Hey I currently have Ubuntu installed on one of my PC's, and it's the only operating system on the PC, and was wondering how do I take off Ubuntu and install Windows XP to it? Whenever I try to install Windows XP it gives me some error that it can't find the right volume drive on my hard drive or something, so I'm guessing since the hard drive is set up for Linux or whatever Windows can't recognize it. If anyone can help me on removing Ubuntu and installing Windows XP I'd appreciate it.
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Jump to PostWhen you uninstall Ubuntu you don't take off the grub. http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-how-to-uninstall-grub/ has some examples.
AFAIK, you just need use a Windows XP CD, put in repair mode and use fixboot e fixmbr commands, …
Jump to PostYou can run
fdisk /mbr
from the XP installation CD and remove the partitions and master boot record as Asafe was mentioning. There is no need to pull your hard drive unless you want to.
Jump to PostIf I only have Ubuntu on my computer and nothing else does that mean I even have a partition? Because I've never resized the hard drive or partitioned the hard drive or anything like that on that computer.
Of course you have a partition. You installed Ubuntu into one or …
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