Problems installing Windows 7 OVER ubuntu?

Question

Hi, iv recently bought windows 7 to install over ubuntu OS, but whenever i try to do this, it just takes me to an archive utility and says "an error occured while loading the archive" im not even sure its meant to install with an archive program in the first place. iv tried booting from cd/dvd but no results. please answer

thanks

Answer 1

Raw is correct, when you are going through the setup for windows 7 there is an option to show how to handle the partitions already on your drive. you simply remove any partition and let windows 7 allocate the space as necessary. it will also create a partition of about 100 megs and then the main working partition. if you are still getting errors trying that I would run a diagnostic on the hard drive.



and of course all of this as indicated by Raw is assuming that you are using a Store purchased copy of windows 7 and a MAC key provided with the disk. .

Answer 2

When you are trying to install are you clicking the upgrade button or are you using the advanced options? If you are clicking the upgrade option it may be trying to save any files you have such as pictures, videos, documents and it not be able to do that because how Ubuntu is set up. So try using the advanced option and if you want to use the full C drive and not have separate partitions(multiple drive letters) use the default setting for that option.

Answer 3

Just format the drive.