Ubuntu, install failed and now I cant Uninstall

Stellios

Stellios

Stellios

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Hi guys, need a bit of advice here.

I installed ubuntu on the rig in my sig, and it mustnt have gone in right as it kept erroring on boot. Ive went into the program manager in Vista and uninstalled it, but im still getting it as a boot option on boot and its still get the 30GB I allowed it have upon install, is there any way to solve this?

Also, was it just a bad install, or does Ubuntu not like quad core CPUs or something? Its on my laptop no bother, but it doesnt like my desktop.

Cheers for any advice.
 
Boot into a live CD session and choose install. Choose "manual" in partition manager. The partition manager does all the actions you choose after you press next so don't be afraid of poking with it.

Steps:
Delete the partition you created for Ubuntu
Let it refresh
Create a partition with the available free space on point "/" with "ext3" FS
Let it refresh
Check the "format" checkbox and press next.

Let it install and see if it's all ok after that. If not maybe you got a bad iso download :<

~Jamie
 
Either that or he used the disk manager to delete that partition, in which case it is now down as unused space. In that case, he must reformat it as NTFS and then expand his C: drive back into it.
 
BillytheImpaler said:
Wait, Stellios said he uninstalled it in Vista which seems to indicate that he installed with Wubi. If so there won't be a partition to delete.

Stellios, is this the case?
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Yeah, it was installed through Vista using the option "Install inside Windows" on the disks main menu. Ive not got a clue what Wubi is so I cant verify that bit though. When the install kept erroring upon booting into Ubuntu I used the program manager on Vista to remove Linux, but its left Ubunu as a boot option on turning ont eh PC, adn its still using the 30GB ive allocated it.

Sorry about the late reply.
 
Wubi does not partition anything. It creates a filesystem within a file that's saved on the NTFS volume.

Essentially, Stellios, I'd be doing the standard Windows troubleshooting things. Reinstall it, then uninstall it again and see if it works. Beyond that you can fix the bootloader by booting the recovery console and running fixmbr. You can get that disk space back by simply deleting the relevant file.
 
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