Uninstall Ubuntu

[Olav]

Op zo, 26-12-2004 te 12:08 -0800, schreef Philip:

> I have a fiend

:)

That's not f(r)eudian, is it?

> who has been unable to run ubuntu as a stable distro He installed
> Warty (several times) from the mailed out distro. His machine will
> "hang" at irregular intervals where the mouse quits responding and
> only his numlock key appears to work. He has to power down his machine
> to get back to Windows/Ubuntu.

Uh-oh. Sounds like something's wrong there.

Why not try fix it?

> He now wishes to remove Ubuntu completely and repair his boot sector
> so it no longer dual boots. Is there a defined proceedure for such?

Depends on how you got it to dual boot in the first place. If it's the
standard GRUB bootloader that comes with Ubuntu, it will probably be
installed in the Master Boot Record of the hard disk. You will have to
replace that with the Windows bootloader. If it is Windows 2000 or XP
this involves booting from the XP installation CD into "Recovery
Console", and using the command fixmbr.

After booting in Windows you can use the Windows tools (Disk Management)
to delete the no longer wanted Linux partitions. Or you download
SystemRescueCD which comes with QTParted, to have a nice graphical
partition manager à la Partition Magic: http://www.sysresccd.org/ 

> Thanks in advance. Ubuntu works for me on several different machines
> of varying capabilies and I have no complaints.

Well, I actually had some complaints (scsi tape drive and a few other
things) - and then I switched back to Fedora. But I will definitely try
Hoary when that becomes the official release, because I like the Ubuntu
philosophy.


-- 
Met vriendelijke groet,
Olav.