the situation is, i installed ubuntu just to check it out. after installation i decided i like it and i now want to remove my windows OS. how could i do it? ive been all around google trying to find some solution. is there some way to remove the windows OS without completely installing ubuntu again?
View 3 RepliesI just installed Ubuntu from Windows using wubi.exe.
Now, i wanted to remove windows from my system completely, and clean my startup.
My startup currently shows me the options Windows 7 and Ubuntu.
I'm thinking of installing Ubuntu, but before I do that I'd like to know if installing it removes your copy of Windows. If it does, is there any way I can work around that?
View 1 Replies View Relatedinstalling ubuntu onto a windows system without erasing windows. I know there is wubi, but I ask you whether also with the ubuntu live cd I am able to install ubuntu, into a separate partition, without erasing windows.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am trying to install APR to get Apache2 working, but configure script always fails with:rm: cannot remove `libtoolT': No such file or directoryI have googled around and didn't find any useful solution, although many people seemed to have same problem.Is there something I am missing?(When I try to install apr-utils (what is another package needed for apache), it fails with no APR installed. (or I must specify it's lo
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Now that seems odd to me. Am I ok to proceed or will I be left without a desktop? Following advice in an earlier thread, I pointed my sources.list at testing to move to a rolling distro; having installed squeeze beta 2, I'm wondering if using testing is what is causing this?
After installing Jessie, apt-get gives me a huge list of packages with the suggestion to autoremove them. Now, I've tried auto-remove once and was left with a naked Gnome, so I was wondering if there's another way to find out which packages I should keep and which I can safely remove. Is it safe to delete packages that cannot be found using the search function for the stable release? I checked them one by one here URL....How about linux images that won't appear in the above search?
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I have a dual boot system with Win XP and Ubuntu 9.10.My problem is, that I am not able to start Ubuntu anymore, it fails to boot.
Actually I don't intend to repair it, instead I would like to remove it and free up the space used by the ubuntu partition on my hard drive.i want to save some of my files kept in the linux filesystem, but I can live without them if that is not possible.
I installed ubuntu 11.04 using wubi now I want to get rid of windows how do I do this?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have Windows XP installed in C: drive. C: - 80 GB NTFS And I have installed Ubuntu inside windows in E: drive with 15GB disk E : - 80 GB I have data inside E: drive 60GB
Now I need to remove windows and Move Ubuntu to the C: Drive then Expand the Ubuntu to 80GB..
How to do this ?
I want to keep only ubuntu OS and remove installed windows 7
View 5 Replies View RelatedFor 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.
My sister isn't using Ubuntu on her netbook (that was me that used it), but it fell out of use on it. So I figured that its time to remove it. So my question is: how would I go about removing Ubuntu 9.10 from an Ubuntu/Windows XP dual boot?
View 6 Replies View RelatedCurrently I dual boot windows XP and ubuntu 9.10. However, I am quite happy about my Ubuntu installation and I am starting to think about my windows xp install as a waste of hard drive space.I wonder what's the best way to remove the windows xp install.I have 3 partitions, windows being the first, ubuntu being the second and the third being ubuntu's swap.I am not familiarized with the way the grub bootloader works so I am worried about breaking it if I just remove the first (winxp) partition via gparted and expand the second (ubuntu 9.10) fill the empty space.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI want to move from Wubi to the full thing, but i have no removable media devices.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have windows XP on one disk, I added another disk and I installed UBuntu 9.10 on it. I wish to temporarily remove the ubuntu disk, however grub cannot load unless that disk is connected. It appears that grub has got to the windows disk and my system was booting from there. I wish to remove grub from all disks, (or at least the windows disk). I tried removing it from the synaptic package manager, but it's still there (but it looks different, maybe another version loaded or something). I'd like to just be able to boot from either disk using my bios boot menu.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have been using Ubuntu Wubi for a few weeks now and am quite happy with it, and I am not missing Windows 7. This is not my first contact with Linux OS. In fact I have tinkled with Red Hat, SuSe and Fedora quite a few years back but never pursued them seriously as I found them difficult to use. Many people seem to be saying that "if you want to uninstall Ubuntu, just go to Windows Control Panel and uninstall Wubi like you would any other application and it will remove Wubi " But what if I wanted to uninstall Windows 7 and leave Ubuntu on the hard disk? Would I need to start from square one and re-install Ubuntu again?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have been dealing with this all day! I cannot remove Ubuntu and recover the free space for Windows. When I remove Ubuntu, I can't access Windows.
