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25-Feb-2006, 05:43 AM #1
Solved: How do I unistall Ubuntu??
I have installed UBUNTU in my PC but now I need to unistall it as I'm using WIndows all the time anyway. Can anybody help? I don't know a lot about this OS so if you can you'll have to tell me what to do step by step.
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25-Feb-2006, 01:34 PM #2
First you'd have to get rid of GRUB. I won't explain how cause at the moment I can't remember the command, and my personal favorite way would require a KNOPPIX CD and a few moments so I can find where I put the command lol!!

Then, once you remove Ubuntu, and if you have partition magic just format the thing and give the free space back to windows.
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25-Feb-2006, 05:27 PM #3
Boot from a MS-DOS floppy, and at the command prompt type: FDISK /MBR

Grub is gone.
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27-Feb-2006, 05:25 PM #4
Thank you but can you start again. I don't understand. Sorry.
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Start from where? Go to AllBootDisks or BootDisk, download a boot disk image creation file. Execute the file with a blank floppy in your drive, and it'll create an MS-DOS boot floppy. Boot the floppy, when it gets to the command prompt, type:

FDISK /MBR

This will remove GRUB from the MBR.
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ok thanks a lot x
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