Removing Grub....

Avi Greenbury avismailinglistaccount at googlemail.com
Wed Sep 23 08:02:56 UTC 2009


On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:14:52 -0400
Michael Comperchio <mcmprch at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am trying to figure out a way to remove Ubunbtu, and the Grub boot 
> loader... 

Delete the partition into which you installed Ubuntu, the swap
partition, and any others. Do what you will with the resulting free
space.

Though the presence of grub wont affect the workings of windows, the
absence of its configuration file will make future adjustments to its
workings somewhat difficult. Run the setup utility off the Windows disc
to 'fix' the bootloader, and Windows will rewrite its own bootloader
over grub.

Bear in mind that without additional drivers, Windows cannot read
partitions other than NTFS or FAT. If you've any data on a linux
(ext2/3, reiserfs etc.) partition that you want to keep, it's worth
copying it to a native windows filesystem, rather than working with it
on ext3. Also, windows cannot maintain non-MS filesystems.


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