Will installing Linux on my Windows 7 laptop completely remove windows?

When you Boot off of the Linux CD it will ask you if you want to Install Linux or Try It.

If you select TRY IT all that will happen is that Linux will load into Memory and not the Hard Drive (Live CD).

if you choose to install it, Linux will ask you if you want to keep Windows or Remove it.

If you pick remove it, the Hard Drive will be reformatted and linux installed.

At least this is the way UBUNTU and ZORIN work.

You have a choice. If you want to keep Windows, it is best to first shrink Windows with it its own Disk Management (in Administrative Tools) to make room for Linux. Then make sure that you reboot Windows once, so it can check the disk and make sure everything is in order. Then install Linux on the unallocated space.

I dual boot Win7 or Linux from same drive on my PC. For my laptop with Win7 on hard drive I have Linux on a separate mSATA SSD card. And for my tablet PC which has Win7 Pro on tiny internal 32 GB SSD, I boot Linux from SD card.

Yes, it does (I recently installed Windows on an old Linux/Ubuntu laptop and no trace was left.

no - you have to format the hard disk to remove windows operating system before you can put Linux on it

make sure you know what your doing as you can seriously mess things up

And the same question comes up again