[ugmofo04]

hey every1 my names jack new to techguy

few days ago my pc specs were like this

partition 1: NTFS (windows operating system) 39gb
partition 2: ext3 (ubuntu) 8gb
partition 3: swap (ubuntu) 1gb
partition 4: NTFS (all of my documents videos and music) 150gb

this was after i was currently running windows as my only operating system (working perfectly) and decided to try out ubuntu. afterin installing it i decided i didn't like it so i put in my windows CD and deleated the 1st 3 partitions and combined them into a 49gb partition, formatted it and installed windows on it.

partition 1: NTFS (windows) 49gb
partition 2: NTFS (all docs videos and music)150gb

this worked fine, it formatted correcly and then started copying the setup files onto partition 1, but then after it restarted it wudnt see that windows was there and wudn't continue the installation. it would just go back to asking if i wanted to install from the CD again. i was installing windows xp (no service pack) but i have done this many times with this CD and hasnt stuffed up yet

could some1 please help me out??

[johnebadbak]

what a pity you didn't just delete the ubuntu partitions. in your windows system using disk management. then used the free space for a second ntfs partition..
then if you have a floppy drive and get hold of a win98se system boot disk boot off it and at the prompt A: fdisk /mbr the grub loader would be removed and a new master boot record written so you can boot windows..

You may still have to rewrite the master boot record to rid the hdd of the linus boot loader.

[Elvandil]

If you can boot into the XP Recovery Console, run fixboot and fixmbr.