SOLVED! Remove Ubuntu 14.04 from Dual boot with win 7

HOSED

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I want to remove Ubuntu 14.04 from a dual boot system with win 7. I want to keep win 7 only for now. For anyone that has done this can you post link or brief explanation? (I have a full back of my win 7 partitions if needed: 350 MB system and 700 GB Windows C). I also have U 14.04 installer USB stick.
Thanks in advance, Hosed
EDIT Would the easiest way be this:
Boot with 14.04 Live, install Gparted, delete all partitions, then restore 7 from my backup (created with Paragon 2013 backup)?
 
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postmortemIA

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that would not be easiest way. if you have access to windows 7 dvd, you can simply boot to it and do repair installation: one of first auto repair things it tries is reinstall the boot loader. once that is done you can simply boot to windows and delete linux partition using disk management tool
 

HOSED

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Thanks for the quick response, that worked perfectly! I really appreciate the help
the only issue I have was that the USB installer for 7 did not work, I had to use this command bootsect /nt60 on it..(because it was used previously for U 14.04 and grub was still there I guess)

Thnaks DMa0991 also!
 
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dma0991

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Delete the Ubuntu partition from Windows, then restart. It should show that GRUB bootloader isn't available but if you have a Windows 7 DVD/USB that you can boot into, use bootrec /fixmbr method, then restart afterwards. The Windows 7 DVD/USB must be the same type (32bit/64bit) as the one currently installed.
 

MasterOfUsers

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Open up a command prompt in windows, type d:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt60 all with your windows 7 DVD in drive d: (change as appropriate), reboot, use diskmanager to remove the linux partition and grow your windows partition.