[Ubuntu-SG] Help un-install Ubuntu 7.04 for temporary

[Maung Myat Thu @ Billy Aung Myint]

On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 11:08 +0800, Kerwin Khu wrote:
> Hi Marthen,
> 
> On 8/13/07, Marthen LT <marthenlt at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Please help me, how to un-install Ubuntu 7.04 from my computer (due to
> > some very urgent thing) who have dual boot Windows XP Professional and
> > Ubuntu 7.04
> >
> > For your info, I create a partition to store Ubuntu's linuxswap &
> > /ext3 (root "/").
> >
> > I wonder also, is it possible to remove the ubuntu boot loader, so
> > during machine start up no more prompting to select which operating
> > system will be load?
> >
> > If you guys have an url or article for my referrence, i will be gratefull.
> >
> 
> A quick google search turned up this page:
> http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p18.htm#If_you_are_about_to_uninstall_Ubuntu
> 
> Basically it's a 2-step process
> 1) Restore the Windows bootloader. You can do that with Windows XP
> install disk (Recovery Console -> then "fdisk /mbr")
> 2) Delete the Ubuntu partitions ( / and swap ). These will be unusable
> in Windows unless you format them to something else (FAT32 or NTFS).

Just to add a small note , instead of fdisk , there is also a command
called "fixmbr" in the recovery console. As usual , google helps with
these links. 

1) http://askbobrankin.com/fix_mbr.html

Cheers!!
billy

> 
> Details in the link.
> 
> Hopefully you will want to try Ubuntu again some time soon.
> 
> When I was doing my search, I came upon a number of people who seem to
> have trashed their PC's while trying to uninstall Ubuntu ... as a
> result of which they now have a bad impression of Ubuntu. That can't
> be a good thing.
> 
> Regards,
> Kerwin
>