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dual boot
Monday, February 2, 2009 at 5:26 am
Posted by glen
(51 messages posted)
for better or worse, installed Ubuntu to try it out now I find I cannot uninstall
it.
I put it in a different partition to C drive to be safe.
the uninstall icon of Ubuntu does`nt work nor does add/remove programe of windows,
grasping at straws tried Ccleaner & that not work.
anyone who can help out there & I will be grateful.
TIA
Glen
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re: dual boot
Monday, February 2, 2009 at 6:22 am
Posted by Ricer46
(22014 messages posted)
Other operating systems are NOT Windows applications, you shouldn't have expected
to be able to remove them like any Windows app. Just delete the files on the drive,
and edit boot.ini to remove the option.
On Monday, February 2, 2009 at 5:26 am, glen wrote:
>for better or worse, installed Ubuntu to try it out now I find I cannot uninstall
>it.
>I put it in a different partition to C drive to be safe.
>the uninstall icon of Ubuntu does`nt work nor does add/remove programe of windows,
>grasping at straws tried Ccleaner & that not work.
>anyone who can help out there & I will be grateful.
>TIA
>Glen
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re: dual boot
Monday, February 2, 2009 at 7:34 am
Posted by alex
(2471 messages posted)
"I put it in a different partition to C drive to be safe" so why not buldoze that
partition?
On Monday, February 2, 2009 at 5:26 am, glen wrote:
>for better or worse, installed Ubuntu to try it out now I find I cannot uninstall
>it.
>I put it in a different partition to C drive to be safe.
>the uninstall icon of Ubuntu does`nt work nor does add/remove programe of windows,
>grasping at straws tried Ccleaner & that not work.
>anyone who can help out there & I will be grateful.
>TIA
>Glen
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re: dual boot
Monday, February 2, 2009 at 10:18 am
Posted by geek9pm
(1030 messages posted)
Before installing Linux or any other OS onto a Windows XP system you first must have
the following:
1. A full backup of the system partition, using a 'clone' program like Ghost or Acronis.
http://www.acronis.com/
2. A method of repairing the MBR of the boot drive. This can be the FIXMBR tool in
the recovery console of the standard XP install disk.
3. A method of restoring the size of the Windows XP opartition.
Of course, the MS Backup utiity can be used, but you need to have two hard drives.
And if you had two hard drives your would have installed Linux on the second drive
without the first drive present. That would avoid the problem you know have.
Don't mean to sound rude, but the problem is really beyond the scope of this forum.
Find me, or someone else, on any of the Linux forums and they can help you get your
system back. In the simple case, method 2 above does the trick and that is a XP thing.
Geek9pm
Squawk!
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