Removing Ubuntu

[Bill Kunert]

I have Ubuntu installed on a different disk than XP. It is using Ubuntu's bootloader to dual boot. I'd like to uninstall it but when I'm booted into XP the disk with Ubuntu doesn't show in My Computer. Can I use my XP disk to rebuild the MBR so it will show when I'm in XP and then just format the disk?
Thanks for any help.

 

[agibby5]

If they were on separate disks, you might be able to boot Windows XP since the MBR on the Xp installed disk would still exist. The boot loader for Ubuntu was on the disk that it was booting from. You might be able to get away with changing the boot disk in the BIOS.

Since you're posting, I'm assuming that you're trying to boot XP unsuccessfully without the Ubuntu disk as the main boot disk in teh BIOS? If that's the case, the MBR on the XP disk will likely need to be rebuilt. You should be able to boot to your XP install disk, enter the recovery section and use 'fixmbr'. If that doesn't work, try going back into the recovery section and doing 'fixboot'.

All this was under the assumption that you weren't talking about using the same disk with different partitions.... 🙂

 

[Brazen]

boot to your xp cd, get to the recover console and run these two commands:

fixboot
fixmbr

 

[Nothinman]

I have Ubuntu installed on a different disk than XP. It is using Ubuntu's bootloader to dual boot. I'd like to uninstall it but when I'm booted into XP the disk with Ubuntu doesn't show in My Computer. Can I use my XP disk to rebuild the MBR so it will show when I'm in XP and then just format the disk?
Thanks for any help.

It doesn't show because there's no drive letter assigned since Windows can't read the filesystem. In Disk Management you can see them all just fine.