I have a hard disk that I would like to completely remove UBUNTU from. There is no other OS on it. UBUNTU is on all of the HD no unused partitions that I can see or other windows system here at all. I would like to completely remove UBUNTU and remove GRUB also. and be able to use this HDD for a windows system. Most of the threads I have read here in the forum relate to removing ubuntu from a dual OS HDD . There is talk of using partition magic or other utility to remove or change the partitions,but most of them are about a dual OS system, whereas I have an HDD with only ubuntu on it. Does UBUNTU have an uninstall program that I can download? Does partition magic remove the Ubuntu OS? Grub?
Windows XP on sda1 Backtrack on sda5-6 Ubuntu 11.04 on sda7-8 Ubuntu 10.10 on sda9-10
I want to remove Ubuntu 11.04 (partitions sda7-8). I tried using GParted from Ubuntu 10.10, but it says that I have to unmount logical partitions with a number higher than the one being removed.
When I recently installed Redhat onto my system, I had 2 hard drives in it, and apparently the default usage for the two hard drive is to put them all into 1 volume, so now I have files scattered across both hard drives (with boot on /dev/sdb). LVM won't let me remove the /dev/sdb partition due to not enough room in volume or whatever. What is the easiest way to shift everything, including the boot partition, onto one hard drive so I can remove the other one without reinstalling everything?
I know this is a familiar looking question, but please hear me out.
I want to dual boot Fedora 15 with Ubuntu 11.04 (to try out GNOME Shell whilst not breaking Unity, which I quite like). As it's mostly to just to try out, I'll probably want to remove Fedora and go back to just Ubuntu, so I wan to ask how to remove the Fedora partition without doing any damage, and how to remove it from the GRUB menu at boot.
I have an Acer Aspire Netbook running a dual boot with Xp and Ubuntu Netbook Version (Lucid Lynx if I am not mistaken?) Anyway I plan on selling this netbook and I need to remove the Ubuntu Partition and go back to just a full Windows Xp partition with it's recovery partition also.
I currently have both Ubuntu 9.10 and Windows XP installed on my PC. I want to remove the Ubuntu partition and leave the Windows partition. The question that I have is that when I remove it, Grub will go with it. Will that mess up my Windows partition?
What I need to do is remove Ubuntu and add the hdd space back to the other partition. I just don't want Grub's absence to keep me from being able to load Windows.
is it possible to use a Windows-based recovery partition on a dual-boot computer to overwrite the Ubuntu partition and remove the GRUB loader? For instance, if you booted up your computer, accessed the hidden recovery partition and used it to reset the computer to it's factory default settings, would that effectively remove the Ubuntu partition and the GRUB loader? Would a completely new installation of Windows overwrite/uninstall Ubuntu and GRUB automatically?
I was just introduced to Linux official a few days ago : The problem I am having I am trying to Set up Magic Jack on Ubuntu 9.10, and I have no clue how to get it to work.
As i am posting in this forum you might already have guessed that I am a total linux noob, but I am a pretty faster learner. I know a few basic things but I feel like I am stuck with my problem.I want to send the Magic packet (wake on LAN) from my linux machine to another, but I am unsure how to approach this. I have google�ed my ass off but I am none the wiser. I found a few forums posts and programs that can do the trick and guides in how to use the programs but I have no idea how to install them.You have to know that my linux machine is a NAS server and has therefore only Konsole access (no GUI). As I said before I am pretty much a noob
I am using ascript for general users to back up usb drives to lto4 tapes.. I wish to ahve some error checking to check IF is there is a tape in the tape drive to check for the tape:
if i do a sudo mt -f /dev/st0 status i will get back a mt: /dev/st0: rmtioctl failed: Input/output error if there is no tape in the drive or sudo mt -f /dev/st0 status
What file system choices do I have for fedora 14, what is suggested and can parted magic provide that system?I am loading fedora on the second hard drive of my laptop with windows 7 and XP pro on the other hard drive and I will also be repartitioning and reformating the first hard drive because windows 7 is 64 bit and the xp is 32.
