HELP WINDOWS XP

[Mumia W.]

On 08/04/2008 10:46 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Kim Briggs wrote:
>> On 8/4/08, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> 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
>> [snip]
>>>  a new one?" and folks are giving out instructions to build a light bulb factory.
>>>
>>>  It is a simple question with a simple answer.  Not everything is rocket science.
>>>
>> Hi EG,
>>
>> The point people are making is that the question shows some ignorance
>> about what is happening on a computer.  Using an operating system, you
>> install and uninstall various programs.  You can't use an operating
>> system, from the same drive, to uninstall itself.  People are trying
>> to figure out what the person is talking about because, as it is
>> written, it doesn't make much sense.
> 
> His question made perfect sense to me...
> 
> He said...
> 
> 1.  Don't tell me a complicated list of things to do.  He said he doesn't 
> want to hear "you have to press ESC"..."run fsck"..."do this, that, and the 
> other".
> [...]

It needs to be complicated for a very simple reason: his Windows 
partition might still be salvageable, and so we don't want to advise him 
to do anything that might delete his Windows partition--even if it's 
simple to do.

But to find out where his Windows partition is located, we need to ask 
some questions, and we need him to learn more about computers than he 
wants to know right now. As many of us already know, installing Windows 
and restoring personal data from possibly non-existent backups is *far* 
more difficult than using "fixmbr" to restore Microsoft's 
master-boot-record, so please let the helpers continue to query.