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[Tom <question79225@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #79225 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/79225

Tom proposed the following answer:
Also it's going to be tough to do anything to the partition that you are
currently booted into.  Try booting up a LiveCd session of ubuntu and
then you can do what you like to your hard-drive.

When you change the format to fat32 or ntfs then your data will, of
course, be wiped out.  A better alternative would be to resize the
partition down to about 15Gb, or as small as you can without cramping it
too much and then create a new partition to put Windows on.  I would
make the new partition a fat32 partition and then let the Windows
installer reformat it to ntfs.

During the Windows install it will also wipe the partition so copying
your data onto the Windows side AFTER install is about the best way.
Then you can boot into Windows, see how it looks and then wipe the
Ubuntu AFTER making sure that Windows works fine on your machine.  You
can then resize the Windows partition to fill the whole drive.

Note that a typical Windows install does not include any of the fancy
programs such as Microsoft Office, Nero Dvd Burner, codecs, decent movie
players, photoshop and so on.  Each of those must be bought, paid for
and installed separately.  Also a machine may need specific drivers for
different parts of yur hardware and some of these may be awkward to get
hold of.  Also you'll need to install antivirus, anti-malware, anti-
spyware and other security stuff.  Finally there's the updates which
requires multiple reboots.

Good luck with all this!
Regards from
Tom :)

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