Where in Compiz we can make that. just open the windows like magic.... like this: [URL]. I search all night all compiz and I cant find where is for make this. When the windows open make this effect.
I have come across a problem on my Scientific Linux, I have searched the forum but couldn't find what I am looking for, so I decided to post my question here.well, here what I did: under the Terminal I got Cramfs-1.1.tar.gz installed, and then i used the "make" command to build the cramfsck and mkcramfs and it was all successful.so now I have an image I called it "backup.img", and I tried following command:./cramfsck -x ./output backup.imgbut unfortunetly I got the following message:./cramfsck: superblock magic not foundSo I kept on thinking what is this Superblock magic thingy? I did a google search but I kind of got lost and didn't end up finding anything useful, but I am just thinking it could be some kind of package which I need to install? I tried the following command:apt-get install magicbut it seems there is not such package exists with that name.
On Linux, is root privilege required to send a wake-on-lan magic packet? If it depends on how you send the magic packet, please let me know under what situation root is required.
I've compiled and added a kernel in Gentoo before. It doesn't seem to go quite as smoothly in Kubuntu 9.10 These are the steps I followed: I unpacked the kernel in /usr/src and ran make && make modules_install succesfully. Then I copied the kernel in arch/x86/boot/bzImage to /boot/bzImage-2.6.32 This entry is the one given by Kubuntu:
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menuentry "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-14-generic" { recordfail=1 if [ -n ${have_grubenv} ]; then save_env recordfail; fi set quiet=1
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I just read the script that update grub uses. Changed the name of the kernel from xyz to vmlinuz-2.6.32-generic and it worked.
How do I remove a partition through 9.04? I already have Gparted installed through apt-get. Removing is not a problem, the problem is how the heck do I know which partition I am using? I prevously installed 9.10 before and it went back, so i reinstalled 8.10 through my Linux Guru? friend help (see the question mark? you see why i mean by that). then I, myself, upgraded it to 9.04. When I was reinstalling 8.10, I see two partition on my hard drive, first is NTFS (window xp) and the ext4 partition (but the Live CD see it as ext3 partition). I attempted to delete the ext4 partition, it just did nothing which make me think it did something.
So I refreshed the screen and found out the ext4 is still there. So I ask my Linux Guru friend to help out. He went through custom setting to remove partition and he think he did it. and display a Welcome screen to set up my account. But my guts telling me that he didn't remove the ext4 partition. While he looking away, i went back to the partitioner screen and found out it still there. So i was like screw it and went ahead to create a new partition for 8.10 (but it shorten my Window partition which i need that for important things.) After installation, everything went ok. So i went back to my place and "sudo apt-get gparted" to bring up the GUI Parted. that where strange thing puzzled me. the Ubuntu 8.10 i am using show 50 GB filesystem, but Gparted show 60 and 70 GB ext 3 partition. I was confused how Gparted think i have more GB than what i set for. So I went to the root directory of my 8.10 then right click>proprieties to get the GB info.
Then it displayed that I have around 65GB filesystem. I was puzzled why it showing that. So i thought possible if i mount the ext4 partition and able to get the right info. But as usual, it can't mount the ext4 partition as error said but my Gparted show they both a ext3 Partition, not one of them displayed ext4. Both of them are ext3. So I remember that I give my ext4 partition more GB than my 8.10 and found one partition. But when I checked the 70GB partition properties. It said it is mounted but the 60GB one is not mounted. I was puzzled why my ext4 is mounted but my ext3 is not mounted. Again I am not using LiveCD this time. I am using my 8.10 partition and on the desktop with Gparted open. So I just decided to gamble it and tell gparted to remove the "ext3" 70GB. But error show up and said something that it cant be removed because it is mounted.
