HELP WINDOWS XP

[Ed Greshko]

Rashkae wrote:
> Ed Greshko wrote:
>> Leonard Smith wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 22:41 -0400, Jake wrote:
>>>> Ok, I've been through this so many times, "you have to press ESC", "Is
>>>> there", well no, its not, can anyone just PLEASE tell me how to
>>>> UNINSTALL Ubuntu, so I can get on Windows XP and re-install Ubuntu to
>>>> dual boot, Please do not tell me that I don't have to uninstall,
>>>> because the fact of the matter is, I really need do, so Please help
>>>> me.. 
>>>>
>>>> Help Greatly Appreciated, Jake
>>>>
>>> I'm assuming Ubuntu is booting fine. If so, you will need to do some
>>> checking in order to verify that you still have WinXP on your system.
>>>
>>> 1. Go ahead and post your menu.lst file. You may have a line commented
>>> out that is preventing the Windows XP option from showing.
>>>
>>> 2. Open a terminal and type 'fdisk -l'. Copy the output and post it.
>>> This will list your existing partition information. You can also use
>>> 'gparted' to view it in a gui, but it may not be installed on your
>>> system. (to install type 'sudo apt-get install gparted' in a terminal).
>> I don't get it....
>>
> Your right, you don't get it.

And, frankly, you've no idea what a rhetorical statement or question is...

> There is no magic "Undo the Operating System Installation" Button that
> will magically return his pc to how it was.
> 
> someone already suggested rm -rf, which would do exactly what the OP
> asked, and would leave the OP with a computer that won't boot at all.
> Not exactly helpful now is it?
> 
> If the problem is you can't boot into an OS, 'uninstalling' the OS that
> is currently working isn't very wise.

For some people it is the fastest way to get things running again.  Some 
people will spend hours and hours trying to fix the mess they made because 
they didn't know what they were doing.  And even if they basically fix 
it...it still isn't quite right and they end up with a crippled system and 
try to limp along complaining about it.

So, the simple answer is *start over*.

> And as for Installing XP, how?  If the computer is a name brand, he
> won't even have an XP install CD, just a recovery CD, which will wipe
> out any data.  Again, probably not terribly helpful.

You mean you don't do backups?