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[Jason Corfman]

I'm trying to remember how I did it... (I had a laptop from the office 
that I had dual-booted with Ubuntu for my own use, and then when the 
office gave me a newer laptop, my old laptop went to someone else, so I 
had to take Linux off)

Find the Windows XP disk and boot up using the repair console. When you 
get to the DOS prompt, type "fdisk /mbr".

Then reboot into Windows, right-click on "My Computer" and select "Manage".

Click on "Disk Management".

You should see a list of all the partitions on the harddrive, even if 
Windows doesn't recognize what they are. You should have a list of 
partitions at the top and a graphical representation of your harddrive 
below. You will want to use the graphical representation, because there 
aren't any tools associated with the list (why? I don't know... ask Bill 
Gates). Unless you have created a separate partition, you will probably 
want to delete all of the partitions to the right of the C drive. Just 
right-click on each and select "Remove Partition" or "Remove Logical 
Drive" or remove whatever it says.

Then you will want to follow the directions here: 
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325590/en-us That will enlarge your C 
drive to take up the unallocated space you freed up in the last step.

Reboot your computer. Windows should perform a diskcheck during the 
reboot. I suggest you let it.

That should do it. You should be back to a Windows XP computer with one 
drive without Ubuntu.
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Jason "Corfy" Corfman

Simón Ruiz wrote:
> The way I'd do it (in the unfathomable event that I would want to)
> would be to boot back up to the Ubuntu Live CD and run the partition
> editor manually to delete the Ubuntu partition and re-grow the default
> OS's partition to fill the disk (or just reformat the Ubuntu partition
> as a filesystem that OS can use, which would be simpler). This isn't a
> trivial operation if you don't have a solid grasp of basic
> partitioning.
>
> The method I would have suggested electing if you'd mentioned being
> unsure about wanting Ubuntu to be a permanent addition to your
> computer would have been to use the Wubi installer that comes on the
> Hardy CD, as that is meant to be easily installed and removed from
> your original OS.
>
> However, give Ubuntu an honest shot and I won't be too surprised if
> you end up asking us how to remove your original operating system. ;-)
>
> Take care!
>
> Simón
>
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Thomas <sstarchaser08 at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Ok thanks,, I installed it and I'm using it....I'll let you know how I like
>> it...... next question>>>> If I start having problems, how do I remove the
>> operating system from my computer? Reformat that partition??? Thanks..
>> tom
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