Ubuntu Installation :: Cannot Uninstall 10.10 And Grub
Nov 4, 2010
I installed Ubuntu 10.10 along with my Windows 7 operating system. After quite a bit of trial and testing, I've decided to remove Ubuntu. I probably did this incorrectly, but I deleted the Ubuntu partition from within Windows 7 partition manager. The next time I booted the system, the computer tried booting with Grub and failed due to not finding the partition.I've since reinstalled Ubuntu just to be able to dual-boot again. How do I cleanly remove Ubuntu and the Grub boot manager?
I have a vista laptop with ubuntu installed in a partition. Obviously it installed GRUB for dual boot purposes. Now I would like to remove Ubuntu and GRUB as I intend to install Kubuntu/Mint at a later date. I understand I have to fix the master boot first and then remove ubuntu. I do not have Vista recovery CD as the it has been bundled with the system by Toshiba.
How can I uninstall grub? I have have dual boot between Gentoo and Ubuntu and I want to use the grub, that is on Gentoo partition, as its my main system. I would not care about it as it takes almost no space, but Ubuntu automatically restores its own bootscreen after updates. This is annoying... How to get rid of it?
When i turn on my laptop the dell logo comes up, and then it goes to the Windows black "grub" (i have ubuntu and 7), if i click on "Windows 7" it starts, but if i click on "Ubuntu 11.04" it goes to the nice and purple grub that we all know, and i also have two options: Ubuntu or windows. It seems stupid and pointless to have 2 grubs.Is there any way to uninstall Window's black grub so the computer will go direct to Ubuntu's purple grub?
I have my system set up to dual boot Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala and Windows XP Pro, using GRUB 2 (1.97~beta4) as the boot loader. I want to remove Ubuntu and GRUB 2 from the system and install Windows 7 in a dual boot environment with Windows XP. My concern is to be sure that in the process of removing Ubuntu I do not make my system unbootable by removing or otherwise screwing up GRUB without replacing it with the Windows boot loader.
I read a suggestion saying that the most straightforward way to do what I want is to simply install Windows 7 and, during the install process, select my current Ubuntu ext3 partition as the Windows 7 system partition. The suggestion said the Windows 7 install process would overwrite the MBR with the Windows boot loader, effectively uninstalling GRUB 2. The Windows boot loader will find the existing XP installation and give me a choice between Windows 7 and XP at boot time. Does that scenario sound right? Would it work the way I have described it? (I know I would no longer have Ubuntu. That is OK; I intend to reinstall it later.)
For what it is worth, here is my current partition layout:
i am a newbie to linux and i am stuck at the GRUB rescue prompt at the startup.i have dual boot windows and Ubntu 10.04.I want to remove GRUB2 from Harddrive itself.can u suggest ant command on GRUUB recue prompt ?
I want to uninstall Grub from my machine. I am currently using Unbuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalop 's Live CD. Please help me with these. I can't make use of windows recovery console as right now i don't have any os installed on my machine. Please help!
I have installed Kubuntu onto a 1tb portable hard drive and I always have to boot from it and grub. I want to uninstallit and go back to windows 7 that is on my built in hard drive on my hp laptop.
I'm multi-booting with Windows 7 x64 and (at least) Linux Mint. Because I hadn't yet made a backup of my MBR, when I installed Linux Mint on a logical partition, I told the installer to put GRUB on the partition instead of in the MBR. This turned out to be useless, as I need to use GRUB from a boot disk to get into the GRUB I installed. Before installing it in the MBR, I'd like to get it out of the partition, preferably without wiping and reinstalling Linux. I don't relish the prospect of going through two layers of GRUB when I want to boot Linux. How do I get it out, or what other options are available to me?
I have windows 7 home premium currently installed and I have just recently installed Linux Mint and it has replaced my MBR with GRUB. Is there any way I can restore the normal Windows 7 Boot Loader and have the secondary option to boot my Linux Mint?
I cannot uninstall Firefox, nor can I uninstall Chromium; one always stays if the other is uninstalled. For example, if I remove Firefox, Chromium will appear in its place and vice versa. This has got to be one of the weirdest bugs I've ever seen on Ubuntu! So, how can I uninstall both web browsers?
