Help uninstalling Ubuntu and removing partitions, etc.

[GSDog]

Hi.

I have given Ubuntu a good 3-4 weeks try and I really don't get on well with it. I have had tons of problems which I have spent days trying to fix with no luck.
I have tried 6.10 and 7.04 but Beryl is incredibly slow on my very high spec laptop, it keeps doing a mount check when I start Ubuntu which takes absolutely ages, I can't install my Printer drivers, etc, etc.

Anyway, I am dual-booting XP and Ubuntu at the moment and have the following partition's setup:
NTFS (Windows)
EXT3 (Shared data between Windows and Ubuntu using FS-Disk)
EXT3 (Ubuntu)
Linux Swap

and another Dell partition for mediadirect.

I would really like to remove all the EXT3 and Linux swap partitions and have one big NTFS partition for Vista, which I am going to try out.

What is the best way to do this? I have Gparted on Ubuntu but all the partitions have a padlock icon next to them and I cannot resize them.

Thanks.

 

[GSDog]

Hi.

I downloaded Gparted live CD and booted it and deleted all the Linux partition's. I restarted my PC and get a black screen saying:

GRUB loading stage 1.5.

GRUB loading, please wait...
Error 22

Any ideas?!
I can't boot into Windows or anything.

I did notice I still have some unallocated space in my partition's, not sure if this could be the problem - it's only about 70 something MB.

 

[GSDog]

Thanks, GRUB has been removed now.

Vista is installed and I love it so far. Everything went really smoothly and I find it very quick on my laptop. It looks really nice too!



EDIT:

I forgot to ask.
How do I open Run/Command in Vista?
Do I need to install DirectX? Or does it come with Vista?

 

[GSDog]

I know, I realised I asked on the wrong forum section.

Sorry!

/RUNS