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I am stuck on Ubuntu with little knowledge. I want to go back to windows 7 but my hard drive has just one partition with all my data and Ubuntu on it. I have a bootable windows 7 stick. How do I get back to windows 7 without losing my data? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

Charlotte
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  • Backup your data, boot & install windows, then restore your data from backups. You've provided no specifics that are helpful, and we don't support windows. We don't know what Ubuntu product you are/were using, what release of that product, what file-system you had on it, but most file-systems used by Ubuntu are **not** usable by windows, thus backup & restoring data from backups is usually easiest – guiverc Jul 09 '23 at 13:27
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    Does this answer your question? [How to resize partitions?](https://askubuntu.com/questions/126153/how-to-resize-partitions) – user68186 Jul 09 '23 at 13:43

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All data will be erased during the install process of the new Operating System (OS). Formatting the partition is a mandatory step of migrating from Ubuntu to Windows.

Any data that you wish to retain must be moved to some other media before beginning to install the new OS.

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