removing Ubuntu

[Maxime Alarie]

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Maxime Alarie 
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-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Colin Law
Sent: 27 September 2010 16:40
To: Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions
Subject: Re: removing Ubuntu

On 27 September 2010 21:29, Maxime Alarie <malarie at processia.com> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Colin Law
> Sent: 27 September 2010 16:07
> To: Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions
> Subject: Re: removing Ubuntu
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> On 27 September 2010 18:26, Maxime Alarie <malarie at processia.com> wrote:
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>> I used to to this with a DOS boot disk and the command: fdisk /mbr
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>> This will  clear your MBR and Linux wont be seen again.
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> I strongly advise against the above suggestion.  clearing the MBR
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> (Master Boot Record) will make your PC unusable until you re-install
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> Ubuntu.  I do not know whether Windows will still work when you
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> re-install Ubuntu.  You will certainly not be able to use Windows in
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> the meantime.
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> Colin
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> Strange, I used this often to remove a dual boot Windows/Linux.  It worked
> everytime without any problem.  Maybe I was Lucky?

No, I was wrong, sorry.  I was confused by the fact that you said that
it would _clear_ the mbr, whereas in fact I think it restores it back
to the windows default so that Ubuntu becomes not available.

I am still not sure it is what the OP wants to do, however, which is
to replace Ubuntu Netbook with Ubuntu Desktop.  I do not see the need
to touch the MBR, just install the desktop version over the netbook.

Colin

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Hi Collin,


Im pretty sure the OP wants to remove his netbook installation and replace it with a Desktop Installation.  The fixmbr tool should  clear the MBR of Grub, and defaults back to Windows,  without erasing his Linux partition.  However, he would have to reformat his partition during the Desktop Installation.


Best regards,