If I install FreeBSD is there a way back to Windows?

Buy a fresh hard disk drive and swap it for the existing one. They're not that expensive, you can test that FreeBSD is compatible with your actual hardware and reverting is simply a matter of swapping it back.
 
If you have reasonable network connectivity, then you can "rent" a FreeBSD instance from cloud providers such as Google, Amazon or Microsoft. I know that at least Amazon and Google have ready to go FreeBSD installations. And both have a "try before you buy" and a "amateur minimal usage" program that will make it free. Like this, you don't have to bother learning how to install a virtual machine on your laptop.
 
you may actually want to install to a usb key and run it off there.. then check the dmesg and pci hardware to make sure everything is working properly .. things like wifi cards or other mutli purpose devices in laptops may not actually work ...

I would defiantly check out the laptop compatibility chart before doing anything at all.

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Laptops
 
So, have been using FreeBSD for running pfSense. One of my computers (a mini-PC purchased on Amazon) I no longer need for pfSense and I want to go back to Windows. The recovery USB that I created, before installing FreeBSD is not able to restore Windows. I tried a fresh install of Windows, but this failed due to incorrect partitions. I think that I need to wipe the drive and re-install compatible partitions. How would I do this? I do not readily see a way to open this mini PC to replace the hard drive with a Windows one. Thanks.
 
2nd the motion for a secondary disk.
Windows is best installed from FDISK/FORMAT where it owns the entire disk.
I presume that FBSD works best as a native install as well.

I do the two-disk thing with my HP laptop.
I have very specific needs for Win 8.1 and Win10.
So I swap disks when needed.
 
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