I have a laptop and i installed ubuntu on it a while ago, now I wish to go back to Win11.
I created a boot usb using the media creation tool on a windows pc, i plugged it in my laptop and opened bios.
Changed the boot order and made the usd to bootup first.
When I setup the windows settings (language and stuff) it asks where I want to put my win11 on the laptop. The inbuilt ssd of the laptop does not show up, only the usb with the iso shows up.
How can I make the ssd show up in windows setup?
ext4 is the default filesystem format in Ubuntu, but Windows is expecting a hard drive that is formatted as NTFS. Otherwise the Windows installer will stop and not continue, because it does not recognize your laptop's ext4 formatted hard drive. Windows 11 also strongly prefers and recommends using the GPT (GUID Partition Table) partition style for installations.
To solve this problem boot the laptop to an Ubuntu live session from the live USB that you used to install Ubuntu. You may need to set the USB flash drive as first in the boot sequence in the BIOS, so your laptop will be able to boot from it. Open the built-in GParted partition editor application, and format the entire hard drive as NTFS.
Now your laptop is ready to install Windows. When you boot the Windows 11 installer after formatting the laptop's hard drive as NTFS, the Windows installer will recognize it and the Windows 11 installation will proceed normally.
