removing Ubuntu

[Tony Pursell]

On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 21:39 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> On 27 September 2010 21:29, Maxime Alarie <malarie at processia.com> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Colin Law
> > Sent: 27 September 2010 16:07
> > To: Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions
> > Subject: Re: removing Ubuntu
> >
> >
> >
> > On 27 September 2010 18:26, Maxime Alarie <malarie at processia.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I used to to this with a DOS boot disk and the command: fdisk /mbr
> >
> >>
> >
> >> This will  clear your MBR and Linux wont be seen again.
> >
> >
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> > I strongly advise against the above suggestion.  clearing the MBR
> >
> > (Master Boot Record) will make your PC unusable until you re-install
> >
> > Ubuntu.  I do not know whether Windows will still work when you
> >
> > re-install Ubuntu.  You will certainly not be able to use Windows in
> >
> > the meantime.
> >
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> >
> > Colin
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> > Strange, I used this often to remove a dual boot Windows/Linux.  It worked
> > everytime without any problem.  Maybe I was Lucky?
> 
> No, I was wrong, sorry.  I was confused by the fact that you said that
> it would _clear_ the mbr, whereas in fact I think it restores it back
> to the windows default so that Ubuntu becomes not available.
> 
> I am still not sure it is what the OP wants to do, however, which is
> to replace Ubuntu Netbook with Ubuntu Desktop.  I do not see the need
> to touch the MBR, just install the desktop version over the netbook.
> 
> Colin
> 

Why is everyone telling the OP to re-install, etc?

As far as I know (and have done myself) all he needs to do if he has the
Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 version of Ubuntu Netbook is to get to the login
screen, select his login, go to the Sessions menu at the bottom of the
screen and select GNOME. Job done.  He will have the the desktop version
of Ubuntu running.

Tony