How to erase Linux?

[Phil Pinkerton]

Could also boot fron the ubuntu cd and use fdisk to remove all the
partitions and start over booting from the Windows install cd.

On 3/6/07, Dan Steeves <dan at thesteeves.org> wrote:
>
> Gianmarco Leone wrote:
> > Anyway, i don't think it will be enough. You should remember of grub.
> > You have to recover first your MBR (using fdisk /mbr in the dos prompt,
> > i suppose), and then resize your windows partition to take the entire
> > disk.
>
> I made this mistake once.  Decided I wanted them back so I reformatted
> my Linux partitions as ntfs from Windows.  Grub lost its info from my /
> partition and I couldn't boot into anything.  I fixed it by
> re-installing Ubuntu into a very small partition, then setting Win XP as
> my default OS in Grub.
>
> If you know how to recover your MBR that sounds like the best option.
> If you don't, then you can always re-install Ubuntu to a very small
> partition, and reformat the other ones from Windows like I did.
>
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