HELP cant reinstall windows after running linux

tom91x91

tom91x91

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I gave linux a try for a bit but it was infact **** (for my uses, not saying its a bad OS) so i loaded my windows 7 disc back in, set boot from cd, went through instructions up to the point where it says "where do you want to install windows" Theres disc 0 partition 1 286.8gb and disc 0 unallocated space 11g (was not there before i installed linux).

Now it wont let me install on the hardrive saying:

"Windows cannot be installed to this hard disc space, windows must be installed to a partition formatted as NTFS." Then something about this is an unrecognised partition. EDIT: just seen it says 0.0mb free space under this one, wtf? this is the main one, did i need to reinstall linux somehow?

The other one lets me click next but its only 11.3gb and windows says it needs 16.8gb reccomended.



Any suggestions? Or should i just install on that 11gb partition?

thanks
 
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partition 1 will be formatted to a linux filesystem.

either you need to format it to NTFS or delete it and create a new NTFS partition to see if you can get that 11GB back.
 
What do you mean by that?

But anyway, thanks deadite :)

On another note, is there any reason it would be stuck at 0% on expanding windows files for the past half hour? Tried 3 times now it just freezes.
 
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