I'm on Linux, trying to go to Windows, and I'm stuck, in something incredibly simple, thats for some reason, extremely overpoweringly tedious...

Can you help me leave? Linux doesn't,

UEFI or MBR?
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/.../hh825112.aspx
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2

When computer starts to load it maybe able to use bios by pressing a key and selecting what to boot with.

As root type fdisk -l to see all your partitions. If you see EFI System then you are using UEFI/EFI. The EFI partition is the boot partition.

If you want to install windows and you have no free space, use GParted program to move data around so you can resize the linux partition and create new partitions with your free space.

If the UEFI windows boot is not being recognized you'll have to reinstall it using this: https://hetmanrecovery.com/recovery_...oot-loader.htm

I use reFind with elilo and it found all 3 OSs on my PC (1 linux, 2 windows versions).

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Nope! Not enough information...

Do you mean:

a.) you're running a Linux system and you want to install Windows?

b.) You're running a dual booted system and you want to exit Linux and run Windows instead?

If a. Assuming you've got a legal copy of Windows whatever-version, Boot the installation DVD and install Windows. The format of your hard drive may be important here.

If b. To exit Linux and boot Windows you need to use the power "Restart" option. (You don't mention which Linux distribution you're using which would have been helpful, so I'm not going to try to explain how, though you could probably find something useful from the bottom left "Menu" on your desktop, assuming there is one.)
During restart you should go through the Grub menu which allows you to select your Linux distribution or Windows (if you set up a dual boot.) Linux is usually the default.

If neither of these options, you're going to have to supply a much better explanation of what the hair-oil you're doing:

Play Bonny!

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just enter the bios of your machine when it first boots. often one of the function keys do this you only have a matter of seconds. change the boot sequence in your bios so DVD/CD boot is highest.
Eject the cd tray and put the disk in, save and exit the bios editor.
when you reboot the windows installation procedure will begin you will loose your ability to access linux on that machine.

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The OP really doesn't say what s/he's trying to do. It could be a "dual boot" problem.

Now, if you want to "run two operating systems," hands down the way that I would do it is with a virtual machine. VM monitors such as "VirtualBox" are free and run on many platforms. You can install your second-OS on your VM of choice (and you can have as many VM's as you want ...), and you don't have to change one single thing about "the host."

Most of the web-sites that you visit today are actually running in a VM (or, a container). This allows hosting companies to buy very big, very powerful hardware that is far more than any one site or application is likely to need, then use VM technology to "divide it up" among many subscribers. This also allows for quick recovery if one piece of physical hardware goes dea..;q@&j4qwaj ;dfjs

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Help you with WHAT??? All you've said is "stuck in something incredibly simple", but don't actually bother to say what it IS. Want to go to Windows? Great...then your best bet would be to post on a Microsoft forum and/or call Microsoft support and get them to help you. You pay for MS Windows...loading it is their problem.

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As others have already said, you need to provide more information regarding your problem
before anyone can help you.

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if it's dual boot windows first linux second, it's far easier for all involved

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The problem that I'm having is that the results from the software that I’m using are not providing consistent results.

What I would like to see on this laptop is anywhere from ‘XP-7, installed and run from the hard drive. Eventually going dual boot. 10 came ‘pre installed by default.

Not familiar with ‘VM but from the sounds may be a usable alternative.

Thank you for the suggestions and I appreciate your responses.

Q: What am I going to do, on Windows, that I can’t do, on Linux?
A: Nothing.

Q: What am I going to do, on the Internet, in Windows?
A: Email, Google, YouTube, Internet Radio, Feature Length Movies.

Q: Why Linux?
A: I like the journey. In short, I hate voyeurism, I love the voyage.

Q: Why not?
A: Everything looks, and feels, like unfinished yesterdays, that hints, that I’m the only issue.

Annoying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thats when I stop asking questions.

Why does this feel like an application/resume?

--- Devices ---

Acer Aspire One Cloudbook 14 (AO1-431-C8G8) Laptop

Android Coolpad (3320A) Phone

--- Software ---

Ubuntu 16.10 currently installed, went from 10 to Elementary to Ubuntu to something else to Ubuntu.

Disks (the application) – Where my problem lies and arrived. (Aggravation stimulator)

Unetbootin, Etcher, etc… (Linux)
Rufus (Windows)

--- BIOS ---

F2 enters BIOS, F12 enters boot selection.

EFI, and something and Legacy boot mode options present. Not sure bios version.

--- Installation Media ---

8GB USB drive (the laptop does not have a CD/DVD disk drive)

Internet downloaded ISOs (Getintopc.com)

Long story short, Disks use to work, now it doesn’t for some reason, Unetbootin works sometimes, and never yet with an Windows ISO, not really friendly with NTFS and or non Linux distros. I can get the image on the USB but I’m having trouble getting it to boot. Final attempt was using a 2GB prebuilt FreeDOS memstick image ( https://www.chtaube.eu/computers/freedos/bootable-usb/ ), flashing that to the
USB, and then copying i386 (XP) folder to USB. Now, for whatever reason, I’m getting crazy errors, formatting and restoring the image, to the USB drive...

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JUST A HELPFUL NOTE:
a) Windows 10 is NOT an easy thing to dual-boot, as a matter of personal experience in some netbooks and laptops.
b) Windows 7 is easier to dual-boot with any distro of Gnu/Linux.
c) Windows 10 dominates from the BIOS and UEFI boot levels through a colluding firmware code.
I can be mistaken in other cases, but as an old man that is my recent frustration.

To ease the trouble it is best to avoid a Windows 10 before working on a dual-boot. Anyway once a newbie becomes proficient in his Linux/distro he will enjoy better than his experience with the M$ OS.

Hope that helps.

m.m.

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Way better info here than #1 or
Hope you have a way to back up microcouched-losedough$ and\or did... it's probably there and fine you just need practices? Retry installing, GRUB goes MBR and other top distros may help ie Debian, Slackware or Fedora &c... have fun!

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You can get any of thousands of viruses, be the source of attacks on other systems, have your bank account emptied...
The only safe thing you can do is unplug.
Get viruses, attacks, loss of identity, money...
and have to pay as well.
It is also much safer than Windows.
Everything actually works as you want, not as what someone else dictates. YOU are in control, not Microsoft.
That sounds more like Windows refusing to work.

NTFS is reverse engineered - And Microsoft can and will make changes that are incompatible, and undocumented, and possibly even deliberately engineered to be incompatible.

Just normal Microsoft behavior.

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"VM" stands for "Virtual Machine."

Using tools such as VirtualBox, which is free and backed by one of the largest software corporations in the world, you can literally run a copy of Linux "in a window." The Linux installation believes (well, it knows better ...) that it is running in a piece of hardware all to itself.

The technology is very heavily-used around the world, therefore it is quite fast and very stable.

You can install a VM monitor on your existing Windows installation, without touching it, and run Linux (or another copy of Windows, or anything else that you please) in any one of any number of VMs that you care to create.

That's why I would never bother with "dual booting." Just get a second or an external hard-drive, say, and devote it to your Linux VM. (You don't have to do that: you can use space on your existing Windows file system...)

Or, you can "turn the tables" and put Win-doze where it properly belongs: in a VM that runs under Linux!

But what you no longer have to face is, "an either/or choice." You can have both worlds at the same time.

Oh, yeah, and you can "make snapshots," too. Save the present-state of the whole machine and revert back to that state at will. VM is a highly-developed and very cool technology.

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