On 03/05/13 11:54, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
Hi geniuses :-)
I have a laptop that I purchased with Windows XP installed on it. I installed Ubuntu on it, and then migrated that to Lubuntu, but there's still Windows on a partition of it's own, and it still boots. I'm thinking about giving this machine to my kid who doesn't need linux, just windows.
Is it possible to uninstall Linux and get the copy of Windows to boot correctly again. The problem is I don't have the windows install disk, so I'm reliant on any windows programs that may be installed on the disk, or any genuine tools that may help - I don't want to download a dodgy copy of Windows to do it!
Afaik, if I just format the linux partitions, it will remove most of the initial boot loader, and then it won't boot windows any more. I'm using Grub btw - the old version (V1.??)
Has anyone done this before or have any ideas?
If you can get into Windows - can you set the relevant partition to be bootable - you can just run 'fdisk /mbr' to wipe out the boot partition and restore it to Windows only.
You can then use Windows to format the linux partition(s).
Well, that's how I would do it ;-)