Uninstalling OS

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jpoveda

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Hi there can someone please help me to uninstall Ubuntu from my computer. I recently installed and I don't why but it installed it two times. Is there an easy way to uninstall it?

Help please. Thank you.
 
Are you sure it installed twice?

You just need to boot off something like GParted, and kill the extra OS partition and then merge it with your current one if it did indeed actually install twice.
 
And if I want to uninstall Ubuntu, and have only windows??? How do I uninstall it??? Do I have to format the partition where it is installed or something like that???
 
Formatting the partition which holds Ubuntu would essentially remove it.

Depending on how the installation was done, you would likely still have Grub as your bootloader, though.
 
If you want to have Windows and not the Ubuntu,simply boot with the Windows CD,delete ALL partitions and then install Windows on unpartitioned space that uses your entire hard disk drive.Windows will automatically create the partition on that UNPARTITIONED space after you select it.If you are going to put XP,be sure to rather use the SLOW format instead of the QUICK one.

You can also completely format your entire hard disk drive by using the KILL DISK DOS tool before performing any kind of Windows installation.But you dont have to of course.The above solution will do just fine.





Cheers!
 
What version of windows are you running?

Right click "Computer" on start menu and click "Manage". Then click "Disk Management" under the Storage tab. Right click the partition with Ubuntu on it and click "delete". Then you can extend the "Windows" partition.
 
I'm running WIndows XP at the moment. This problem that I have is on my work's computer I want to uninstall Ubuntu and leave only Windows XP. Here in my house I run Windows XP and Ubuntu 10.10 on my desktop. In my laptop I only use Ubuntu 10.10
 
jpoveda said:
I'm running WIndows XP at the moment. This problem that I have is on my work's computer I want to uninstall Ubuntu and leave only Windows XP. Here in my house I run Windows XP and Ubuntu 10.10 on my desktop. In my laptop I only use Ubuntu 10.10
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So do you have a Bootloader? Must be the ubuntu bootloader? So can you boot into windows okay? If so download MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition and install it. Select the partition that ubuntu is on and delete it!

http://www.partitionwizard.com/download.html

Edit: For future reference there is no such thing as "uninstalling an os"
 
boot to a DOS command prompt, get DOS boot disk at www.bootdisk.com and type this

Code: 
fdisk /mbr

It will wipe GRUB or whatever boot loader you had installed out of the boot sector.
 
Okay I have a problem now. I remove Ubuntu from my computer but now I have problems with the grub. It reads that there was no partition found. Now I dont now how to boot to Windows. Can you help me?
 
jpoveda said:
Okay I have a problem now. I remove Ubuntu from my computer but now I have problems with the grub. It reads that there was no partition found. Now I dont now how to boot to Windows. Can you help me?
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Don't you hate that?? When you remove an OS from your PC, it almost always messes up the MBR, since people almost always take it off wrong. I couldn't tell you how to fix the MBR, but it's a pretty common problem, you shouldn't have trouble googling it.
 
Just a shot in the dark but you can also try re-formatting the harddrive by wiping everything out and installing a new OS. You should copy your personal files on a DVD Data Disc or other before reformating the harddrive and installing a new OS.
 
jpoveda said:
Okay I have a problem now. I remove Ubuntu from my computer but now I have problems with the grub. It reads that there was no partition found. Now I dont now how to boot to Windows. Can you help me?
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I'm pretty sure that if you boot the Windows install cd and choose to repair the instillation it will fix the boot manager.
 
salvage-this said:
I'm pretty sure that if you boot the Windows install cd and choose to repair the instillation it will fix the boot manager.
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Unforcenately it will not.
He has 2 choices:

-completely format the HDD and make a fresh OS installation
-repair the MBR using the Recovery Console from the CD or DVD-ROM disk from your Microsoft Windows OS version/edition




Cheers chocolate milk drinkers! =D
 
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