In case of you screw up your linux and wanna get rid Ubuntu Linux boot loader…. here is the remedy
Windows XP:
- Set your BIOS to boot from CD or DVD drive
- Put your Windows XP installation disc into your CD or DVD drive
- Boot up your computer and start from CD
- With your Windows CD. When asked, choose “repair” and launch fixmbr. This command replaces GRUB with Windows bootloader.
- Reboot again and you have done.
Windows Vista :
- Set your BIOS to boot from CD or DVD drive
- Put your Windows Vista installation disc into your CD or DVD drive
- Boot up your computer and start from CD
- Select a language, a time, a currency, a keyboard or an input method, and then click Next.
- Click Repair your computer.
- Click the operating system that you want to repair, and then click Next.
- In the System Recovery Options dialog box, click Command Prompt.
- Type Bootrec.exe /FixMbr, and then press ENTER.
- Reboot your computer
Regain HDD Space (from ubuntu partition) using Disk Management (Preloaded with Vista or XP)
To start Disk Management:
- Log on as administrator or as a member of the Administrators group.
- Click Start, click Run, type compmgmt.msc, and then click OK. OR right click on my computer icon and choose Manage
- In the console tree, click Disk Management. The Disk Management window appears. Your disks and volumes appear in a graphical view and list view.
- Right click on the partition you want to remove and choose Delete
- Then, you can Create new NTFS partition and assign letter for it.
I decide to remove root and swap partition, combine it and format it in NTFS
Complete. My ex-linux partition now become My Document partition.
the fixmbr command doesnt work for me: the ubuntu record still appears in the boot screen…what can i do to remove it, so the system will lod on to win xp directly??
Comment by dennis — August 5, 2008 @ 8:57 am |
you may select direct load from system properties->advanced->startup and recovery, then select drop-down menu to booting.
maybe it will help.
Comment by mshjohorean — August 23, 2008 @ 2:53 pm |
If I don’t need any files in Vista can I just use a system restore disk? Will Ubuntu be removed properly and the space be free?
Comment by rajend3 — December 20, 2008 @ 1:29 am |
u great dude .. i installl ubonto today
and this stupid bootloader ubonto dont stop load u r besttttt
Comment by maor — January 15, 2009 @ 7:50 pm |
THnaks, I needed this info and it helped. Very simple way of getting rid of Ubuntu and Grub. Here is another tip, you can use any XP boot CD to do this…not just the one that may or may not have come with your PC.
Comment by Jason — January 23, 2009 @ 3:22 pm |
One problem:
After installing the XP CD and choosing repair, it asks for a password – which it will not accept.
Apparently this is a problem related to a program which at some point, modified the passwords in the registry. Microsoft’s solution is to download and create a 3.5″ setup floppy that will somehow fix the problem. Since I don’t have a floppy drive, I’m just gonna do a fresh install of the OS and toss out every Ubuntu Linux CD in my home. I know there are a lot of things going for Linux, but an OS that has this much trouble with wireless adapters just isn’t ready for consumer use IMHO.
Thanks for the help though.
Comment by Paul — March 1, 2009 @ 2:08 pm |
What are you talking about? I’ve never had a problem with Linux not working with my wireless adapter. I’ve always just installed it and everything working perfectly. Maybe it is because both of my laptops are asus? idk why that would matter but ive never had any problems with it.
Thanks for this information. It is exactly what I have been looking for.
Comment by drew4237 — March 3, 2009 @ 8:26 pm |
What operating system do i click to repair?
Comment by JoshF81 — March 4, 2009 @ 8:40 am |
i sucessfully merged and split ntfs partitions with data on them with gparted live-cd.
but do make a backup in case something does go wrong.
Comment by pete_p — April 15, 2009 @ 7:53 pm |
This was perfect. I removed Linux smoothly with this.
Comment by oddbee — May 15, 2009 @ 10:41 pm |
wow, thank you dude this is exactly what i needed. i installed Ubuntu for someone else on their hard drive in my computer. like an idiot, i forgot that Grub would be installed as well. that reminds me that i need to put Grub on the other computer. anyways, thanks again, i hope this works.
drew4237 – actually, a very popular wireless adapter included in many laptops and desktops (Broadcom 43xx) is infamous for causing problems. the 3rd party driver doesn’t always work. only the recent Ubuntu (since Intrepid, I believe) fixes this without a problem. any other distro requires you to use ndiswrapper and such to fix the issue, sometimes unsuccessfully.
Comment by submachine0 — May 16, 2009 @ 8:56 pm |
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Thanks so much it worked
Comment by aatkco — September 25, 2009 @ 3:46 pm |