I was sitting there and wondering "how the heck did my 8.10 is using my ext4 filesystem if it can't mount it on the desktop but it can mount fine through Gparted?" I am trying to understand what is happening. The reason why i want to remove the ext4 partition, so i can give back that partition to my NTFS partition, giving back the space that my window need for my important things.Now I remember why it couldn't remove the partition. I thought it was a mount issue but I remember something. The ext4 partition is under Sda4 and sda5 while my current partition is using sda6 and sda7. So when i attempt to remove Sda4 and sda5, it said it can't remove because of the level of sda.
I am trying to reinstall ubuntu on my computer. I am now trying to create partition but I accidently created one that I do not want. Next to the name of the partition is a set of keys so I am guessing that it is locked. How do I remove that.
I want to remove my swap partition. Probably one I would have to boot into a rescue cd and remove it, but aside from that is there any other consideration or commands that I need to be aware of?
how to remove Xubuntu ? I installed it on a small partition on my Ubuntu machine just to see how it worked. I was very impressed but now I wish to remove it and maybe install on my older machine.
I have one hard drive that is partitioned: Windows7 and Ubuntu 9.04I was in windows and I removed the Ubuntu Partition from my hard drive. When I restarted my computer, it now gives me the grub rescue> prompt (unknown filesystem). I tried to run the Ubuntu Live CD to fix my problems from the command line, but it will not boot from CD giving me: "Buffer I/O error on device fd0,logical block 0)
For the short time Ubuntu was usable on my system I loved it. I used it for about 95% of my computing needs. I enjoyed messing around with the command line and learning the ins and outs of what makes an OS tick. Unfortunately I lost the GUI and have spent hours and hours over many months trying to get it back to no avail.Now, I am having boot issues and my computer is acting weird. I blame Windows for this as it is a perennial problem and the main reason I went to Ubuntu. I use my laptop, my only computer, for work and any downtime, like loosing the GUI, really screws my world up. So, I am going to remove Ubuntu from this machine.
How do I do this? Can I just go to Windows and remove the partition? What about the Grub? This is my main concern as I get ulcers and flop sweats when my computer doesn't boot up.
I am trying to reinstall ubuntu on my computer. I am now trying to create partition but I accidently created one that I do not want. Next to the name of the partition is a set of keys so I am guessing that it is locked. How do I remove that.
The name pretty much says it all. I have an old XP machine that I threw Heron on to play around with. I know have karmic running standalone on a different machine, and would like to get my whole hdd back on XP.
I've found some tips saying just load an xp disc and fixmbr from recovery console, but those posts are both old, and seem to cause as many problems for the people who tried it as fixed it.
Was wondering if there's been a better way developed to remove ubuntu and get my whole hard drive back for windows?
I'm trying to create a bootable HFS+ partition. I've succeeded in creating the HFS+ partition in Windows using Mac Drive 8, but need to set the partition to "Active" to be able to install an OS on it. The issue lies that when I try to set it to active in windows disk management it tells me that the media has been write protected by Mac Drive. I want to either set the partition as active (or at least disable write protection to allow me to set it as active in windows) or find another means of creating an HFS+ partition, which I know gparted claims to do but I can't manage to enable it. I'm currently running Windows 7 but I have Ubuntu 9.04 Live CD to use if necessary.
Anyone can show/tell or direct me to a guide to removing Windows 7 off my other partition? I'd just prefer to have Ubuntu 10.4 on the entire HD instead of dual booting. I came here so I didn't have to reinstall and wipe the entire HD to do so. Pretty sure there's a way to wipe 7 off the other side and update GRUB to only detect ubuntu.
I have windows xp on dual boot, however I do not use it anymore also something happened to the boot sector so now it wont work. I want to remove it so that I can have ubuntu reclaim the partition and have grub removed from startup. How does one do this?
I have recently decided to switch to linux as my primary OS. I currently have Windows XP installed on the larger partition on my machine. Is there a way that I can delete the XP partition, or at least re-allocate the majority of my space over to the Ubuntu side without reinstalling?
I was trying to remove my windows partition using the live CD. While Windows no longer works on my system, GParted shows that I still have 40 gb of unallocated space. Have I not properly occupied the space left after I removed the Windows partition.
