If you wish to regain your extra hard drive space you need to go to Start> Control Panel> Administrative Settings (or something like that) > Computer Management> Disks...and then remove the EXT3 partition from the drive that windows is installed from...you should then be able to format to NTFS and mount the disk as a new drive that windows can use.

 

I'll write something better with pictures at some point today. Just not now.

 

On 17/07/07, ArchLinuxUser dick_turpin <dick_turpin@archlinux.us > wrote:

On 16/07/07, Tracey Lowndes < t.lowndes@ntlworld.com> wrote:

I dual boot Windows XP SP2 on one hard drive and Ubuntu on another hard
drive.  Now I'd like to get rid of Ubuntu, as I no longer use it, and
reuse the hard drive for Windows XP. I also want to remove the GRUB boot
menu as well.

Can anyone remind me of how to do this?

Hi Tracey

Boot off the XP disc, select Recovery Console, when you get command prompt do FIXMBR that will wipe grub / fix the boot record.

Out of interest why are you giving up on Linux? (Or are you?) I can understand blitzing Ubuntu ;-) but is there not something more to your liking?
 

 

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Regards

Dick Turpin

Arch Linux is an independent i686-optimized community distribution for intermediate and advanced Linux users. Utilising a Rolling Release System packages are regularly updated and an ISO release is just a snapshot to the stable packages at that time. So there's no need for a fresh install the command 'pacman –Syu' upgrades the whole system.
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