uninstallig ubuntu

[joe.s-b]

How do I remove Ubuntu which I do notr need on,my mani computer

[rojash]

You don't - you just install a different operating system

[ChuckFickens]

Joe, you may want to re post this question and actually state that it is a dual boot ubuntu/xp system you are talking about.

I presume you now have two partitions on your hard drive, one XP one Ubuntu...

what do you want to do, with regards to the partitions... keep it as two or "stretch" the XP one to fill the entire hard drive.

[trish432]

If there is only ubuntu on there, I found that I couldn`t just boot from xp disc, format, and install xp.
I had to use f disk, if i remember correctly,to remove ubuntu comlpletely, first.

[ChuckFickens]

did you read my answer trish?

[joe.s-b]

Thank ChuckFickens. I have both XO and Ubuntu un thesame disc. I like Linux but don't need it on my main computer as I now have it on a laptop which I can use on my standard monitor.

[joe.s-b]

Sorry. Chuck. Should have read XP

[trish432]

Sorry Chuck, read your answer wrongly, thought you were asking if it was dual boot. Reading through it again, it seems you already knew that.

[chrisrob]

Am I missing something here?
I have XP and Ubuntu on dual boot. I did remove (and later reinstall) Ubuntu by going to control panel, add and remove programs and removing it as if it were a windows prog. No prob.

[fo3nix]

There is one central issue here: how did you install Ubuntu?

This is also in answer to chrisrob's question.

There are two main ways of installing Ubuntu:

1) The 'proper' way. Since it is an OS and not just another Windows program, it goes on its own partition(s) on your hard drive, separate to Windows.

2) With Wubi. This is a simple tool that effectively installs Ubuntu into a file on your Windows machine, keeping an image of your Ubuntu install.

With 1) you remove the OS by removing that partition. I would suggest using a program like Partition Magic in Windows to remove the Ubuntu partition, then stretching your Windows partition back so you gain the space. Alternatively, you can use GParted, which is on the Ubuntu live CD (any many other Linux live CDs).

2) With Wubi, I understand (though have never done this myself), that Ubuntu simply appears as a program under Add/Remove, which you can remove as usual. This is what chrisrob has probably done.

[joe.s-b]

Hello chrisrob. I don't know if you are missing something but my control panel is as add and remove programs does not show Ubuntu.

[joe.s-b]

My Ubuntu was installed from cd and is obviously a separate partition. So now I know wjere to look, I think

[joe.s-b]

Thank you for all your comments but I think that I will give up as I cannot find a satisfactory method of uninstalling Ubuntu without using my legal Windows cd and I have no wish to go through the tedious procedure to ensure that I lose nothing. I don't want ubuntu on my main computer as it is a nuisance to me but I will have to put up with it.. Strangely enough I have always been happy with windows and it's quirks