I am trying to uninstall my LAMP server and my Drupal 7 installation. Unfortunately I cannot find any instructions on uninstalling Druapl from my system. The ones that exist are far too old( < 2008 ) to be relevant. Could someone please direct me how to go about this? Note: I did not use Synaptic for installation. I downloaded the file from the drupal.org site.
My problem started with DVDrip and I mad an apt-on-cd DVD and installed from there rather than download the packages for my twop systems running karmic. I don't know what has happened but now if I try to install/upgrade/remove anything i get the following.
Code: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libevent-execflow-perl: Depends: libanyevent-perl but it is not going to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
I' trying to uninstall nicotine+ 1.2.14 with no success. I first noticed there was something wrong when everytime I install a package there was an error with nicotine+.I've tried to uninstall it many times but the setup is interrupted.Is there a way to uninstall this manually? I was using Jaunty 9.04 and recently upgrade to Karmic 9.10I'm using a Compaq Mini 311c 1020SA Netbook.
So this all started I made a video in PiTiVi and wanted to upload it to ....., that didn't go well so I looked around and found out that transmageddon is what I needed to convert the file into one acceptable for ..... and this is were it gets fun.So the install gets stuck at 58% for like 6+hours so a restart the computer boot back in it says it's not install so I try again to install it and it says blah blah it never finnished installing so I try to sudo apt-get remove transmageddon says I need to sudo dpkg --configure -a so I do then I try again
Oops@crap:~$ sudo apt-get remove transmageddon Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
I'm trying to unstall Ubuntu 10.4 in a hd from a live Cd. The problem that I have is that even though I can reach the menu screen when I select even the options Install or Use without changes the sistem shows the ubuntu logo page with the little dots below changin colors but It won't go any further.
I dual boot with XP, My upgrade to 11.04 has been two weeks of FUBAR. I want the 10.04 LTS again. With the 10.04 disk in, I get to the point of "Prepare Disk Space"; it shows XP-pro 81Gb and Ubuntu 11.04 75Gb. There I must choose side-by-side, Use Entire Disk, or Specify partitions Manually. My Question/Problem> The new 11.04 kernel seems so incompatible with my system that I wonder if I need to delete or reformat. Am I likely to have success if I just tell it to do side-by-side.
I'm afraid that if I delete the partition Ubuntu is on it'll mess up GRUB and I won't be able to boot into Windows. here's the link to what my partitions currently look like: [URL}...
In my case, getting fed up with Lucid's flaky behaviour with my particular display, having tried various solutions that were really only half-baked workarounds (the best being to install a mainline kernel) - I decided to install Peppermint Linux next to Ubuntu, thus creating a dual boot system. But I've decided I don't really like Peppermint Linux. Further, in the meantime, I've found a workaround for Lucid which (so far) seems like a longer term solution (I installed Kernel xxxx?-22, while increasing my display's refresh rate - and now all is hunky-dory - it starts perfectly, with a 'normal' visual effects desktop, and even Cheese no longer crashes the system with my old webcam).
Now here's the rub.... How to (a) uninstall Peppermint Linux (with its Grub - which was obviously set over Lucid's) (b) reclaiming the whole hard drive (it's only 40gb total - as it's an oldish machine) for Lucid - without having to reinstall Lucid, which I now have very nicely set up indeed, albeit currently squeezed for space? Is there some nice patient geek out there who can put me out of my misery with a step by step guide? I've tried Google - but everyone with a similar problem seems to want to reclaim the space for Windows!
i have an hp laptop currently dual booting ubuntu 10.04 and windows xp. i want to install windows 7 on the windows xp partition of the hard drive. to do this do i insert my win 7 disk while running xp and load the installer from there or i need to uninstall ubuntu and then reinstall it after putting win 7 on? or whats the easiest way to put win 7 on without messing up or involving the ubuntu partition?
I recently performed an online update from 9.10 to 10.4 LTS. Unfortunately, the install did not go very well because Bonager cannot be removed; hence the package system is left in an inconsistent state. Attempts to remove Bonager using apt-get does not work.
At this point, I'm thinking that I'll need to perform a fresh install, starting from scratch.
I have had ubuntu on my PC for a number of years, but its getting slower and slower so I have decided to uninstall in and maybe put xbuntu on instead, how do I get rid of it without killing my xp partition?
