i recently installed mint 17.1, i dislike it as i was a windows user :/ could someone help me get back to windows please. i did not dual boot, ive tried deleteing partitions but failed. pure newbie here no experience with linux. im not really stupid though, but if someone could do a step by step instruction it would help massively. THANK YOU !!!

Go to the website of the manufacturer of your laptop and loof for what you need. You may well need a USB stick or a CDROM but the website ought to help you.

ive tried changing the bios to boot from the dvd drive because i have a windows 8.1 instal disk but it just boots straight to mint. my manufacture is toshiba i do not understand what you me by go to them ?

Go to the web site and search.

i did this but no results

From your Mint system, run these commands:
You should then be able to boot your Windows DVD (make sure UEFI & Secure Boot are enabled & Legacy Boot or CSM is disabled).

reece@reece-SATELLITE-C50-A-1DV ~ $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1
dd: failed to open /dev/sda: Permission denied
reece@reece-SATELLITE-C50-A-1DV ~ $



terminal

sb enabled and lb/csm disabled. still nothing its a lvm mint17.1

this is the first thing i tried buddy.

someone trust worthy with the knowladge to achieve this ? ill give remote access to my system

What went wrong?

reece@reece-SATELLITE-C50-A-1DV ~ $ fdisk
Usage:
fdisk [options] <disk> change partition table
fdisk [options] -l <disk> list partition table(s)
fdisk -s <partition> give partition size(s) in blocks

Options:
-b <size> sector size (512, 1024, 2048 or 4096)
-c[=<mode>] compatible mode: 'dos' or 'nondos' (default)
-h print this help text
-u[=<unit>] display units: 'cylinders' or 'sectors' (default)
-v print program version
-C <number> specify the number of cylinders
-H <number> specify the number of heads
-S <number> specify the number of sectors per track

reece@reece-SATELLITE-C50-A-1DV ~ $

then what ?

You're trying to execute 'dd' as a regular user, but 'dd' can only run as a root user, either by issuing "su -" or "sudo dd .......".

reece@reece-SATELLITE-C50-A-1DV ~ $ sudo fdisk
[sudo] password for reece:
Usage:
fdisk [options] <disk> change partition table
fdisk [options] -l <disk> list partition table(s)
fdisk -s <partition> give partition size(s) in blocks

Options:
-b <size> sector size (512, 1024, 2048 or 4096)
-c[=<mode>] compatible mode: 'dos' or 'nondos' (default)
-h print this help text
-u[=<unit>] display units: 'cylinders' or 'sectors' (default)
-v print program version
-C <number> specify the number of cylinders
-H <number> specify the number of heads
-S <number> specify the number of sectors per track

same thing ?
i give up i guess im stuck with linux -_-

Are "Secure Boot" and "UEFI" enabled in your firmware (BIOS) settings?

If your disk has a GUID partition table then you will need to have UEFI mode & Secure Boot enabled; if it is an MBR-type disk then the `dd` command will wipe the bootloader.

If your Mint system is booting in UEFI mode then you will need to delete the entry in your motherboard's NVRAM using the `efibootmgr` command I gave (prefix it with `sudo`).