I've got Ubuntu 11.04, but I'm trying to go back to windows 7. I know this is supposed to be easy, but I've tried every method I can think to no avail. I've burned at least 6 Windows 7 disks that did not work, tried multiple ISO files (assuming that some were corrupt in some way) on both dvds and usb devices, and consistently get the same error. What happens is when I restart and boot from the usb/cd/dvd drive, windows begins to setup, but before it can start to install, I get an error saying that a cd/dvd/media driver is missing. It then gives me the option to insert a media that has the driver to install it. I read dozens of threads, and finally read from someone who had the same problem, and found that it wound up being because of his SATA drivers, but I have been unable to to navigate Ubuntu well enough to know if this is true, or where to get SATA drivers. Any ideas/fixes I should try?
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edit: I am trying to replace Ubuntu, not dual boot both OS's together.
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Your problem has nothing to do with Ubuntu. I had the same problem when installing windows 7 onto a SATA HDD with USB. Some possible solutions I have found includes
- If you are installing with CD, burn ISO with the slowest speed
- If you are installing with USB drive, when it asks for driver, click Cancel. Once you are at the welcome screen, insert the USB drive to a different USB port. Then click
Install Nowto install.
You may also first try installing the ISO you have on a virtual machine, just to make sure it is not corrupted.
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Probably trying to install from a USB 3.0/3.1 port.Windows doesn't usually have the drivers for those.Try installing it from a normal USB port
If you are 'going back to Windows-7' this implies that the computer was originally supplied with Windows-7. In that case you should ignore Ubuntu and use the Windows-7 installation CD/DVD or the Windows-7 recovery CD/DVD that was supplied with the computer. If you do not have such a CD/DVD you should ask the retailer for one or contact the computer manufacturer for support. The manuals supplied with the computer should explain how to reinstall Windows-7.
I thought this would be an Ubuntu issue because that SATA driver was recommended for Windows 7 64bit, but I am running Ubuntu, so it naturally did not work.
When you boot the Windows-7 installation CD/DVD you are not running Ubuntu. The presence of bootable Ubuntu files on your hard disk (HDD) has no relevance, because your computer boots from CD/DVD not from HDD.
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With Windows 10 I had the same issue installing from USB. Remove stick and plug into different USB port. X out of the installation so it brings you back to the install/repair screen and try again. It moved through without issue for me.
I was having this same problem trying to install a Windows 10 ISO with any of several USB drives (16 and 32GB) on a Surface Pro 4 (which unfortunately has only one USB port, a USB 3 one, ruling out @wei-shi's answer).
The solution in my case was rather than copying the ISO straight to the drive, instead to create a 5GB FAT32 partition on there, mark it bootable, then copy the files from the ISO into that. This booted perfectly and the installer finally made it to the next screen.
On Linux this can be done roughly as follows:
There are probably easier tools to do this or ways to achieve it from a Windows installation, but it's hard to know exactly what they'll do whereas this is nice and simple, in that way at least. All I know is when I tried this method on a whim it worked.
Good luck!