Have lost windows xp ...?

[alavahalf]

I have a laptop which I was given ..Fujitsu Siemens V3515 .. it is absolutely immaculate and looks unused
As I already have a laptop, I thought I'd fiddle about with this as it's a spare.
It had xp on it ... ( I have no disks) ... I created a partition and loaded Ubuntu onto it with firefox.
It all worked fine, but when I started it today it said I needed to re activate windows.
After going through the phone call with microsoft everything seemed ok.
So I thought I might remove the partition which had Ubuntu on it, and reclaim the disk space as I have lost interest in Ubuntu.
Using disk management I deleted the partition with Ubuntu on it ...before you ask I checked which one I was deleting ... now when I try to re-boot it does'nt get as far as the welcome screen and just hangs on a blank screen ...
Any ideas on what I have done wrong..?

[Kos]

You'd do better posting this in technology rather than Travel !!

[alavahalf]

Each time I've tried to post in tecnology it posts somewhere else ... I think AB is having a flutter..!

[Huderon]

What you did wrong was to delete the partition with Ubuntu on it.

Ubuntu installs a boot loader called GRUB (it's the bit that gave you the option to run Ubuntu or Windows). GRUB is installed in the Ubuntu partition, and Ubuntu modifies the disc's master boot record (MBR) to use GRUB rather than the default Windows loader.

To fix it you can figure out how to reset the machine to it's original (out of the box) state (and for that you will need the manual and the original hidden partition that comes on most laptops these days), or you can reinstall XP from scratch, but you need and XP disc for that, or you can borrow and XP disc and follow the instructions on http://www.ehow.com/h...loader-from-dual.html

[Huderon]

Oh, I just looked at a copy of the manual on line, and it looks as though that machine came with a recovery disk and a drivers disk, so forget the first option. You are down to installing XP again from scratch which means getting hold of a copy of XP, or borrowing a disc and fixing the MBR