleeb]

thx for the replies, but i cant get to the partition screen when installing 7. however, i tried to put vista back on and when i got to the partition screen there, i simply was not able to format the drives "windows was not able to format the selected drive". i believe i need to use an external program to wipe everything clean and start anew. im gonna try gparted and the one punkboy suggested. big thanks!