Trying to reinstall windows on asus eee pc 1005HAb

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  1. cmg65

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    I have an Asus external dvd drive and when i insert the disc that came with the EEE pc and attempt to reformat it give me an error. I don't know what the error exactly is because when it tried to output a log file it doesnt have a destination to put it. I tried switching the directory to the common letters that are associated with a USB flash drive ( D, E , F) but it doesnt work. Whats next to get this done?
     
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    reformat what, the disk or the netbook hard drive?
     
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    the netbook. I want windows back but the disc supplied by asus is giving me the described problem
     
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    can you boot off that disk properly? don't reformat yet as have to delete the windows partition 1st not the recovery partition which is on the hard drive.
     
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    Ubuntu was installed on the entire disk so I don't think the recovery partition would still be there.
     
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    are you certain? did you select advanced options so can delete the present partition so you can make new partition & format it before windows is reloaded onto the hd?
     
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    Uing the install disc? It doesn't give me that option
     
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    what does it give you?
     
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