I have three partitions, one being the main Windows partition and two with no names being the ubuntu partitions.
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.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI had Windows. Installed Linux 10.04 over it. I want to switch back to Windows. When I pop in my Windows XP disc I get and error after it loads a bunch of stuff. I tried booting from m 10.04 disc, going into Disk Utility and changing the file system to NTFS no luck. Tried burning another copy of XP and still same error. Now I burned a copy of Windows 7(desperate times call for desperate measures) but its on a DVD-R instead of a CD-R and every time I try to boot it, Linux just boots.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have my current computer set up with 2 HDDs in it. A 500GB with GRUB and Windows 7 on it and a 160GB HDD with Ubuntu on it.
I would like to someone replace Windows 7 with Ubuntu on the 500GB drive, but I'm not sure how I would be able to do this and still keep GRUB and such .
EDIT: I'd like to do this without re-installing anything.
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?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI recentely installed ubuntu to my second hard disk (on the first i had windows 7 and data), but the hard disk that i installed ubuntu on broke, so i had to trash it. The problem is that i have an external disk reader that is only bootable after i booted at least once into windows. So basically i can't boot using either Windows or Linux disks, nor can i boot into the os itself. When i start the computer i get something like device not fount and a long code, then a prompt shows up (Rescue GRUB). What do i need to type here to remove grub and be able to boot into windows?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI 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.
View 8 Replies View RelatedSup Ubuntu forums, before I begin I would like to say that I do indeed thoroughly enjoy Linux, especially Ubuntu. and I do intend on coming back to it later on down the road.
Okay, so what I want to do is completely remove Ubuntu and the Grub Bootloader and install the Windows Bootloader but I am not so sure how to accomplish said task. I bought my laptop with Ubuntu 10.04 installed on it and have since then updated to 11.04. I don't believe windows was previously installed on the laptop but I could be wrong.
I have a Ubuntu 11.04 Live CD, a Windows 7 Ultimate Installation CD, and a Windows 7 Recovery CD.
I have heard that you can remove all the necessary partitions that have Ubuntu/Grub in them through the Ubuntu Installation process but I am not sure which partitions to remove.
When I install wine the add/remove program wants to install both 86_64 and i686 files. I have the x86_64 version of Fedora 14. I am having problems with counterstrike and have installed it using Wine, have noted problems when both types of files are installed.
I would like to have Fedora set up just right but as with all Linux distros, am having trouble keeping my head above water with fc14. I have success up to a point and then want to go back to Windows for its simplicity. Just this wine problem
i installed two operating systems windows and fedora.first i installed windows then fedora.now i want remove windows from my system.how to remove windows.
View 3 Replies View RelatedIve installed a fresh copy of ubuntu onto my laptop, dual boot with 7. Everything runs smoothly except the grub. So in grub i have an entry of vista loader. I have removed the ubuntu recovery mode and the memtest entry so now i have 3 entries
Ubuntu
vista loader
7 loader
How i can remove the vista loader? PS i have never had installed vista onto my system i bought it brandy new with 7 pre-installed.
My desktop has been running both windows and ubuntu for a couple of months via wubi. The plan is to eventually migrate fully to ubuntu though. Simple question, I hope, is it easy to effectively remove the windows side so that I don't have to make a new reinstall of ubuntu from scratch?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am running 10.10 and I can't figure out how to move or remove the windows list... all other items I can select and move or remove normally. also, if I try and start "panel" from the menu it starts to open but then quits.
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