How do I unscrew everything?

[gazzab]

I've been trying all day to install Ubuntu.

I've got Windows 8 on my main drive and had an empty 250gb second drive. I downloaded the installer that I could run within Windows and installed Ubuntu onto the second drive using that. When I rebooted Ubuntu showed up on the Windows 8 OS choice screen, but when I clicked it a message saying something like 'try hd 2' or something along those lines showed up.

So I went back into Windows, wiped the Ubuntu drive, burned an x64 Ubuntu disk and booted it. I used the installer to format the 250gb drive to ext4 format and install Ubuntu, when it was done and rebooted, the Linux OS choice screen popped up, but when I tried to boot Ubuntu (safe mode or non) it popped up with 'Kernel panic - not syncing' then a load of other crap.

Now when I switch on my computer, I get the Linux OS choice screen come up, I click 'Windows 8' then after a while I get the Windows OS choice screen pop up (with Win8 & Ubuntu as the choices) then have to click Win8 before finally loading into Windows. I've also essentially lost that second drive because Windows can't recognise its format.

Anyway, I give up with all this and probably shouldn't have even bothered trying to install this in the first place, so now I want everything back to how it was. I'd really appreciate some help with any of this:-

1. How do I get rid of the Linux OS choice screen?
2. How do I ger rid of Ubuntu as a choice on the Windows OS choice screen and boot straight into 8?
3. How can I wipe my second drive and have it work with Windows again?

Cheers

 

[gazzab]

Cheers for the advice folks, I'll give this lot a go when I get a minute and report back may well give Ubuntu another go with just the 250gb plugged in, I'm curious to see how my linux-compatible Steam games perform on it

 

[gazzab]

I think I did things in the wrong order... I reformatted the drive in disk management, then when I restarted windows wouldn't boot. I used the command prompt from the windows disk to /fixboot /fixmbr and whatnot. Now it'll boot but spends like 5 mins on the windows loading screen beforehand.

I tried to install windows 8 on the second drive a number of times but the installation always got stuck at around the same spot, and it takes about half hour to get to that spot because the windows install disk is so ridiculously slow for some reason.

Now out of the blue my second drive won't appear in disk management or in the list of drives when installing windows from the disk. The only place it shows up now is in the BIOS.