HELP WINDOWS XP

[Leonard Smith]

On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 18:18 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> On 08/06/2008 07:56 AM, Rashkae wrote:
> > Doug Pollard wrote:
> 
> >>     I think linux would do well to provide an easy way to erase the 
> >> program so some would be less reluctant to install it.  I have heard 
> >> several people say they installed it and had a heck of a time getting 
> >> rid of it.
> > 
> > Getting rid of Ubuntu, or any other OS, is trivial. Alas, it needs to be
> > done from the other system.. that is, if you want to remove Ubuntu, you
> > do it from Windows.  If you want to remove Windows, you do it from
> > Ubuntu.  the same goes for any other Operating system.  The irony
> > therefore is, "How do I remove Ubuntu" is not a ubuntu question.
> > 
> > Windows does give an easy to to remove Ubuntu and restore Windows.  But
> > in this case, the OP needs to get back into Windows.  (And preferably,
> > do so without nuking his hard drive and going through the pain of
> > re-installation.)
> > 
> > 
> 
> Actually IMO it would be nice to have an actual Ubuntu uninstaller of
> sorts. For example & using a real situation: I have hardy installed on
> one drive, gutsy on another. Both work well but now I'm finished testing
> with the gutsy on drive 2 (sdb1/sdb5). I can certainly reformat sdb,
> install something else on it, etc., but that wouldn't take care of
> cleaning up /etc/fstab or /boot/grub/menu.lst.
> 
> 
> 

Never heard of an un-installer for an operating system. The OS is so
basic to the operation of the machine it's just not
practical.  Cleaning up fstab and menu.lst are easy enough since they
are simple text files.

It seems to me that some are looking at Linux as though it is another
application that can be installed and un-installed if you don't like it.
Even though most OS installs are point an click nowadays, installing one
is still a bigger deal than installing an office suite.

I suppose one could create a bootable CD that would perform the
necessary tasks automatically, but the possible configurations are
endless, especially when you start dual booting. Even with some kind of
OS un-installer I would be afraid it would nuke the whole system.