Please help! Desperate!

[peteyboy22]

Hello people of the forum, i'm 15 years old, (don't judge me.. well not yet)

i just got my new disc of ubuntu 9.04 in the mail today, so i was gonna dual boot it with vista on my laptop (no big deal)

ok so i got it dual booted, everthing went fine except ubuntu 9.04 wasn't working right, cpu was 100% the whole time, messed up screen resolution, and it was running at an unusable speed (idk what was wrong with it, and didn't feel like screwing up my computer... did anyway)

so i THOUGHT, i'd load back into vista, and remove the ubuntu partition (35 gigs from a 160 gig hard drive)..

so, i'm in vista, (working perfectly fine) i'm in the disk manager, and i removed my ubuntu partition (aparently i should have researched this first) after i removed it, i restarted my computer and i got an error that said "blah blah blah grub error 22"

so i did something wrong, so please, can someone help me get back into vista!? all my stuff's still there (well just my programs, luckily i put on my files on and external hard drive, for stuff just like this)

my recovery disc is a partition on my hard drive. so that doesn't work.

i have a hq/compaqu persario (more numbers here i forgot, it's the highest one)
2 gigs ram, navida graphics, amd processor

(no clue why ubuntu was slow, i don't have intel)


and i have a hacked xp disc, how do i use that to get back into vista??

is the installation disc the same things as a boot disc?

did i get this error because ubuntu was above vista on the boot list?

 

[sshaggy]

I did the same mistake once. I installed Red Hat Linux over Vista in dual boot. However, I removed Red Hat by formatting the partition from vista disk manager. As a result, computer wont boot next time. Some kind of grub error.

So do this. Reinstall Ubuntu. Then u should be able to boot into both vista and ubuntu. Then insert ubuntu disk and boot from the disk. In the boot menu there is an option for removing the Ubuntu. I dont remember exactly, and I was using Red Hat. But it should be something similar. then u should be able to remove it safely and be able to boot into vista next time.

WORD OF CAUTION: Make sure that u install Ubuntu in the same partition in which it was previously installed. U know I didnt mentioned one thing. I installed it in the wrong partition, and as a result it removed the windows itself and as a result all the data was lost. If u really want to format ur computer, dont care about this step.

One more, i would recommend u to google for some relevant information, cause i am just giving u an estimate solution of what I did, and that too based on memory. I hope this would work.