Removing Ubuntu Dual Boot

hendrix

hendrix

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I'm selling my laptop to move onto bigger and better things and need to get rid of the ubuntu dual boot I'm running. It's set up as follows:
C: Windows
D: My Documents partition / Ubuntu Partitions

Is it a simple case of formatting the Ubuntu partion then using partition magic to restore D: to it's original format? *fingers crossed* If not, what must I do? I've tried looking for some examples but most of them are examples of dualbooting on 1 hard drive.

Thanks for any help
 
Yep, all you need to do is delete it. When you do this you'll end up nuking your bootloader so you should have a Windows installation CD ready so you can enter the recovery console to run the fixmbr command to rewrite the windows-only bootloader.
 
Laptop's an Acer and came with a system CD (which starts the repair) and 2 repair cd's. I believe that's all that it came with. Will the system CD do that?

Ah nuts, just realised the cd's are in Aber while i'm back home for easter. :rolleyes:
 
you can use any windows cd as long as you can get to the recovery console, then it is fixboot or fixmbr - can't remember which one but it always seems to be the one I try second
 
Wait, isn't there an option in XP that gives you a GRUB-like boot menu? I seem to recall you can use this to summon the recovery console as one of the options at boot. Rewrite the MBR then remove your Linux partition. It seems like it'd work to me. :)
 
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