How To Remove Unbuntu
Linux, How To Guides, Unbuntu February 25th, 2007After many happy attempts to play nice with Unbuntu I finally have thrown in the towel, but when you do that Unbuntu still keeps a tight grip on your PC. I, like so many others during installation, added Unbuntu to my bootloader as recommended. However, this posed a problem when I tried to uninstall it.
So, after a minute of Googling I downloaded the EmergencyBootCD (http://ebcd.pcministry.com), which removed the Unbuntu from my bootloader with ease.
1) Once you download this, make the ISO file and burn to a CD.
2) After the CD is made; just insert CD, reboot, change boot sequence, and fire the PC back up.
3) When the program loads choose Number One and go to MBR and that is it.
4) Shutdown and remove CD and the boot loader for Unbuntu has been removed.
Simple? Yes. Easy? Yes. The way Unbuntu should have been but was not.
February 26th, 2007 at 12:05 am
Now, now, now, i think that writer has been a windows user for about 10 years…
Comparing linux and windows is like comparing apple and orange, sure you can do it, but still they are different fruits!
AND DEATH TO THE MACS!
February 26th, 2007 at 1:32 am
very true deettee been using windows forevr. just a little disgruntle with the OS that is all, I don’t like when I can’t get something easily. Besides as of today that is all begind me i guess…just a nice article on removing the bot if you need it
March 16th, 2007 at 11:54 am
You’ve got to be kidding me. I can tell you spent a lot of time with “Unbuntu” if you can’t even spell it right. Look go back to Windows and NEVER offer your miseducated opinion on a GNU/Linux distro again.
And enjoy that Microsoft check you’re getting in the mail soon.
March 18th, 2007 at 7:10 am
LET THE FLAMEWAR BEGIN!
No seriously, everyone likes something, and hates the rest.
Me? I installed ubuntu, configured it, used it, then I figured that I need games, LOT of games, and those games that I wanted to play needed Windows, so thats my reason to go back Windows.
Oh yes, this isnt realative to this article…
March 18th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
i apologize for my comment it was st patty’s day yesterday and i was not in the right frame of mind when i wrote this… you are right deetee i am removing my comment.
May 1st, 2007 at 4:43 pm
You could have done it much easier and without downloading anything.
Just boot into Windows and run “fdisk /mbr”. That’s it.
June 5th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
An easier way would be to just boot off your Windows XP CD, go to the recovery console and run the fixmbr command. Ta-da, fixed.
October 15th, 2007 at 7:30 pm
As nino says, fdisk /mbr is the way to go. I found this out when I wanted to move my windows partition to its own disk. Now the mbr of that disk (hdb) is set to run windows. My main disk (hda) is set to run ubuntu, with no menu (wastes time). Why do this? I boot windows so seldom that it’s easiet to default to an ubuntu boot and change the BIOS to boot from hdd-1 instead of hdd-0 when I occasionally want to get into windows to play civ IV.
October 19th, 2007 at 3:11 am
“Unbuntu”… no more comments.
January 15th, 2008 at 2:14 am
I’ve installed Ubuntu on two PCs, a dual-boot with XP to try it out (of which Ubuntu promptly set itself as the default OS -without asking-), and as the sole OS on an old Compaq Windows 98-optimized computer. I recently bought some old games (nostalgia is a powerful emotion) and wanted that old ‘98 installation back, but I have had problems uninstalling Ubuntu. It won’t recognize the Win98 install disc, for one, and it refuses to uninstall itself, repeatedly asking for admin passwords and giving error messages when I enter them. So I, for one, am glad this was posted. Hopefully I’ll be playing Mechwarrior 2: TE tomorrow. Thank you, Althack.
January 16th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
“uNbuntu”? You illiterate fuck.
February 8th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Maybe you should try Ubuntu instead?
It’s actually pretty good.
February 21st, 2008 at 1:05 pm
If you couldn’t figure out Ubuntu, good luck with computers in general… your obviously not that good on them. Maybe you should take a course in common sense.