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happeharkore

happeharkore

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I recently installed ubuntu 6.06 i believe. I have windows xp on my C drive, and gave my D drive to ubuntu. I was wondering how i would go about getting ubuntu off my d drive, get the dual boot screen to go away, and get my D drive back. anyones help would be greatly appreciated.
 
boot off a windows xp cd and choose R to go into recovery console, select your windows installation and put in your admin password (if you set admin pw)

then type this

fdisk /mbr

reboot back into windows and go to Control Panels, Administrative Tools, Disk Management, select the "D" drive and format and partition it in windows.

that should do it
 
I don't think they could have put it any simpler...

Try it in steps:

1. Put your Windows XP CD in the drive and boot your pc.
2. Choose to boot from the CD.
3. Select R to go into the recovery console.
4. Select your current Windows Installation.
5. Enter your admin password if you set one.
6. Type: fdisk /mbr (this removes your dual boot screen)
7. Reboot the machine, remove CD and boot into Windows.
8. Go to Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Disk Management
9. Select the D drive.
10. Format the drive and partition if required. (this removes your Ubuntu install)
 
it wont let me format, it doesnt say any file system before i do it. i right click on the drive and chose format, leave everything how it is, click ok twice and it says "the format did not complete succesfully" a second later.

(edit)

after i restarted to try to format again, the second hard drive doesnt even show up under my computer. but when i check device manager, the second hard drive is still there...
 
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I'm guessing it's still in ext3 format.

Easiest way is to probably download the gparted Live CD from here:
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php (get the latest version)
It's only 50mb.
Burn it to CD and an image.

Stick it in your machine and reboot to run from the CD.
All you will have to do is select your D drive and choose to format as ntfs or fat16/32 - whatever you want.
 
it should at least show up, you have to right click the drive itself under disk management and select initalize.

Either way, your problem is fixed so its no longer an issue
 
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