Starting it over

[Aaron]

I recently decided to reformat my os and start from scratch. I own an Acer
Travelmate 2420 and run Windows XP on it. I created the startup CDs and have
done this once before. Since I had all my important files backed up I
decided to check out Ubuntu since I've heard wonderful things about it. I
installed it and tried it out. It was nice except I'm not that
technilogically advanced to fully understand and use it. So I decided to go
back to XP. However after putting my startup CDs in Windows XP will not
load. It appears that I have loaded part of Windows XP and still have the
Ubuntu OS on there as well. The only thing that is running correctly is
Ubuntu. I am a confused person who just wants his Windows XP working again.
Can anyone help?

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Did you delete the partition and create a new one?

 

[philo]

I recently decided to reformat my os and start from scratch. I own an Acer
Travelmate 2420 and run Windows XP on it. I created the startup CDs and have
done this once before. Since I had all my important files backed up I
decided to check out Ubuntu since I've heard wonderful things about it. I
installed it and tried it out. It was nice except I'm not that
technilogically advanced to fully understand and use it. So I decided to go
back to XP. However after putting my startup CDs in Windows XP will not
load. It appears that I have loaded part of Windows XP and still have the
Ubuntu OS on there as well. The only thing that is running correctly is
Ubuntu. I am a confused person who just wants his Windows XP working again.
Can anyone help?

Just set your bios to boot from the cd
then delete the Linux partitions and start over

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was 3/4/2008 1:55 PM, and on a whim, Aaron pounded out

I recently decided to reformat my os and start from scratch. I own an Acer
Travelmate 2420 and run Windows XP on it. I created the startup CDs and have
done this once before. Since I had all my important files backed up I
decided to check out Ubuntu since I've heard wonderful things about it. I
installed it and tried it out. It was nice except I'm not that
technilogically advanced to fully understand and use it. So I decided to go
back to XP. However after putting my startup CDs in Windows XP will not
load. It appears that I have loaded part of Windows XP and still have the
Ubuntu OS on there as well. The only thing that is running correctly is
Ubuntu. I am a confused person who just wants his Windows XP working again.
Can anyone help?

Ubuntu probably used the whole disk for the file system. Resize the
partition:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome

so XP has room to create one of its own.

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[Aaron]

I think it did. I went to that link however couldn't figure out how to
resize the partition so that I can reformat everything.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Can you simply delete the partition?

 

[Aaron]

I'm trying to find out how to delete the ubuntu partition and reinstall
windows xp. I'm sure you can delete the partition I just don't know how to.

 

[Aaron]

so if anyone can lead me to a thread, post, link, or simply explain how to
delete the ubuntu partition that would be most helpful. I'm sorry that I'm
double posting I'm just in a hurry to get my laptop functioning again.

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was 3/4/2008 3:17 PM, and on a whim, Aaron pounded out

I think it did. I went to that link however couldn't figure out how to
resize the partition so that I can reformat everything.

It should be under the section Resize/Move. But if you want to remove
Ubuntu altogether and only have XP, you should be able to boot with the
XP CD and delete the Linux partition, and then create a new partition
for XP. If not, there are alternatives:
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/index.htm

I believe Bootit NG has a free 30 day trial, so you can create a CD of
it (maybe on another machine) and then remove the Linux partition.

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[Gord Dibben]

You being in a hurry means it's OK to double-post and waste others's time?

Don't bother apologizing.

If you were sorry you wouldn't double-post because you obviously know it is
frowned upon.

By double-posting you are like a little kid waving his arms and yelling "pick
me, pick me 'cause I'm more important than the others"


Gord

 

[Aaron]

It's funny that I got a quicker response to double posting than for my
computer problem. Thanks for the tsking Gord.

 

[Aaron]

Thank you Terry, you've been a huge help.

The date and time was 3/4/2008 3:17 PM, and on a whim, Aaron pounded out


It should be under the section Resize/Move. But if you want to remove
Ubuntu altogether and only have XP, you should be able to boot with the
XP CD and delete the Linux partition, and then create a new partition
for XP. If not, there are alternatives:
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/index.htm

I believe Bootit NG has a free 30 day trial, so you can create a CD of
it (maybe on another machine) and then remove the Linux partition.

--
Terry R.

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[Telstar]

Gord is a crass idiot.

You being in a hurry means it's OK to double-post and waste others's time?

Don't bother apologizing.

If you were sorry you wouldn't double-post because you obviously know it
is
frowned upon.

By double-posting you are like a little kid waving his arms and yelling
"pick
me, pick me 'cause I'm more important than the others"


Gord

 

[VanguardLH]

in message

I recently decided to reformat my os and start from scratch. I own
an Acer
Travelmate 2420 and run Windows XP on it. I created the startup CDs
and have
done this once before. Since I had all my important files backed
up I
decided to check out Ubuntu since I've heard wonderful things about
it. I
installed it and tried it out. It was nice except I'm not that
technilogically advanced to fully understand and use it. So I
decided to go
back to XP. However after putting my startup CDs in Windows XP will
not
load. It appears that I have loaded part of Windows XP and still
have the
Ubuntu OS on there as well. The only thing that is running
correctly is
Ubuntu. I am a confused person who just wants his Windows XP
working again.
Can anyone help?

Go into your BIOS to make sure the boot drive order is: floppy, CD,
hard disk.

Go to www.bootdisk.com to get an image to lay onto a floppy to make a
bootable DOS diskette. Boot using the floppy. Run 'fdisk /mbr' to
get rid of the boot manager (GRUB) that might've been installed by
Ubuntu. Remove floppy. You will need another host to do all this.
There are also some .iso images to create bootable CDs that have
similar utilities but, again, you will need another host to do all
this. Whether you use a bootable floppy or CD depends on whether or
not you have a floppy drive.

Boot using the install, restore, or recovery CD for Windows. Delete
all partitions and then create one. Then have the setup program
format that partition and continue the install.

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was 3/4/2008 5:35 PM, and on a whim, Aaron pounded out

Thank you Terry, you've been a huge help.

You're welcome Aaron.

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