It worked! Re: removing Ubuntu from laptop

Ricardo C O Freitas ricardocastanho at uol.com.br
Thu Dec 21 03:27:09 UTC 2006


On Wednesday 20 December 2006 23:27, Jamie Dobbs wrote:
> > Hi!
> > I know how to remove any Linux from a desktop but, I need to
> > remove Ubuntu from a laptop without floppy!
> > "fdisk /mbr" is ok when I have a floppy!
> > Is there any other way to remove any linux installation totally without
> > this
> > command?
> Insert Windows XP CD, boot from it, go in to the recovery console when
> prompted. Choose windows installation, eneter administrator password. Then
> type the command fixmbr which will remove the grub loader.
> Then you can boot in to windows and remove the Linux partition using the
> windows disk tools.
> Hope that helps.

Thanks a lot!

It worked! 

Ricardo

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