Hey everyone!

I got my desktop with dual boot (Kubuntu & W11) and wanted to know if I ever go fully Kubuntu, am I able to reinstall Windows again?

I don’t have a disc, but my desktop came with it pre-installed. Is it tied to my Live account?

  • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You can download the windows iso from windows webpage, but if I remember correctly you have to do it in Windows since it depends on a downloader program. Then you should store the windows cd-key just in case, you shouldn’t need it and there are ways to recover it from Linux if this is an OEM machine, but it’s always better safe than sorry.

    With all that being said, a bit of unpopular opinion now. Why do you want to do that? I kept a windows partition for years because I never knew if I would need it, it was only when I realised I hadn’t touched Windows in months that I felt comfortable removing it, and at that time I didn’t cared if it could be reinstalled. The reason I’m asking is because if you have to ask about it you probably never installed windows on a machine, so you don’t know how to do that, and it’s a lot more complex than Linux because Windows needs all of the drivers to be manually installed to work properly, and while Windows 10 is a bit better in finding those drivers automatically it’s still a Pain in the ass to ensure it got the correct things and wait the thousands of reboots to apply all updates because updates are cumulative in Windows.

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      1 year ago

      You can download the windows iso from windows webpage, but if I remember correctly you have to do it in Windows since it depends on a downloader program.

      It only forces you to use the media creation tool on Windows, everything else it gives you a link to download the ISO.

      I kept a windows partition for years because I never knew if I would need it, it was only when I realised I hadn’t touched Windows in months that I felt comfortable removing it

      I’m exactly the same.

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        1 year ago

        everything else it gives you a link to download the ISO.

        Then that’s new, you had to jump through some hoops to get the iso before, I remember just giving up and going to my sister’s computer to download it back then.

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      1 year ago

      You can get the Isos from the installer page too installer is just there for people who don’t know how to/don’t want to flash it themselves

    • omeara4pheonix
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      1 year ago

      The media creator runs perfectly in wine. But isos are easy to find as well.