Id love to know more about this 35 euro laptop; that's so cheap, is it made of cheese?? :tongue:
But to loosely answer your question in case you're feeling stuck; yes you can do this!
- You need to create a partition (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/create-a-partition-in-linux) in your hardrive for Windows to be installed on. (This splits your hard drive into 2 pretend hard drives)
- Then you'll need to make a bootable USB installer (https://itsfoss.com/bootable-windows-usb-linux/)of Windows.
- Finally, you'll need to boot into your installer and go through the Windows install (select the partition you created to install to, I think you have to do Custom/Advanced install when Windows asks how you wanna install, you'll need to allow windows to reset the partition too)
Be sure to do backups or important files beforehand just in case you mess something up! Finally, when you have Windows installed you might wanna try run AME (https://ameliorated.io/) to remove some of the tracking and junk!
Good luck :ozwomp:
it started oozing purple liquid until it was completely covered in it and didnt turn onWHAT IN THE GOOSEBUMPS????? Real halloween movie stuff right there. Insane, I heard a story like this a long time ago, but I think it was LCD ooze...
Id love to know more about this 35 euro laptop; that's so cheap, is it made of cheese?? :tongue:
But to loosely answer your question in case you're feeling stuck; yes you can do this!
- You need to create a partition (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/create-a-partition-in-linux) in your hardrive for Windows to be installed on. (This splits your hard drive into 2 pretend hard drives)
- Then you'll need to make a bootable USB installer (https://itsfoss.com/bootable-windows-usb-linux/)of Windows.
- Finally, you'll need to boot into your installer and go through the Windows install (select the partition you created to install to, I think you have to do Custom/Advanced install when Windows asks how you wanna install, you'll need to allow windows to reset the partition too)
Be sure to do backups or important files beforehand just in case you mess something up!
Good luck :ozwomp:
no matter what disk i choose it says its currently in use and that i probably shouldnt repartition it.....
WHAT IN THE GOOSEBUMPS????? Real halloween movie stuff right there. Insane, I heard a story like this a long time ago, but I think it was LCD ooze...
Anyways to try and help! If I were you I'd make a Linux live boot USB! It's fool-proof, I'm an idiot and it's easy for even me! You'll need this (https://pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/) and a Linux distro. Puppy linux is the only one I've had in the past, and you can run it completely on an old and low quality USB! (Maybe create this at the library, it doesn't take long and you seemingly don't have a PC at the moment.) From there, you might wanna wipe the computer ENTIRELY to get rid of any junk or viruses you have. Then use another drive or CD and reinstall Windows 10, or whatever OS you choose. With this step you might not need the Linux step bc the installer for W10 can format the drive. I included the Linux step, because live USB sticks are nice to have around when things go south! Lots of computer professionals like to use live USBs to get into otherwise busted computers with unusable operating systems.
Another troubleshooting step, some computers have a built in option to reinstall the OS. I only had to use it once, but see if your system has an option such as this. Here's (https://www.minitool.com/backup-tips/asus-recovery.html#) a summary of how it works on an ASUS machine.
I wish you luck! (And wish that computer professionals can find this thread and help you more than I can!!!) Worst case scenario, you can at the very least use Linux on the daily with the pen drive. I did that on my old laptop for a while, the results are surprising. Smaller Linux distros are designed for the worst of the worst machines. It'll at least help you get by until you can fix your laptop for good!
Hello, a bit late on the input but if you want to try again at a later time, i have some tips.
First thing, Pop_OS, to me, looks like an horrible start to linux since it's very different
compared to Windows. Mint seems closer to Windows 10.
Second thing, it may be a bit too advanced for someone who's just discovered the experience that a
version of Linux can offer without knowing its depth but you can try something like Distrobox (https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox) to
install Grapejuice in a container running a different distribution if your native one doesn't work.
To put it simply, you can have all the software that all the versions of Linux have to offer with
only having one true version installed, it's a really useful project.
I don't know what kind of wizardry you use to make Windows 10 work well with a 35 euro
computer ! Hope you'll be able to reinstall Windows 10 and maybe try again in a few years if Roblox
decides to fix their mess !
Have a good day ! :dive:
(...) Windows 10 installation media (...)
i dont know what that isSometimes it's helpful if you search things yourself :tongue:
i'd think i was a troll too :(I don't think you're a troll :4u: I think you are trying to do something that's way outside your knowledge and you're really struggling with it, but I am always impressed by someone who's willing to try things at the edge of their limits!
and you clearly have the desire to get it done
anyways i forgot what we were talking about so im posting this without even checking
i literally only want to go back to windows to play roblox. i'm aware of wine and grapefruit but the wine available on the kde app store doesn't even run?If you only wanted to switch to windows for that, steams proton tool is way better than wine for running games on linux. If you dont have steam, https://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ (https://repo.steampowered.com/steam/)
If you only wanted to switch to windows for that, steams proton tool is way better than wine for running games on linux. If you dont have steam, https://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ (https://repo.steampowered.com/steam/)
Once in steam, go to the library and add the roblox launcher to your steam library and launch it from there to use proton instead of wine.
oh, yay! i also miss mspaint.... it's closed source methinks but do you think there's like, any mspaint emulators? for linux?OOh that would be cool but idk about using actual mspaint on linux but i found this (https://apps.kde.org/kolourpaint/) which might scratch the itch
i dont know what that is!!! i dont know how to get that!!! i dont understand why no one's telling me what it is or how to get to it!!!!!!!
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i acidentally uninstalled the. OS. guys?
i thought i had finally did it. and then guess what happened,
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it gave me some error and i searched for an answer and none of it worked,.
i'm aware of wine and grapefruit but the wine available on the kde app store doesn't even run? i tried to install it through the terminal and didn't work either
I've only seen this issue on newer laptops. Did the laptop come running Windows 10 or Windows 11? If the latter, that's likely the culprit.
As for the entire goal, yeah, a clean install is best. Windows borderline refuses to install as the second entity in a dual-boot. It's always recommended to install Windows and then your Linux distro, to make life easier.
Where did you get the install ISO? The best spot is here (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO), that is, assuming you have a spare machine to write the ISO with(check your local library!).
if, by this, you mean you ran just `wine`, yeah, that won't work. wine does nothing without an additional binary. last I checked, roblox has started blocking wine when it detects it. grapejuice seems to also be struggling with this, as the project's README currently states "🔴 Roblox not work currently. A new feature causes system integrity checks to fail on Wine. The result of this is that your client will crash after a couple of minutes of play time."
I hope some of that's helpful, and godspeed to your windows install attempts.